Activated Carbon-Coated Electrode and Insulating Partition for Improved Dust Removal Performance in Electrostatic Precipitators

Abstract

The dust removal performance of two types of modified electrode electrostatic precipitator systems was evaluated and compared with that of a conventional aluminum plate electrode using laboratory-scale experiments. In the novel electrode systems, the electrode surface was coated with activated carbon using a mixed slurry containing carbon black, polyvinyl acetate, and methanol. The modification of the electrode surface improved dust precipitation by increasing the specific capacitance of the electrode. The modification also lowered the electrode's resistance and increased its specific surface area. The optimum electrode spacing and electric voltage supply were determined using batchtype tests. In addition, dielectric insulators were applied as a partition between the oppositely charged electrodes equipped with the modified electrode plates. Multilayered office paper cut to the same size as the electrodes was used as an insulating material. The addition of the insulator resulted in excellent improvement in the dust removal performance by minimizing the back-corona discharge phenomenon as well as doubling the dust collecting surface. Continuous dust removal tests with the three electrode systems revealed that whereas the conventional aluminum electrode exhibited 54 % dust removal, the activated carbon (AC)-coated system showed 85 % and AC-coated + insulator system showed 90 % and higher dust removal efficiency.

Parallelly Aligned, Activated Carbon Coated Plates Operating as Adsorption Columns for Removing VOCs

“…The size of each ACP specimen was 135 mm x 45 mm. This method was adapted from 121 Kim et al (2015) with slight modification. This technology has advantages in that the solvent is 122 sufficiently contained in the pores because it uses a relatively low molecular weight ethanol, 123 which later is completely evaporated, enabling the pore characteristics to be maintained during 124 the immobilization process.…”