Electrical Characteristics of Duct Electrostatic Precipitators as Influenced by Bundled Discharge Electrodes

Abstract

In this paper, the electrical parameters of the duct electrostatic precipitators with bundle wires, as discharge electrodes, are calculated and reported. Variation of mobility for both ions and particles in the space surrounding the energized subwires is taken into consideration. The method used is based on numerically solving the main set of equations, defining the ionized field surrounding the subwires of the bundle wire‐duct electrostatic precipitators (BWDEP) with the presence of dust particles. This method predicts the electrical performance in the BWDEP irrespective of the number of subwires per bundle. The corona onset voltage around the periphery of each subwire of the bundled discharge electrodes of the duct electrostatic precipitators is determined. It changes from point to point at the subwire surface. The effects of different numbers of subwires per bundled electrode, as well as the subwires arrangement, on the electrical performance of the BWDEP are also reported and discussed in this paper. The present findings are correlated to the physics of the electrical corona discharge.