Performance analysis of a small-scale electrostatic precipitator with biomass combustion

Coagulation contributing to electrostatic precipitation of ultrafine fly ash from small-scale biomass combustions

“…The authors believe that the discrepancy between the measured and calculated efficiencies of electrostatic precipitation encountered in the practice of the authors and other researchers [73] can be explained not only by measurement inaccuracies but also by coagulation enhancements in energised ESPs.…”

Green Energy Transition Using Torrefied and Treated Biomass in Indian Thermal Power Plants

“…There is not much experience available about the behavior of biomass ash in electrostatic precipitators (EP), which is critical as biomass ash has vastly different types of ash particles. The literature points out (reference) that biomass ash may contain particles of sub-1-micron size whose charging mechanism may not be adequate to precipitate them in the EP [36]. The efficiency of the EP in terms of the number of particles may decrease, while it may not be affected in terms of mass.…”