Abstract:
A filter assembly particularly useful in electronically enhanced air cleaning systems including a fibrous filter media. A conductive electrode is affixed to the fibrous filter media, so that the conductive electrode makes physical contact to the fibrous filter media in a plurality of substantially planar locations. The conductive electrode is coupled to a potential that enables neutralizing charge that accumulates on the filter media during operation to be removed thereby maintaining high efficiency.
Abstract:
An air purifier has a simply manufactured and assembled ionizer, which improves the charging efficiency for dust particles using multi-directional discharge and prevents electrical accidents. The air purifier includes an ionizer and a collector. The ionizer includes a first electrode and at least two second electrodes, the first electrode having at least two hollow, semi-cylindrically shaped electrodes, the at least two electrodes being connected successively and in parallel so that the first electrode has a corrugated shape, and the at least two second electrodes are positioned at inner spaces defined by the hollow semi-cylindrically shaped electrodes, respectively. The collector is electrically charged with a polarity opposite to a polarity of charged dust particles.
Abstract:
In an ionizer of an exhaust gas ionization system for ionizing moisture-laden gases in a channel comprising a nozzle plate having circular nozzle openings through which the gases are conducted, a high voltage electrode support grid arranged downstream of the nozzle plate and having electrode pins extending toward the nozzle openings and carrying at their free ends star structures with a number of tips projecting radially toward the circumference of the nozzle openings and being electrically charged for ionizing the moisture laden gases flowing through the nozzle openings past the star structures, the nozzle openings are sufficiently large to cause the gas flow to be slow enough to permit water to flow down along the walls of the nozzle openings against the upward flow of the gases through the nozzle openings.
Abstract:
The invention concerns an electrostatic ionic emission device (1) for depositing on the surface (sp) of a plurality of particles (p1, p2, pn) aerosols within a fluid (F), a quasi-homogeneous amount of ions (Iq). The device (1) comprises a discharge corona conductive electrode (EC), and a non-corona conductive receptor electrode (ER). The pseudo-planar active surface (SA) of its receptor electrode (ER) is covered with a quasi-uniformly distributed plurality of sharp-edged craters, enclosed by a pseudo-circle, having on their end edges (Ai) a section with minimum bend radius, and enclosing orifices (O1, O2, On), emerging outwards of the active surface (SA). Said sharp-edged craters are quasi-uniformly distributed on the active surface (SA), in both its geometrical directions. The surface flow of ions (Iq) derived from the corona electrode (EC) towards the active surface of the receptor electrode (ER) has increased homogeneity. Preferably, the receptor electrode (ER) is produced by means of an array (R′xyz) of metal fins.
Abstract:
A collecting device for collecting suspended particles includes a mobility analysis device; a collecting container connected to an outlet of the mobility analysis device; a discharge electrode disposed inside the collecting container for charging the particles inside the collecting container by generating single polar ions; and a collecting electrode for collecting the charged particles inside the collecting container by an electric potential difference relative to the discharge electrode. In the mobility analysis device, the particles are charged and guided into a flow path. An electric field is created in the flow path, and the particles are guided into the path perpendicular to the electric field. Since a mobility of a particle in an electric field depends on a size of the particle, the particles guided in the path are separated according to the electric field, thereby obtaining particles with sizes in a specific range.
Abstract:
An electrical type grid electrostatic collector/separator removes particles from an air stream. The apparatus includes multiple parallel grids that act as the porous material, enclosed in a sealed compartment so that the entrained air flows parallel and between one or more centrally located grids. A direct current high voltage field is established between the grids with the polarities alternating between facing grids. The system is preferably used for conductive and semi-conductive materials because of the ease at which the particles can receive an induced charge. The charged particles are separated and collected when they are attracted toward the relatively open wire or woven grids and pass laterally through and onto the next attracting grid until they are out of the air stream and generally fall by gravity to the collection vessel. When non-conductive particles are present, external methods of pre-charging by corona discharge are preferably used. When non-conductive particles are present, both internal and external methods of pre-charging by corona discharge are used with the external method being preferred.
Abstract:
An air filtration system according to the present invention includes an enclosure having a floor section, a top section and an opening. A ventilation subsystem within the enclosure includes an air duct having an air intake and an exhaust vent. First and second electrode arrays are positioned with in the air duct so that the first array is located between the air intake and the second array and the second array is located between the exhaust vent and the first array. A voltage regulator is electrically coupled to the first and second electrode arrays to apply a voltage differential between the electrode arrays that creates an air flow within the air duct drawing air into the air intake and out of the exhaust vent. Airborne particulate matter carried through the air duct collects on the second electrode array. The exhaust vent is positioned over the opening to the enclosure so that the exhaust air traverses the opening to create an air curtain barrier that at least partially prevents airborne particulate matter from escaping the interior of the enclosure. Furthermore, air that exits the exhaust vent is eventually recirculated into the air intake to minimize the concentration of airborne particulate matter.
Abstract:
An air purifier has a simply manufactured and assembled ionizer, which increases the charging efficiency for dust particles through maximally increased discharge spaces and prevents electrical accidents. The air purifier includes an ionizer and a collector. The ionizer includes two ground electrode units and at least one discharge electrode, the two ground electrode units each having one or more electrodes, each formed in a hollow semi-cylindrical shape, the two ground electrode units being joined to face each other, the at least one discharge electrode being placed in spaces formed between the hollow semi-cylindrically shaped electrodes of the joined ground electrode units, thus charging dust particles passing through the spaces between the hollow semi-cylindrically shaped electrodes. The collector is electrically charged with a polarity opposite to a polarity of the charged dust particles.
Abstract:
An electrostatic precipitator with an inlet and outlet duct having corona forming discharge electrodes to ionize the particulate in the gas stream, and multi-lateral stages of collecting zones to collect particulate from the gas stream by impingement and polarity action. The collecting zones are isolated from the flowing gas so the collected particulate can fall away from the gas stream and avoid intermixing with the gas during the normal cycle of operation and during rapping, to minimize particulate re-entrainment. An improved system of balancing the gas stream as it enters the precipitator and during the course of movement through the collecting zones includes flow dividers located between the edges of the collecting electrodes and movable downstream to provide larger flow openings and movable upstream to provide smaller flow openings, thus producing desired flow control. The flow dividers can be set in desired position by making an adjustment at attaching brackets either locally or by remote control through a bell-crank linkage. These features produce uniform flow and gas cleaning through all collecting zones.
Abstract:
An electric dust collector apparatus is disclosed herein; which comprises an inlet port for dust-containing gas, a main body duct of said electric dust collector, an outlet port for clean gas, and an exhaust port for collected dust; a plurality of channel-shaped collector electrodes disposed at an equal interval and in parallel to each other along a plane transverse of a gas flow within the main body duct with their opening directed to an upstream side; a plurality of channel-shaped driver electrodes disposed upstream of said collector electrodes at an equal interval, along a plane transverse of the gas flow within the main body duct in a staggered relationship to said respective collector electrodes, in parallel to each other and to said collector electrodes and as insulated from said collector electrodes with their openings directed to a downstream side; a plurality of corona discharge electrodes disposed midway between adjacent ones of said driver electrodes in parallel thereto and opposed to inner surfaces of the openings of said collector electrodes in parallel thereto, as insulated from both said driver and collector electrodes; a D.C. high voltage source for applying a D.C. high voltage between said driver electrodes and said collector electrodes; a variable D.C. high voltage source for applying a D.C. high voltage having a variable voltage value between said corona discharge electrodes and said driver electrodes, and/or a variable, periodically varying, high voltage source for applying a periodically varying high voltage, whose peak value and/or period are variable, between said corona discharge electrodes and said driver electrodes; and hammering means for applying mechanical impacts to said collector electrodes, driver electrodes and corona discharge electrodes.