Abstract:
Device for the precipitation of carbon particles present in exhaust gases having a voltage generator whose poles are connected with at least one electrode and the shell comprising separate internal zones where the following phenomena take place mixing of exhaust gas with air in a first zone, ionization in a second zone of the gas & air mixture coming from said first zone, ignition and precipitation in a third zone of said carbon particles present in said gas & air mixture coming from said second zone, and exhaust of the gas in which said carbon particles have been precipitated.
Abstract:
An electrostatic precipitator assembly is disclosed. The assembly includes a tubular collector and an electrode suspended therein. The electrode includes a substantially cylindrical collector portion and a charging portion which includes a rod and a charging disk, wherein the gap between the charging disk and the collector is at least as great as the gap between the collector portion of the electrode and the collector.
Abstract:
In an assembly incorporating a suspension device and a rapping mechanism for vertically mounted electrodes of a high-voltage supplied electrostatic precipitator, discharge electrodes (9) are suspended from horizontal frame tubes (8'), which are in turn connected to vertical frame tubes (5) having an upper, rod-shaped portion (12). The portion (12) of each of the frame tubes (5) is mounted in vertically aligned holes (14) in the legs of U-shaped support irons (4) attached to the carrier beams (1), which are in turn suspended from the roof of the precipitator housing via carrier rods (3). The upward facing end surface of the portion (12) serves as an abutment for a drop hammer (13) which causes rapping of the electrodes.
Abstract:
A device for removing soot particles from exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine includes an electrical filter having a tubular housing and a central electrode in the form of a cylindrical shell coaxially arranged in the filter housing. The cylindrical shell is supported at its ends by insulators and is provided with a plurality of juxtaposed discharge points. The wall thickness of the cylindrical shell is about 0.05 mm and the discharge points are cut out in the wall of the cylindrical shell and being bent in radial direction toward the inner wall of the filter housing. The sides of the segments connecting the discharge points are oriented in the direction of the center axis of the electrode.
Abstract:
A discharge electrode and discharge electrode assembly having longer more reliable service life than conventional tensioned wires wherein the electrode is categorized as rigid because its mechanical behavior more closely resembles that of a structural beam than a wire of equal length and the electrode in the preferred embodiment has a flattened ellipsoidal configuration with corona members projecting substantially along a plane passing through the long axis of the ellipsoidal electrode.
Abstract:
Apparatus for charging and collecting submicron particles. The particles are charged by a needle-to-plate ionizer having offset rows of needles which are spaced from the plate such that voltage gradients of 6 KV/cm and higher are achieved. Needle-to-needle spacing and effective area of the plate are such that a corona current having a density of at least 4 ma/m.sup.2 flows between the needles and the plate. Charged particles are collected in a collecting section having a deflector electrode and a pair of collecting plates. The deflector electrode includes a conductor embedded in a dielectric material having a dielectric constant greater than 1, which dielectric material suppresses arcs between the deflector electrode and the collecting plates. Baffles are provided to collect efficiently and with low pressure drop those charged submicron particles not collected on the collecting plates.
Abstract:
A apparatus for controlling the amount of polluting substances within a fluid such as the exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine, wherein the polluted fluid passes through a corona-producing chamber having spaced conductive members biased by an alternating electrical potential which effect elimination or conversion of the harmful substances within the exhaust through a series of chemical reactions. Prior to passing through the corona-producing chamber, the exhaust gas is mixed with air or other oxygen containing substance to create an ozone field and other chemical reactants within the chamber to reduce the amount of various contaminants of the polluted gas. The corona-producing member is provided with a plurality of corona-emitting elements which cause an intense corona discharge to occur within the chamber.
Abstract:
An ionizing electrode for the generation of a corona discharge in an electrostatic dust-collecting precipitator comprising an elongated metallic body provided with spaced-apart pointed tips, and a layer of nylon-11 material covering the body and having a thickness of 100 to 300 microns, preferably 150 to 250 microns. The electrostatic precipitator has an operating temperature of at most 140.degree. and preferably less than 120.degree.C.