Abstract:
A high-efficiency electrostatic air filter device having high dust collecting efficiency and a long service life is provided. The device is composed of a charging section for electrically charging the dust particles in a gas to be treated, and a dust collecting section provided with a filter medium meandering in the direction orthogonal to the direction of passage of the gas to be treated, a plurality of separator electrodes disposed in the spaces between every adjoining part of said meandering filter medium with or without the medium of insulating spacers from both upstream side and downstream side of said filter medium, and electroconductive elements provided for effectively supplying a high DC voltage between said separator electrodes.
Abstract:
In a device for electrically charging particles, a pair of parallel plasma generators are spaced from one another, each of the generators having corona discharge electrodes. A main field forming source of high AC voltage is connected between the plasma generators, to form a main field in the charging space, and intermittently operating corona generating high voltage power sources are coupled to apply high voltages to the respective corona discharge electrodes only when the plasma generators have relative specific polarity, whereby only particles of one polarity are driven into the charging space. The intermittent corona generating high voltage source has a frequency equal to or greater than the frequency of the AC voltage which provides the main AC field.
Abstract:
An improved electrostatic powder painting apparatus is described herein, in which in the vicinity of a discharge electrode disposed in opposition to a body to be painted there is separately provided a driving electrode, for establishment of a driving electric field. The generation of a mono-polar ion current is achieved by said discharge electrode, so that the driving electric field and the ion current density may be controlled quite independently of each other, whereby generation of inverse ionization can be prevented perfectly, while a maximum amount of electric charge can be given to paint powders and a maximum driving force is acted upon said paint powders.
Abstract:
A particle charging device is herein disclosed in which discharge electrodes and opposite electrodes are disposed in an opposed relationship, third electrodes being provided in the proximity of each said discharge electrode, and there are provided a high voltage source for applying a periodically varying high voltage between said discharge electrodes and said third electrodes, a D.C. voltage source for applying a D.C. bias voltage between the above described electrodes, and a D.C. high voltage source for applying a D.C. high voltage between said third electrodes and said opposite electrodes, whereby during the periods when the periodically varying high voltage is not applied between said discharge electrodes and said third electrodes, D.C. corona discharge originating from said discharge electrodes may be always suppressed. Also an electric dust collecting apparatus making use of said particle charging device is disclosed herein.
Abstract:
Apparatus for removing dust from a gas stream comprises a duct with an inlet at its top, a hopper spaced beneath the inlet, and a lateral outlet at a level between inlet and hopper. Gas flowing from inlet to outlet must traverse a vertically extending filter comprising elongated parallel electrodes laterally spaced from one another at small intervals. Each electrode is connected with a terminal of an alternating voltage source different from that with which its adjacent electrodes are connected. The constantly varying alternating electric fields at the filter repel particles so that they fall into the hopper.
Abstract:
A method of reducing a nitrogen oxide content in gas is disclosed. In this method, subject gas containing nitrogen oxide is supplied to a gas passage of a surface discharger to decompose the nitrogen oxide content in the gas into nitrogen gas.
Abstract:
An electric field device is obtained by the steps of employing a highly pure and mechanically electrically chemically and thermally extremely durable ceramic material, such as a high purity alumina porcelain, as a dielectric material, disposing electrodes on the shaped material before sintering by a thick film printing technique, such as screen printing, with a dispersion ink of finely divided metal, e.g. tungsten, and sintering the shaped material integrally with the electrodes. The product is extremely dense, mechanically electrically chemically and thermally durable and highly reliable.
Abstract:
In the known electrical mobility analyzer, a novel means for charged particle detection instead of measuring the low level current carried by the particles is provided. This detection is based on the burst corona occuring from a positive corona electrode applied with a voltage slightly lower than its onset voltage at an instant when a negatively charged particle arrives at the tip of the corona electrode. This detection detects and counts the burst corona pulses produced by the particles negatively precharged.
Abstract:
A pulse power supply for generating extremely short pulse high voltages comprizing an ac charging high voltage, rectifier, pulse forming unit as a capacitive energy storage element, and an externally-controlled high speed synchronous switching unit, such as a mechanical synchronous spark switch of rotating type. The capacitive energy storage element, i.e. condenser is charged up by the ac charging high voltage source from zero voltage to its peak voltage through the rectifier without the use of current limiting resistance during its half cycle or desired polarity, i.e. negative one. Then, this charged potential of the capacitive element is kept, with the blocking action of the rectifier, until a desired instant of the next half cycle when the said switching unit is triggered from outside, e.g. by rotation of the rotor disc carrying the spark electrode elements, and the very short pulse high voltages are produced at this instant at the output of this pulse power supply. This charging scheme by an ac charging voltage altering from zero to its peak reduces greatly the power loss in the charging process of the capacitive element. The switching of the charged capacitive element to the load in the next half cycle when the rectifier is blocking avoid the short-circuit current to flow from the arc charging voltage source to the load, making the production of the pulse voltage stable and use of a large protective resistance unecessary.
Abstract:
A plurality of wire-shaped electrodes are arrayed at equal intervals within a plane insulator layer, and an electric power source for applying an A.C. voltage between adjacent ones of electrodes is connected to the electrodes via protective resistors so that an electric field in a curtain form is established between respective electrodes. The resistance value of the protective resistors between the electric power source and the electrodes and the resistance of the electrodes themselves are respectively selected higher than a minimum A.C. ignition resistance that is necessary for preventing ignition by spark discharge of powder to be processed by the curtain-like electric field. This prevents powder explosion induced by a spark discharge caused by a fault occurring in one part of the electric field curtain.