Effect of ambient humidity on the outcome of electrostatic separation processes

Conference Record - IAS Annual Meeting (IEEE Industry Applications Society)

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages 1947-1953

  Dascalescu, Lucian ^a   Mihalcioiu, Adrian ^a   Tilmatine, Amar ^b   Medles, Karim ^b   Samuila, Adrian ^a  

^a University Institute of Technology   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIDI BEL ABBES   (Algeria)

Author keywords

Electrostatic separation; Experimental design; Relative humidity; Robustness

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ELECTRIC WIRE; ELECTRODES; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; LOGIC DESIGN; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

CORONA ELECTRODES; ELECTROSTATIC SEPARATION PROCESS; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; GRANULE SIZE;

ELECTROSTATIC SEPARATORS;

EID: 10944244331     PISSN: 01972618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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