Controlling particle trajectory in free-fall electrostatic separators

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1038-1044

  Calin, Laur ^a,b   Mihalcioiu, Adrian ^a,b,c   Das, Subhankar ^b,d   Neamtu, Vasile ^a   Dragan, Ciprian ^a,b   Dascalescu, Lucian ^b   Iuga, Alexandru ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CLUJ NAPOCA   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^c TOYOHASHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^d General Electric Company India   (India)

Author keywords

Electrostatic processes; Numerical simulation; Particle trajectory; Triboelectrostatic separator

Indexed keywords

CONCURRENCY CONTROL; DC GENERATORS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTRODES; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROSTATIC SEPARATORS; ELECTROSTATICS; FLUIDIZATION; MATLAB; METALLIZING; SEPARATION; STANDARDS; TRAJECTORIES; WEIGHT CONTROL;

AND RECOVERY; CONTROL FACTORS; ELECTRODE LENGTHS; ELECTROSTATIC PROCESSES; ELECTROSTATIC SEPARATION PROCESS; FREE-FALL; GEOMETRICAL DATA; HIGH VOLTAGES; INITIAL VELOCITIES; INPUT VARIABLES; INTER-ELECTRODE SPACING; INTERELECTRODE; NUMERICAL MODELLING; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PARAMETRIC EQUATIONS; PARTICLE CHARGING; PARTICLE TRAJECTORIES; PARTICLE TRAJECTORY; POINT CO ORDINATES; TRIBOELECTROSTATIC SEPARATOR;

SEPARATORS;

EID: 49249137328     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2008.926690     Document Type: Article

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