Modeling particulate charging in ESPs

Abstract

In electrostatic precipitators there is a strong interaction between the particulate space charge and the operating voltage and current of an electrical section. Calculating either the space charge or the operating point when the other is fixed is not difficult, but calculating both self-consistently is much more difficult. A method is proposed that makes the problem straightforward. An iterative solution is required, but the closure rate should be acceptable.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>