{"title":"Effect of electrode design and dust particle size on electrodynamics dust shield procedure","authors":"Sepideh Saeidpour , Bahram Khoshnevisan , Zohreh Boroumand , Nahid Ahmady","doi":"10.1016/j.physo.2022.100131","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In order to reduce water consumption (especially in remote areas) for the self-cleaning dust removal systems, the efficiency of a three-phase traveling electromagnetics wave for some designed Electrodynamics Dust Shield (EDS) setups are simulated and also experimentally tested. The designed Fresnel rings electrodes EDS system showed about 25% enhancement on light collecting power and a substantial improvement on dust removal efficiency, as well. On the other hand, for the fabricated EDS systems the dust removal efficiency has been tested as a function of the dust particle size, respectively. In this study, the removal dust particles has been sampled from three different Iran's desserts with a vast size ranges, which matches with many of the remote areas in the world. It was confirmed that the sweeping frequency range from 5 to 100 Hz improved the cleaning efficiency and also the sweeping time lasting reduced about half for the zigzag electrode EDS system in comparison to a simple parallel bar one. For designing the different EDS systems, the well-known Finite Element calculation method (COMSOL Multiphysics software) has been employed, respectively.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":36067,"journal":{"name":"Physics Open","volume":"14 ","pages":"Article 100131"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"5","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Physics Open","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666032622000321","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Physics and Astronomy","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
In order to reduce water consumption (especially in remote areas) for the self-cleaning dust removal systems, the efficiency of a three-phase traveling electromagnetics wave for some designed Electrodynamics Dust Shield (EDS) setups are simulated and also experimentally tested. The designed Fresnel rings electrodes EDS system showed about 25% enhancement on light collecting power and a substantial improvement on dust removal efficiency, as well. On the other hand, for the fabricated EDS systems the dust removal efficiency has been tested as a function of the dust particle size, respectively. In this study, the removal dust particles has been sampled from three different Iran's desserts with a vast size ranges, which matches with many of the remote areas in the world. It was confirmed that the sweeping frequency range from 5 to 100 Hz improved the cleaning efficiency and also the sweeping time lasting reduced about half for the zigzag electrode EDS system in comparison to a simple parallel bar one. For designing the different EDS systems, the well-known Finite Element calculation method (COMSOL Multiphysics software) has been employed, respectively.