Efficiency of Tungsten Dust Collection of Different Types of Dust Particles by Electrostatic Probe

2017 ◽  
Vol 80 (11) ◽  
pp. 1642-1646 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. B. Begrambekov ◽  
A. N. Voityuk ◽  
A. M. Zakharov ◽  
O. A. Bidlevich ◽  
E. A. Vechshev ◽  
...  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 261-273
Author(s):  
Barbara M. Alexander, PhD, PE, CIH ◽  
H. Amy Feng, MS ◽  
Gabriel Merk, BS

Objective: This article describes the development of a prototype dry decontamination system (DryCon) for use in the event of a contamination incident involving a particulate contaminant. Disrobing and showering is currently recommended almost exclusively in mass decontamination, although it may not be feasible when water is scarce, in cold weather environments, or when there may be compliance issues with the requirement to disrobe, ie, unwillingness to disrobe. During disrobing, dust particles could also re-aerosolize, leading to inhalation of contaminants.Design: The DryCon prototype uses air jets for dry decontamination. The system is portable and can run on building-supplied 220-V power or generator power. Multiple contaminated persons can be treated rapidly, one after the other, using this system.Setting: We tested DryCon in a controlled environment, using a manikin and three different types of fabric squares to investigate its effectiveness, with a decontamination time of 60 seconds.Main outcome: At the higher airflow tested, ie, 90 percent of full blower speed or approximately 540 cfm (15 m3/minute), mean decontamination efficiencies of 56.8 percent, 70.3 percent, and 80.7 percent were measured for firefighter (FF) turnout fabric, cotton denim, and polyester double knit fabric, respectively.Results: Removal of this easily re-aerosolized fraction of the contaminants helps protect contaminated people, as well as healthcare providers they come in contact with, from the potential risk of further inhalation exposures from the re-aerosolization caused by doffing clothing.Conclusion: The results demonstrate the promise of the DryCon system for use where water is not available, as a first step prior to wet decontamination, or in an industrial setting for post-work-shift decontamination. Further lab and field research will be necessary to prove the effectiveness of this technique in real-world applications and to determine if respiratory protection or other personal protective equipment (PPE) is needed during use of the DryCon system.


2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 26-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Алла Звягинцева ◽  
Alla Zvyaginceva ◽  
Светлана Сазонова ◽  
Svetlana Sazonova ◽  
В. Кульнева ◽  
...  

Existing measures for the suppression of dust and gas emissions during mass explosions at the quarry of a mining and processing plant were investigated. Measures have been developed to reduce dust and gas emissions, taking into account the analysis of existing measures to suppress dust and gas emissions from mass explosions in the open pit of the mining and processing plant of Lebedinsky GOK. The studies of surface active substances on the wettability of dust particles. In order to improve working conditions, it was proposed to reduce dust and gas emissions by suppressing them at the source of education, using the method of wetting and sticking of dust particles. The proposed engineering - technical solution can be used to reduce dust and gas emissions during massive explosions in the quarries of various mining and processing enterprises. The developed method is proposed to be used to ensure environmental safety and improve working conditions in industries with high dustiness by increasing the efficiency of dust collection.


2014 ◽  
Vol 1001 ◽  
pp. 432-437 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alena Očkajová ◽  
Ján Stebila ◽  
Marek Rybakowski ◽  
Tomasz Rogozinski ◽  
L'uboš Krišták ◽  
...  

The article presents results of the granulometric composition of chip particles when sanding wood (beech) and wood-based materials (particleboard and semi-hardboard) using different types of sanders – wide belt sander, narrow belt sander, and hand sander. On the basis of the carried out sieve analyses, the proportion of produced particles, which can be marked as dust with the particle size of ≤ 80 μm, is high at the interval from 89.21% - 96.29 %. The highest percentage of dust particles was reached at dust from the hand disk sander. At the end of the article we point to possible technical safety measures – additional dust exhausting, suction, to possibly reduce the dust getting to the working environment.


2019 ◽  
Vol 1396 ◽  
pp. 012007
Author(s):  
L B Begrambekov ◽  
O A Bidlevich ◽  
A V Grunin ◽  
A N Voityuk

1994 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-352 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ming Y. Yu ◽  
R. Bharuthram

The radial self-similar expansion of negatively charged impurity or dust particles in a cylindrical geometry is investigated using the multi-fluid theory. Three different types of self-similar solutions are considered. Various asymptotic limits of physical interest in the self-similar space are shown to occur.


1980 ◽  
Vol 90 ◽  
pp. 271-271
Author(s):  
J. Kissel ◽  
B. C. Clark ◽  
D. Clair

Experiments presently conducted at the Martin Marietta Denver facility to collect cometary dust during a Tempel 2 flyby are reviewed. It is shown that a number of viscid materials are quite suitable to collect particles up to 50 μm diameter at speeds up to 50 m/s. First results are presented for the more complicated setups using nonviscid metal surfaces for the collection of dust. These targets allow the use of surface analysis techniques for a more elaborate chemical analysis of the collected dust particles.


Author(s):  
I. S. Kuptsova ◽  

Introduction. The article deals with the problems of choosing equipment for effective dust removal and subsequent dust collection. The dependences describing the fields of flow velocities in the closed area of the abrasive wheel, influencing the formation of streamlines of flow motion near the shaped shelter of the rough grinding machine, are considered. Problem Statement. The objective of this research is to develop a mathematical and computer model of the aspiration of a rough grinding machine. Theoretical Part. To accomplish the set task, the modern software Аnsys was used as well as the previously obtained results of the dispersion analysis of abrasive-cast iron dust during grinding, which had been carried out using a High-class device — an Analysette22 NanoTec laser granulometer. Conclusion. The results of the analysis, the obtained fields and the values of the air flow velocities in the workplace of the machine operator will be compared with the hovering rates of various dust particles, which will allow us to determine the efficiency of the rough grinding machine shelter, including at the design stage.


Author(s):  
Олег Викторович Тирон ◽  
Иван Николаевич Логачев ◽  
Константин Иванович Логачев

В процессе сверления стеновых конструкций электродрелями возникают значительные пылевыделения, негативно влияющие на здоровье человека и загрязняющие окружающее пространство. Актуальным является разработка компактных насадков-пылеуловителей, снижающих пылевыделения. Предложена конструкция пылеулавливающего насадка - отсоса для локализации пылевыделений при сверлении электродрелями плоских поверхностей. Для выбора необходимого расхода отсасываемого из насадка воздуха и наиболее рациональных его размеров разработана компьютерная модель движения пылевоздушного потока с учетом влияния вращения сверла. Использовался программный комплекс SolidWorks с расширением Flow Simulation, где численно решались уравнения Навье-Стокса и неразрывности, замкнутые при помощи k - ε модели турбулентности. Динамика пылевых частиц определялась численным решением дифференциального уравнения их движения с коэффициентом сопротивления Хендерсона. Для проверки адекватности и достоверности модели проведены экспериментальные замеры скорости воздушного потока, увлекаемого вращающимся сверлом. При помощи обработки полученных экспериментальных и расчетных значений скорости по статическим критериям оценены достоверность, адекватность модели, воспроизводимость экспериментов, теснота связи. В качестве критерия эффективности улавливания пыли насадком, используется величина максимального диаметра улавливаемых пылевых частиц. Выявлены закономерности изменения величины максимального диаметра от угловой скорости вращения сверла, изменении радиуса всасывающего отверстия и его удаленности от края насадка. В результате численного моделирования показано, что если не учитывать количество воздуха, увлекаемого вращающимся сверлом, то возможны значительные погрешности при определении максимального диаметра уловленных частиц. Разработанная компьютерная модель и выявленные закономерности улавливания пылевых частиц могут быть использованы для создания эффективного пылеулавливающего насадка. In the process of drilling wall structures with electric drills, significant dust emissions occur, which negatively affect human health and pollute the surrounding space. Development of compact nozzles-dust collectors that reduce dust emission is urgent. We offer a new design of a dust-collecting nozzle - suction for the localization of dust when drilling flat surfaces with electric drills. To select the required flow rate of air sucked out of the nozzle and its most rational dimensions, a computer model of the movement of the dust-air flow has been developed, taking into account the influence of the rotation of the drill. We used the software package SolidWorks , in the Flow Simulation extension where the Navier-Stokes and continuity equations were numerically solved using the k - ε turbulence model. The dynamics of dust particles was determined by numerically solving the differential equation of their motion with the Henderson drag coefficient. We carried out a number of experimental measurements of the speed of the air flow activated by the rotating drill to check the adequacy and reliability of the model. By processing the obtained experimental and calculated values of the velocity according to static criteria we assessed the reliability, adequacy of the model, reproducibility of experiments and tightness of the connection. As a criterion for the efficiency of dust collection by the nozzle, the value of the maximum diameter of the captured dust particles is used. As well we revealed some regularities of the change in the value of the maximum diameter from the angular speed of rotation of the drill, the change in the radius of the suction hole and its distance from the edge of the nozzle. As a result of numerical simulation, it is shown that not taking into account the air flow created by the rotating drill leads to significant errors, reaching 68%. The developed computer model and the revealed patterns of trapping dust particles can be used to create an effective dust-collecting nozzle.


2019 ◽  
Vol 486 (3) ◽  
pp. 3755-3765 ◽  
Author(s):  
L E Ellerbroek ◽  
B Gundlach ◽  
A Landeck ◽  
C Dominik ◽  
J Blum ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT The structure of cometary dust is a tracer of growth processes in the formation of planetesimals. Instrumentation on board the Rosetta mission to comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko captured dust particles and analysed them in situ. However, these deposits are a product of a collision within the instrument. We conducted laboratory experiments with cometary dust analogues, simulating the collection process by Rosetta instruments (specifically COSIMA, MIDAS). In Paper I, we reported that velocity is a key driver in determining the appearance of deposits. Here in Paper II, we use materials with different monomer sizes, and study the effect of tensile strength on the appearance of deposits. We find that mass transfer efficiency increases from ∼1 up to ∼10 per cent with increasing monomer diameter from 0.3 to 1.5 $\mu\mathrm{ m}$ (i.e. tensile strength decreasing from ∼12 to ∼3 kPa), and velocities increasing from 0.5 to 6 m s−1. Also, the relative abundance of small fragments after impact is higher for material with higher tensile strength. The degeneracy between the effects of velocity and material strength may be lifted by performing a closer study of the deposits. This experimental method makes it possible to estimate the mass transfer efficiency in the COSIMA instrument. Extrapolating these results implies that more than half of the dust collected during the Rosetta mission has not been imaged. We analysed two COSIMA targets containing deposits from single collisions. The collision that occurred closest to perihelion passage led to more small fragments on the target.


2021 ◽  
Vol 280 ◽  
pp. 124317
Author(s):  
Zeki Ahmed Darwish ◽  
Kamaruzzaman Sopian ◽  
Ahmad Fudholi

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