environmental degradation and economic growth are two important proofs in sustainable developmentwhich are followed by steel industry. in this case, energy and environmental damages as sustainabilitypatterns of environment have been investigated in three different dust collectors to select the mostenvironmentally suitable dust collector for electric furnace. in this article, the consumption amo...

Executive Summary Performance evaluation of a pulse-jet baghouse operating with AirPol's Gas Suspension Absorption (GSA) process was conducted at TVA's Center for Emissions Research (CER) facility. The baghouse filtered approximately 5000 acfm of flue gas and was operated in two different configurations: in parallel with the electrostatic precipitator (ESP) at an air-to-cloth of 4.0 acfm/ft2 an...

We introduce a new global approach for image dithering, stippling, screening, and sampling. It is inspired by the physical principles of electrostatics. Repelling forces between equally charged particles create a homogeneous distribution in flat areas, while attracting forces from the image brightness values ensure a high approximation quality. Our model is transparent and uses only two intuiti...

In the practice of electrostatically actuated micro devices; the electrostatic force is implemented by sequentially actuated piecewise-electrodes which result in a traveling distributed electrostatic force. However; such force was modeled as a traveling concentrated electrostatic force in literatures. This article; for the first time; presents an analytical study on the stiffness variation of m...

Electrostatic precipitators have been used widely in industry, and play an important role in environmental protection. Electrostatic precipitator (ESP) can be operated with a high collection efficiency and a low pressure drop. Recently, ESP also has been used for cleaning indoor air. In this review, principles of electrostatic precipitation, such as particle charging, migration velocity of char...

A laboratory-scale single-stage electrostatic precipitator (ESP) was designed, built and operated in a wind tunnel. As a "rst step, a series of experiments were conducted to seek the operating conditions for increasing the particle collection e$ciency by varying basic operating parameters including the wire-to-plate spacing, the wire radius, the air velocity, the turbulence intensity and the ap...

This work concerns electrostatic properties of an ionic solution with multiple ionic species of possibly different ionic sizes. Such properties are described by the minimization of an electrostatic free-energy functional of ionic concentrations. Bounds are obtained for ionic concentrations with low electrostatic free energies. Such bounds are used to show that there exists a unique set of equil...