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Sunil de Silva-A Scientist and a Visionary |
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| Authors: | Abdallah Younes Houari Sayah Mohamed Younes Adrian Samuila |
| Affiliation: | 1. Laboratoires IRECOM , Université de Sidi Bel Abbés , Algeria;2. ICEPS , Université de Sidi Bel Abbés , Algeria;3. Laboratoires IRECOM , Université de Sidi Bel Abbés , Algeria;4. Institute PPRIME, UPR3346, CNRS , University of Poitiers , France;5. Institute PPRIME, UPR3346, CNRS , University of Poitiers , France |
| Abstract: | The objective of this work was to analyze the behavior of good conducting granules in a newly designed plate-type electrostatic separator. Commercial software was employed for the numerical analysis of the electric field generated by an original electrode configuration. This enabled the evaluation of the electric charge and forces on conducting particles. The trajectory of a single particle was calculated over a set of 1300 points. The simulated results show that the trajectories depend on the applied voltage, the radius, and the mass density of the granules. They were found in good agreement with the experiments carried out on a laboratory electrostatic separator. |
| Keywords: | computational electrostatics electrostatic field electrostatic separation induction charge |