precipitator
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precipitators
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"All you would need to do is to collect them with an electrostatic precipitator -- a device that exposes the charged particles to an electric field and efficiently sweeps them away."
From Science Daily ● Mar. 12, 2024
Cal/OSHA also determined the company’s management knew the electrostatic precipitator — which exploded in 2015 — could explode during a flammable vapor leakage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2024
He also consulted for the DuPont Company, where he developed the electrostatic precipitator, a device designed to curb air pollution by removing colloidal particles from air.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
US chemist Frederick Cottrell received a patent for his device to reduce industrial pollution — an electrostatic precipitator — in 1908.
From Nature ● May 3, 2016
Of the four wakeful ones the most unhappy was Hiram himself, the precipitator of it all.
From The Second Generation by David Graham Phillips
You may also see models that use other air purifying technologies, including electrostatic precipitators, ultraviolet germicidal irradiation and photocatalytic oxidation.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 20, 2021
The book, a runaway success that was often credited as one of the precipitators of the Civil War, told of the horrors of slavery.
From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2019
Large electrostatic precipitators are used industrially to remove over 99% of the particles from stack gas emissions associated with the burning of coal and oil.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
Home precipitators, often in conjunction with the home heating and air conditioning system, are very effective in removing polluting particles, irritants, and allergens.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
For precipitators we can rig a battery-powered system that will put a few thousand volts on the screens.
From The Year When Stardust Fell by Raymond F. Jones
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