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Electrostatic precipitator construction having spacers

US4478614A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateDec 3, 1982
Grant dateOct 23, 1984
Priority date
Expiry dateDec 3, 2002

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB03C3/86
  • WIPO fieldChemical engineering
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

The present invention relates to an improved construction for an electrostatic precipitator. The electrostatic precipitator collects solid particles carried by a flue gas from a source of combustion. The precipitator includes a plurality of spaced plates for collecting solid particles from the flue gas by electrostatic attraction of the solid particles to the plates. A plurality of elongated electrodes is positioned among the plates. Each of the electrodes is mounted between a pair of adjacent plates. Each of the electrodes is parallel to the other electrodes and is parallel to the plates. A plurality of identical spacers is positioned between adjacent plates to hold the plates in a flat attitude and to maintain adjacent surfaces of adjacent plates equidistantly spaced from one another. Each of the spacers is an elongated single unitary member and has one end fixed to a surface of one of a pair of adjacent surfaces of the plates and the other end abutting the other of the adjacent surfaces.

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