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Experimental investigation of electrostatic generation of coal granules

  • FANG Jia ,
  • ZHAO Yanlin ,
  • YAO Jun ,
  • WANG Chi-Hwa
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  • 1. Beijing Key Laboratory of Process Fluid Filtration and Separation, Department of Thermal Energy Engineering, College of Mechanical and Transportation Engineering, China University of Petroleum-Beijing, Beijing 102249, China;
    2. Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117585, Singapore

Received date: 2019-01-25

  Revised date: 2019-05-28

  Online published: 2020-03-15

Abstract

Coal granules are widely used in gas-solid two-phase transmission industries, such as mining and energy. In the industrial process, electrostatics is generated by the collision and friction between the coal granule and between the granule and the wall surface. If it is not discharged in time, it will gradually accumulate in the working system, thereby causing many problems for the safety production, such as granule clustering, blocking, sparking, explosion, etc. In addition, the charged granules in the gas-solid two-phase flow cause a series of measurement problems, which seriously affect the measurement accuracy and even damage the instruments. The main task of this experiment is to establish a measurement experiment system for electrostatic generation of single coal granules,and to study the effects of the physical factors, sliding velocity, environmental relative humidity, surface roughness, and granular materials on the generation of electrostatics. After comparing and analyzing the data, we found that these factors have greater impacts on electrostatics, and a comparative analysis was conducted to summarize the mechanism of electrostatic generation of single granules and the influences of various factors.

Cite this article

FANG Jia , ZHAO Yanlin , YAO Jun , WANG Chi-Hwa . Experimental investigation of electrostatic generation of coal granules[J]. Journal of University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2020 , 37(2) : 220 -227 . DOI: 10.7523/j.issn.2095-6134.2020.02.011

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