Abstract
To investigate an electrical discharge occurring from or in a space-charge cloud, a large-scale charged particle cloud was formed by using a cloud generator consisting of a blower and corona charger. The distribution of the electric field strength around a charged particle cloud has been investigated to determine the behavior of charged particles. The soil-conditioning particles were charged by corona charging and blown by high-speed air flow in a test room, 5 m wide, 10 m long, and 3 m high. The average charge-to-mass ratio of the particles blown by this method was 170 /spl mu/C/kg. The space-charge density of the cloud was calculated at the order of 10 /spl mu/C/m/sup 3/ from the electric field strength outside of the cloud. While the electric field strength at the outside of the cloud increased up to 52 kV/m within 2 m downstream from the cloud generator, it decreased below 25 kV/m farther than 2 m away from the cloud generator due to dispersion of charged particles. The change in the electric field strength due to dispersion of charged particles can be qualitatively explained by a simple cloud model. The velocity of charged particles transported by air flow and mobility of charged particles are found to be effective factors increasing the electric field strength around the large-scale charged particle cloud.
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