ESPs & scrubbers are common, but new discoveries have made a third, more efficient alternative possible for the capture of submicron particles. The Cloud Chamber System (CCS), developed by Tri-Mer Corp, has emerged as an effective & proven alternative for the control of coarse, fine, ultra-fine & condensable particulate exhausted from glass making processes. CCS is the result of recent discoveries in electrofluidics & its basis is the use of charged water droplets to remove fine particles. The droplets must be of a certain size, a sufficiently large charge & in the correct number density. Particles are not charged during the process. Inside a CCS, billions of charged droplets rapidly interact with the particle-bearing process stream. When a particle & droplet pass within 20 microns of each other, electrical forces cause mutual attraction & the particle is pulled into the droplet. Each individual water droplet becomes a particle collector.
