IP Library Granted Patent US 12,275,018
Granted Patent B2
US 12,275,018 · App. 17/264,052 · Granted Apr 15, 2025

Electrostatic precipitator

Inventors: Kazutaka Tomimatsu (Kanagawa, JP); Masaya Kato (Kanagawa, JP); Takao Tanaka (Kanagawa, JP); Yasutoshi Ueda (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES POWER ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS, LTD.
B03C3/51B03C3/025B03C3/08B03C3/47B03C2201/14
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Patent No.
US 12,275,018
App. No.
17/264,052
Granted
Apr 15, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

An electrostatic precipitator includes a collecting electrode provided along a gas flow direction, including a plurality of openings being formed in the collecting electrode, and a discharge electrode arranged in parallel with the collecting electrode. The discharge electrode includes a plurality of corona discharge portions for corona discharge, the plurality of corona discharge portions are continuously provided in the gas flow direction, and are protruding toward only one collecting electrode of the collecting electrodes that face each other. A plurality of collecting electrodes and a plurality of discharge electrodes are alternately arranged in a direction orthogonal to a gas flow direction. In each of the upstream region and the downstream region in the gas flow direction, all of the corona discharge portions protrude in the same direction.

Claims (14)

1. An electrostatic precipitator, comprising:

a casing including a gas inlet from which a gas flows in and a gas outlet from which the gas is discharged outside the casing;

a collecting electrode configured to collect particulate matter by Coulomb force and provided in parallel along a gas flow direction of the gas that flows from the gas inlet to the gas outlet in the casing, including a plurality of openings being formed in the collecting electrode; and

a discharge electrode arranged in parallel with the collecting electrode, wherein

the collecting electrode comprises a plurality of collecting electrodes,

the discharge electrode comprises a plurality of discharge electrodes,

the plurality of the collecting electrodes and the plurality of the discharge electrodes are alternately arranged in a direction orthogonal to the gas flow direction,

the discharge electrode includes a plurality of corona discharge portions for corona discharge, the plurality of corona discharge portions are continuously provided in the gas flow direction, and are protruding toward only one collecting electrode of the collecting electrodes that face each other, and

each tip of the plurality of corona discharge portions is configured to be directed to one of the openings of the collecting electrode so that a part of an ionic wind flowing from the discharge electrode toward the collecting electrode escapes to a back side of the collecting electrode.

2. The electrostatic precipitator according to claim 1 ,

wherein

in a predetermined region in the gas flow direction, all of the plurality of corona discharge portions provided to each of the plurality of discharge electrodes similarly protrude in a first direction.

3. The electrostatic precipitator according to claim 2 , wherein,

in a downstream region that is downstream of the predetermined region, all of the plurality of corona discharge portions provided to each of the plurality of discharge electrodes protrude in a second direction opposite to the first direction.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Dec 10, 2021
From: MITSUBISHI POWER ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS, LTD.
To: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES POWER ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 058962/0788 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 28, 2021
From: TOMIMATSU, KAZUTAKA; KATO, MASAYA; TANAKA, TAKAO; UEDA, YASUTOSHI
To: MITSUBISHI POWER ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS, LTD.
Reel/Frame 055071/0019 →
Continuity (1)
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