Electrostatic Dust Control on Planetary Surfaces

A review of particle transport and separation by electrostatic traveling wave methods

“…Experimental investigation and numerical simulation of dust mitigation used on Earth or in space has received increasing attention and has been conducted by many researchers, notably the group of Calle at the NASA Kennedy Space Center [18,19,48,49,56,59,60], the group of Mazumder in the University of Arkansas at Little Rock [2,15,20,22,26,31,32,41], the group in Qian Xuesen laboratory of space Technology, China Academy of Space Technology [64,65], the group of Kawamoto in the University of Waseda [16,47,[52][53][54], the group of Noureddine in the University of Poitiers [27,34,45,67], the group of Guo in Texas A&M University [28,29,33,36,44], and the group of Amar in Djillali Liabes University of Sidi-Bel-Abbes [43,89]. The research and findings are classified into following sections.…”

Analysis of influence factors on dust removal efficiency for novel photovoltaic lunar dust removal technology

“…As the plates are alternatively connected to the positive and negative terminals of a DC power supply, the energy consumption cannot be neglected. Additionally, the weight of the plates, partial blockage of the solar radiation and the need for occasional cleaning bring seriously negative impacts on its wide application [14]. Based on the above methods, an electrostatic lunar dust repeller (ELDR) is studied to optimize these abovementioned concerns.…”

Review of dust transport and mitigation technologies in lunar and Martian atmospheres

“…The final results of the numerical non-linear optimization model concluded that the maximum energy efficiency occurred when the C value approached zero, and both V ' on and V ' off values approached 1. This model suggests an optimization tool to program the EDS to obtain the best times of activation and deactivation to achieve the maximum cleaning efficiency at the minimum energy consumption.The lunar dust control technology proposed byClark et al (2007), the space plasma alleviation of regolith concentrations in the lunar environment (SPARCLE), involved charging the dust layer with beams of high current electrons or ions emitting from a gunshaped probe. In fact, SPARCLE was an advanced version of lunar emissions and electron detector (LEED) invented by NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center.…”