Experimental analysis of the attraction force applied on metal particles using a double-side electrical curtain

Separating microparticles by material and size using dielectrophoretic chromatography with frequency modulation

“…Jasper Giesler 1 , Laura Weirauch 1 , Jorg Thöming 1,2 , Michael Baune 1 & Georg R. Pesch 1,2* Separation of (biological) particles ( ≪ 10 µm ) according to size or other properties is an ongoing challenge in a variety of technical relevant fields. Dielectrophoresis is one method to separate particles according to a diversity of properties, and within the last decades a pool of dielectrophoretic separation techniques has been developed.…”

“…Separation of particles from each other is important in a wide variety of areas. For example, it is required in electronic waste recycling to recover valuable metals [1][2][3] , to enrich desired minerals in the mining sector 4,5 , to detect circulating cancer cells 6 , in waste water treatment 5 , and many other fields. For large particles ( ≫ 10 µm), inertia-or gravity-driven processes are one option to achieve a classification with respect to density or particle size.…”

High‐throughput dielectrophoretic separator based on printed circuit boards

“…Separating particles according to their properties is an important task in technical applications such as processing of minerals [1, 2] and recycling of electronic waste [3–5]. Separation is also a unit operation in biotechnological applications such as the detection of circulating tumor cells [6–8], processing of proteins or DNA [9–11], or the collection of micro algae with high lipid content [12–14].…”

“…Other groups used PCB to fabricate customized electrical connections for their setups [47,48]. PCB were also used to manipulate particles using so-called electric curtains for example for dust repulsion [49] or metal sorting [5].…”

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.…”