SPARCLE: Electrostatic Dust Control Tool Proof of Concept

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

“…Parameter C contained physical properties of the dust particles, the solar panel, and the (Clark et al 2010). …”

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

“…Introduced by NASA Kennedy Space Center and the University of Tokyo, the bestcharacterized technology in this category is the electrodynamic dust shield, which uses the electric curtain concept, which may work at the expense of power consumption faster than the energy capture rate of a solar panel [8]. An electrostatic-based toll called SPARCLE (space plasma alleviation of regolith concentrations in the lunar environment) was suggested by [9]. This method requires an electron gun and a surrounding collection circular plate to charge particles to deposit on an assumed surface, and induce dust to lift towards the oppositely charged surfaces with lower potential acting as a collector.…”

“…This method requires an electron gun and a surrounding collection circular plate to charge particles to deposit on an assumed surface, and induce dust to lift towards the oppositely charged surfaces with lower potential acting as a collector. Although this tool is portable and operates at low power, either robotic arms or an astronaut's involvement is needed, which makes it cumbersome when cleaning large surfaces [9][10][11][12][13]. Another electrostatic-based tool called an electrostatic lunar dust collector (ELDC) has been developed as feasible lunar dust mitigation technology, which requires the least electrical power.…”