Electrostatic Dust Mitigation and Manipulation Techniques for Planetary Dust

One of the most pervasive limits to lunar surface exploration is the presence of lunar dust, which is electrostatically charged and adheres to everything with which it comes into contact. Electrostatic Dust Mitigation and Manipulation Techniques for Planetary Dust explains how to control and remove dust in space due to presence of vacuum, abrasiveness of dust particles and electrostatic charge on the particles. This book introduces an innovative technology of using electrostatic and di-electrophoretic forces to remove and transport small particles away from surfaces. It also discusses how to resolve thermal control problems such as dust-covered LRV batteries and reducing lung inhalation and eye irritation problems from the dust. A unique feature to this book is that two abrasive wear test devices were designed and manufactured to study the rate of volume wear for di?erent materials, when subjected to lunar dust simulant of di?erent size ranges. This book is for space system engineers, space exploration researchers, and advanced students and professionals in space engineering. Provides a good comprehensive background on lunar and Martian dust properties and challenges, and compares currently available mitigation strategies Highlights the problems from dust on various space systems and crew  Features discrete element models which were created and calibrated based on the experimental results to study the capacity of this technique for removing and cleaning dust in the lunar environment as well as on Earth INDICE: 1. Background and introduction 2. Lunar and martian dust related problems 3. Dust removal techniques 4. Lunar and martian dust properties 5. Lunar dust abrasivewear 6. Dust particle removal by electrostatic and dielephoretic forces 7. Disctrete element modeling of electric curtain 8. Introduction to advanced discrete element modeling by edem software  9. Conclusion

• ISBN: 978-0-12-821975-1
• Editorial: Elsevier
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 220
• Fecha Publicación: 01/02/2021
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés