Held in Birmingham, AL, USA
May 14 - 17, 2001

The International Conference on Electrostatic Precipitation (ICESP) is the official conference of the International Society for Electrostatic Precipitation (ISESP).  

The following is a list of papers from the VIII ICESP Conference.  Click on the series title to view abstract in that series section.   

Volume I

A-1 Series - ESP Fundamentals (Tuesday, May 15, 2001)

A1-1  The Effect of Temperature on Corona Characteristics

A1-2  The Effect of Electro-hydrodynamic Froude Number on Particle Motion and Collection in Laboratory-Scale Electrostatic Precipitators.

A1-3  Study of Particle Dispersion and Turbulence Modification Phenomena in Electrostatic Precipitators

A1-4  Electro-aerodynamic Secondary Flow in an Electrostatic Precipitator and its Influence on Transport of Small Diameter Particles

A-2 Series - Computerized Fluid Dynamic Modeling (Tuesday, May 15, 2001)

A2-1  Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling of Collection Dynamics

A2-2  Numerical Modeling of Gas Distribution in Electrostatic Precipitators

A2-3 Computational Fluid Dynamic Modeling of Electrostatic Precipitators

A2-4  Influence of Dust Re-Entrainment and Skew Gas-Flow Technology on ESP Efficiency Marian Sarna 

A2-5  Electrostatic Precipitation Dust Movement and Gas Flow Optimization

A-3 Series - ESP Process Modeling I (Wednesday, May 16, 2001)

A3-1  New Results in Fuzzy Logic Based ESP Modeling

A3-2  Automatic Operation of EPRI ESPert for Real Time Monitoring and Performance Predictions of ESP

A3-3  On Dust Cake Removal in Electrostatic Precipitators

A3-4  Comparison of Techniques for Electrode Rapping in Electrostatic Precipitators

A-4 Series - ESP Process Modeling II (Wednesday, May 16, 2001)

A4-1  A Methodology to Simplify the ESP Models

A4-2  ESP Modeling: From University Studies to Industrial Application

A4-3  Modeling of Electrode Geometry Effects on Dust Collection Efficiency

A4-4  Drift Velocity of Fine Particles Estimated from Fractional Efficiency Measurements in a Laboratory-Scale Electrostatic Precipitator

A4-5  Correlation Between Current Density, Dust Layer Structure and Re-Entrainment in a Laboratory ESP

A4-6  Estimated Operating V-I Curves for Rigid Frame Discharge Electrodes for Use in ESP Modeling

A-5 Series - Application of Skewed Gas Flow (Thursday, May 17, 2001)

A5-1 A critical Review on the Concept of Gas Distribution

A5-2  Some Modifications of a Gas Flow in an ESP for Efficiency Improvement

A5-3  The Evaluation of Skewed Gas Flow Technology

A5-4  The Application of Skewed Gas Flow technology at the Israel Electric Corp. MD-A Station

B-1 Series - ESPs in Industrial Application I (Tuesday, May 15, 2001)

B1-1  Sinter Plant Pollution Control Technology for the New Millennium

B1-2  Enhancing Sinter Strand ESP Performance Using Pulse Energization

B1-3  High Efficiency Removal of Dust and Gaseous Pollutants Downstream of Glass Furnaces (Manuscript not available for proceedings).

B1-4  Electrostatic Precipitators for Refinery Fluid Bed Catalytic Cracking Units

B-2 Series - ESP in Industrial Applications II (Tuesday, May 15, 2001)

B2-1  Customized Rigid Discharge Electrodes Show Superior Performance in Pulp & Paper Application

B2-2  How To Successfully Upgrades a Soda Recovery Boiler Electrostatic Precipitator

B2-3  Develop ESP Energy Conservation Potential

B2-4  Improving ESP Performance by Optimizing Power Supply - Industrial Applications

B2-5  Intelligent Centralized-Control and Management System for ESPs

Volume II 

B-3 Series - ESP Performance Improvement (Wednesday, May 16, 2001)

B3-1  Performance Up Gradation of ESPs Using Difficult Coal

B3-2  Modernization of ESP Plants in Russia

B3-3  Performance Improvement of Existing ESP in Cement Plant

B3-4  Development of the Moving Net ESP to Improve Performance of ESPs

B-4 Series - Novel Electrostatic Collectors (Wednesday, May 16, 2001)

B4-1  Trend of Electrostatic Precipitator Design in Japan

B4-2  Development of Research Works on Lentoid Type ESP

B4-3  ElectroCore Advanced Particulate Control Technology for Power Generation

B4-4  Development of Advanced Gas Cleaning System for Sub-Micron Particle Removal

B4-5  A Kind of Light Type ESP

B4-6  Several Problems on Application for Roof ESP

B-5 Series - Wet ESP Technology (Thursday, May 17, 2001)

B5-1  WESPs and Fine Particle Collection

B5-2  Horizontal Flow, Flat Plate WESPs for High Efficiencies and Large Gas Flows

B5-3  Analysis of Wet ESP Performance at Xcel Energy's Sherbourne County Station

B5-4  Incineration Facility Employs Wet ESP Pollution Control Technology to Meet New EPS MACT Multi-Pollutant Standards

C-1 Series - Switched-Mode Power Supplies (Tuesday, May 15, 2001)

C1-1  Electrical Design Considerations for Switched-Mode Power Supplies (SMPS) for ESPs (Manuscript not available for Proceedings.)

C1-2  Hard Switching - A Superior Switched-Mode Power Supply Design for ESP

C1-3  Advanced Switched Integrated Rectifiers for ESP Energization

C1-4  Full Scale Test With Switched-Mode Power Supplies on an ESP at High Resistivity Operating Conditions

C-2 Series - Energization for ESPs (Tuesday, May 15, 2001)

C2-1  IPC System and New Type T/R Microcomputer Control

C2-2  Methods to Reduce the Energy Consumption of an ESP

C2-3  Low Maintenance Robust Pulse Power for Pulsed Corona NO_x

C2-4  Identification of Optimal Parameters for Pulsed Energization of ESPs

C2-5  Effects of Back Corona on ROPE Waveforms

C-3 Series - Plasma Discharges for Gas Cleaning (Wednesday, May 16, 2001)

C3-1  Corona Induced Non-Thermal Plasma for Pollution Control and Sustainable Technology

C3-2  Simultaneous Removal of NO_x and Carbon Soot from Diesel Exhaust Using Discharge Plasma

C3-3  Experimental Study on the Plasma Gas Conditioning in Electrostatic Precipitator

C3-4  Simultaneous Removal of Fine Particulates, SO₂ and NO_x by a Two-Stage Electrostatic Precipitators With Ferro-Dielectric Electrode Pre-charger

C-4 Series - ESPs in Utility Applications I (Wednesday, May 16, 2001)

C4-1  Precipitation Characteristics of Fly Ash With High Percentage of Aluminum

C4-2  Typical Kinds of Coal in China and Some Special Coals With Their Fly Ash Difficult to Precipitate by ESP

C4-3  The Impact on ESP Efficiency and Counter Measures When Low Sulfur Coal Begin To Be Used in Coal-Fired Boilers

C4-4  Improvements in Predicting the Effects of Sulfur Trioxide Vapor on Fly Ash Resistivity

C4-5  Flue Gas Conditioning for Enhancing the Performance of Older ESPs to Provide Fuel Flexibility

C-5 Series - ESPs in Utility Applications II (Thursday, May 17, 2001)

C5-1  Pilot-Scale Evaluation of Positive Polarity for Hot-Side Electrostatic Precipitators

C5-2  Electrical Re-Entrainment of Particles Deposited on Collecting Plate in Electrostatic Precipitator

C5-3  Development and Demonstration of ROPE - A New Pulse Energization System for Electrostatic Precipitator (Manuscript not available for proceedings).

C5-4  An Investigation Into the Use of Electrode Mass Measurement to Optimize an Electrostatic Precipitator Unit