Measurements of the Collection Efficiency of an Air Cyclone in Lunar Gravity
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2009-03-15Author
Crosby, Kevin
Agui, Juan
Pennington, Caitlin
Sorensen, Emily
Martin, Erin
Fritz, Isa
Frye, Bradley
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We report experimental results on the collection efficiency of an air cyclone operating with a lunar dust simulant under lunar gravity. Microgravity collection efficiency is, to within experimental uncertainty, not different from collection efficiencies obtained in one-g experiments. We discuss a heuristic model of particle motion in an air cyclone that accounts for this unexpected result, and provide a framework for future experiments to clarify the operational properties of cyclone filtration systems in microgravity.
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WSGC Proceedings Paper 2008
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