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    Measurements of the Collection Efficiency of an Air Cyclone in Lunar Gravity

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    WSGC Proceedings Paper 2008 (4.465Mb)
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    2009-03-15
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    Crosby, Kevin
    Agui, Juan
    Pennington, Caitlin
    Sorensen, Emily
    Martin, Erin
    Fritz, Isa
    Frye, Bradley
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    cyclone efficiency microgravity lunar dust mitigation
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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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