TY - JOUR
T1 - Environmental dust removal from inclined hydrophobic glass surface: avalanche influence on dynamics of dust particles
AU - Yilbas, Bekir Sami
AU - Alsharafi, Abdullah Mohammed Hussain
AU - Ali, Haider
AU - Al-Aqeeli, Naser Mohammed
AU - Al-Qahtani, Hussain Mohammad
AU - Alsulaiman, Fahad Abdulaziz
AU - Abu-Dheir, Numan Mohammad Khalil Zuhdi
AU - Abdelmagid, G
AU - Elkhazraji, A
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - The removal of environmental dust particles from optically transparent glass surfaces is considered, and the dynamics of the dust particles on the inclined hydrophobic glass surface is examined. The glass surfaces are coated by functionalized nano-sized silica particles to create a hydrophobic wetting state on the surface. A thin layer of environmental dust particles, collected from the local area of Dammam in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is deposited on the surface while mimicking the dust accumulation on the surfaces in the dusty days of KSA. In order to increase the removal rate of the dust particles from the inclined hydrophobic glass surfaces, high density particles, which are higher than the density of the dust particles, are locally distributed on the dust particle-deposited surface while generating the avalanche influence on the inclined surface. The motion of the dust and high density particles on the inclined surface is monitored using a high speed camera. The predictio
AB - The removal of environmental dust particles from optically transparent glass surfaces is considered, and the dynamics of the dust particles on the inclined hydrophobic glass surface is examined. The glass surfaces are coated by functionalized nano-sized silica particles to create a hydrophobic wetting state on the surface. A thin layer of environmental dust particles, collected from the local area of Dammam in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is deposited on the surface while mimicking the dust accumulation on the surfaces in the dusty days of KSA. In order to increase the removal rate of the dust particles from the inclined hydrophobic glass surfaces, high density particles, which are higher than the density of the dust particles, are locally distributed on the dust particle-deposited surface while generating the avalanche influence on the inclined surface. The motion of the dust and high density particles on the inclined surface is monitored using a high speed camera. The predictio
M3 - Article
SN - 2046-2069
JO - ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
JF - ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
ER -