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T h e o r y o f O p e r a t i o n
The principle behind operating the Model 3082 Electrostatic Classifier with
any DMA is based on the monotonic relationship between electrical
mobility and particle size of single-charge particles. To ensure a fixed
percentage of particles carrying one unit of charge, the particles are
introduced to a bipolar charge in a Model 3077/3077A or a Model 3088
Neutralizer where they undergo frequent collisions with ions of both
positive and negative polarity. This process is known as bipolar charging or
“neutralization.” As a result, an equilibrium charge state is obtained, with
known percentages of particles carrying no charge, a single charge, or
multiple charges of both positive and negative polarities. These aerosol
particles are then classified with the differential mobility analyzer and can
be measured by a Condensation Particle Counter or an Aerosol
Electrometer. The mobility distribution, and hence size distribution, can be
determined from the measurement.
H i s t o r y
Electrical mobility techniques have been used to measure the size
distribution of aerosols since the work of Rohmann [1923]. The differential
mobility analyzer (DMA) was developed and used initially for electrical
mobility measurements of submicrometer particles [Hewitt, 1957].
Liu and Pui [1974] used the differential mobility analyzer with a bipolar
charger to produce monodisperse aerosols of known size. Their design
was used to develop the first commercial DMA, the TSI Model 3071
Electrostatic Classifier. Not long after the development of the DMA,
Knutson and Whitby [1975] incorporated the DMA into a particle-sizing
system. The commercial system was known as the Model 3932 Differential
Mobility Particle Sizer (DMPS).
The interface hardware was developed by TSI Incorporated. Knutson
[1976] developed a data inversion technique for obtaining the initial aerosol
size distribution based on the measured particle mobility distribution. A
data inversion technique si
milar to Knutson’s was used in the commercial
DMPS/C data reduction. The data inversion technique is based on the
work of Plomp, et al. [1982] and Hoppel [1978], and the data reduction
technique was developed by Fissan et al. [1982]. The approximation of the
bipolar charge distribution on submicrometer particles has been taken from
the work of Wiedensohler [1986, 1987] and Wiedensohler and Fissan
[1988].
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