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ArticleScientific reports2020

Environmental dust repelling from hydrophilic/hydrophobic surfaces under sonic excitations.

Abba Abdulhamid Abubakar, Bekir Sami Yilbas, Hussain Al-Qahtani, Ammar Alzaydi

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Article in Scientific reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 21% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Abba Abdulhamid AbubakarMechanical Engineering Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, 31261, Saudi Arabia.
Bekir Sami YilbasMechanical Engineering Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, 31261, Saudi Arabia. bsyilbas@kfupm.edu.sa.
Hussain Al-QahtaniMechanical Engineering Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, 31261, Saudi Arabia.
Ammar AlzaydiMechanical Engineering Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, 31261, Saudi Arabia.
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals · SA

Funding

King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals IN171001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dust repelling from transparent polyvinyl chloride film surface via sonic excitation is examined and dynamics of repelled (inflight) dust particles are analyzed. An experimental rig is designed and built to assess the vibrational characteristics of the polyvinyl chloride film at different frequencies of sonic excitation. A high speed recording system and tracking program are utilized monitoring and evaluating the dynamics of the inflight particles. The dynamics of inflight particles are also simulated numerically and the predictions are compared with those of the experimental data. In order to examine the influence of dust particle adhesion on the dynamics of the inflight particles, the polyvinyl chloride film surface is hydrophobized through dip coating by functionalized nano-silica particles. Improvement of the optical transmittance of the dust mitigated film is determined via outdoor tests. The findings demonstrate that sonic excitation repels the particles from the film surface and it is more pronounced at 64 Hz excitation frequency while demonstrating that sonic excitation can be used for dust removal from transparent surfaces. The mitigation via sonic excitation improves the optical transmittance of the dusty surface by 77%, which becomes more apparent for hydrophobic surfaces.

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PMID33168898
PMCPMC7652867
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