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Importance of Electrostatic Precipitator

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What is electrostatic precipitation?

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Electrostatic precipitator is a filtration device that removes fine particles, like dust and smoke from the flowing gas using induced electric charge.
It is an air pollution control device. The first commercially successful process was patented in 1908 following experiments by American chemistFrederick Gardner Cottrell.

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