Abstract

Between March and June 2010 a series of volcanic events at Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland caused enormous disruption to air travel across Western Europe. The disruptions started over an initial period of six days in April 2010. About 20 countries closed their airspace to commercial jet traffic and it affected approximately 10 million travelers. Volcanic ash has been caused grounding of many aircraft as a source of possible damage to aircraft engines. The projected technical strategy, an electrostatic precipitator (ESP), was tailored for the high bypass turbofan engine model PW4000 in this study. It was based on the standard two-stage ESP but designed with the PW4000 engine. The innovative ESP prototype is primarily made up of a hexagram structure of six discharge electrode plates and three circular collecting electrode rings.

Keywords

electrostatic filter, engine, aerodynamic, computational fluid design