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The common denominator of established industries owing success to electrostatics, involves small forces acting on micron and sub-micron particles. While such forces appear insignificant, they are enormous when compared to gravity acting on the same particles in air. Furthermore, designed electric fields can move them along any desired paths, without affecting the gaseous medium. Considering that the earth air is shared by its entire population, and that particulates present major health hazard, the properties of the electric forces put them in the forefront of effort to restore our air environment. The encouraging results of gaseous pollution abatement research in world laboratories, with corona induced oxidation and/or plasma chemical processes, cost wise, are not yet acceptable to industry. The Canadian industrial developments in minimizing particulate emissions is presented together with the limited research in gaseous pollution abatement.
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Inculet, I.I. (1999). The Present Position of the Electrostatics in the Environment Protection and the Canadian Experience. In: Inculet, I.I., Tanasescu, F.T., Cramariuc, R. (eds) The Modern Problems of Electrostatics with Applications in Environment Protection. NATO Science Series, vol 63. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4447-6_1
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