The Cloud Chamber Scrubber^® (CCS^®) was developed by Dr. Clyde Richards, Atmospheric Physics, Inc. (Albuquerque, NM), and is licensed to Tri-Mer Corporation.  In a Cloud Chamber Scrubber, billions of droplets and particles move continuously in relation to each other.  As they approach 10 microns of separation, electrical attraction causes the particulate to enter the droplets.  This means that collector water droplets are delivered to the particulate in a way that has never been accomplished before.

Cloud Chamber Scrubber offers significant performance advantages over ESP emissions equipment and other devices for controlling submicron particulate.  Chief among them is the requirement of less than 1" of pressure drop per CCS stage under full load operation.  This factor is a major contributor to the CCS system’s low operating costs, compared to ESP and similar devices.  The power requirements for ESP emissions devices are over 100 times greater than CCS.

CCS also removes fumes and gases, including HCl, HF, HNO3, H2SO4, SO2, Cl2 and NH3, simultaneously with particulate, which an ESP cannot do.  This is important because now one device can handle submicron particulate and hazardous fumes simultaneously.