Vacuum Cleaner
Use of Electrostatics
What is static Electricity
Inside your household vacuum
This is a diagram of inside your vacuum cleaner, and all of the parts included.
Electrostatics
This image shows what happens with static electricity
Dust particles filtering
In this diagram, it shows how the dust particles are being filtered through the filtration system that is built into the vacuum.
How Vacuums use Electrostatics
A vacuum cleaner uses static electricity to get rid of all of the dust particles in your house, business office etc. It simply “alters the charges in the dust particles” making them stick to a filter that has an opposite charge (Theory: opposites attract) There is an electric current in the vacuum cleaner that operates the mechanism. This part of the vacuum is the motor. The motor is attached to a fan type machine, which then (when turned on) pushes air towards the exhaust pipe. When this happens, the dust and dirt particles are starting to become filtered.
It then creates a suction, and sucks/attracts the dust particles to the filtration system to filter out the dirt and dust particles.