Publication detail

Air purification performance of polypropylene hollow-fibre membranes in submicron particle removal

BULEJKO, P. DOHNAL, M. POSPÍŠIL, J. SVĚRÁK, T.

Original Title

Air purification performance of polypropylene hollow-fibre membranes in submicron particle removal

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

This work aimed to determine filtration performance of polypropylene hollow-fibre membranes (HFMs) for removing submicron particles from air. Experiments were performed in a glass chamber supplied with an aerosol of submicrometric particles. Two types of HFMs varying in packing density, active filtration area and pore-size distribution were tested in an outside-in configuration. By measuring the number of particles upstream and downstream of the HFM, the filtration efficiency was determined at a permeate velocity of 5 cm/s. Particle counting was carried out using a TSI 3075 condensation particle counter connected to a TSI 3080 scanning mobility particle sizer in 64 particle size channels from 16.8 to 572.5 nm. The results show high efficiency, mostly higher than 99% for particles above 100 nm size. The most penetrating particle sizes (MPPS) were between 22 and 30 nm with an efficiency of 95–97%.

Keywords

Hollow-fibre membrane; Filtration efficiency; Pressure drop; Submicron particles

Authors

BULEJKO, P.; DOHNAL, M.; POSPÍŠIL, J.; SVĚRÁK, T.

Released

2. 11. 2017

Publisher

Česká aerosolová společnost

Location

Praha

ISBN

978-80-270-2862-7

Book

Proceedings of 18th Annual Conference of the Czech Aerosol Society

Pages from

88

Pages to

91

Pages count

5

URL

http://cas.icpf.cas.cz/download/Sbornik_VKCAS_2017.pdf

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT140813,
  author="Pavel {Bulejko} and Mirko {Dohnal} and Jiří {Pospíšil} and Tomáš {Svěrák}",
  title="Air purification performance of polypropylene hollow-fibre membranes in submicron particle removal",
  booktitle="Proceedings of 18th Annual Conference of the Czech Aerosol Society",
  year="2017",
  pages="88--91",
  publisher="Česká aerosolová společnost",
  address="Praha",
  isbn="978-80-270-2862-7",
  url="http://cas.icpf.cas.cz/download/Sbornik_VKCAS_2017.pdf"
}