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Powder Technology 287 (2016) 20–28 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Powder Technology journal homepage: /locate/powtec Effect of dust loading rate on the loading characteristics of high efficiency filter media Qiang Wang a, Xiuli Lin b, Da-Ren Chen a,⁎ a Particle laboratory, Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284, USA b Particle Safety Department, School of Sources and Civil Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China 110819 a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Experiments were performed to systematically investigate the effect of dust loading rate on the loading curve, Received 30 May 2015 i.e., filter pressure drop v.s. loaded particle mass per unit filter area, of high efficiency filter media. Two types of Received in revised form 19 August 2015 filter media, i.e., glass fiber and electret filters, were selected and loaded with both Arizona road dust and Accepted 22 September 2015 ultrafine dust. Five dust loading rates and two filter face velocities (i.e., 10 and 20 cm/sec) were varied in this Available online 25 September 2015 study. Our study indicates that the dust loading rate have its non-negligible effect on the loading curve of test Keywords: filter media, especially at low particle loading rates. It is found that the pressure drop across filter media when Dust loading rate