Degradation Processes in Corona Charged Electret Filter Media with Exposure to Ethyl Benzene英文文献.pdfVIP

Degradation Processes in Corona-Charged Electret Filter-Media with Exposure to Ethyl Benzene 1 2 1 Warren J. Jasper, Ph.D. and Anushree Mohan and Juan Hinestroza, Ph.D., and Roger Barker, Ph.D. 1 North Carolina State University, Raleigh North Carolina USA 2 Cornell University, Ithaca, New York USA Correspondence to: Warren J. Jasper, Ph.D. email:wjasper@ ABSTRACT One of the benefits of electric filters is their ability to remove fine particles with high filtration efficien- The degradation of filtration performance for corona- cies while maintaining a low pressure drop. This is charged electret filter media exposed to ethyl benzene especially important for particles in the .1 to .3 m was assessed. Nonwoven corona-charged polypropy- size range, or what is commonly denoted as the most lene fiber mats were exposed to ethyl-benzene using a penetrating particle size. The electrical charge plays a custom made apparatus. Evaluated scenarios included crucial role in the filtration mechanism, as the aerosol ethyl-benzene vapor and liquid exposures. The filtra- particles are attracted electrostatically to the fiber. One tion performance was evaluated using DOP as a test noticeable difference between charged and uncharged aerosol to measure filtration performance. It was ob- filter media is the distribution of captured particles on served t