Assessing the performance of air cleaning devices - A full-scale test method

Building and Environment

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 143-149

  Bastani, Arash ^a   Lee, Chang Seo ^b   Haghighat, Fariborz ^a   Flaherty, Chris ^b   Lakdawala, Ness ^b  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN IMMUNOLOGY AND CANCER   (Canada)

Author keywords

Activated carbon; Air cleaning devices; Experimental set up; Gas phase filtration; Ventilation

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON FILTERS; AIR CLEANING; AIR CLEANING DEVICES; AIRTIGHT NESS; BUILT ENVIRONMENT; EXPERIMENTAL SET-UP; FULL SCALE TESTS; GAS FILTERS; GAS-PHASE AIR CLEANING; GAS-PHASE FILTRATION; MECHANICAL SYSTEMS; PRE-QUALIFICATION; STANDARD TEST PROCEDURES; TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITY CONTROL; TEST RIGS; UNIFORM DISPERSIONS;

ACTIVATED CARBON; AIR PURIFICATION; CHARCOAL; CLEANING; DRILLING RIGS; HUMIDITY CONTROL; IMPURITIES; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; POROUS MATERIALS; STANDARDIZATION; TEST FACILITIES; TESTING;

AIR FILTERS;

ACTIVATED CARBON; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FILTER; FILTRATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; TESTING METHOD; VENTILATION;

EID: 70249084835     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2009.05.008     Document Type: Article

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