Novel air filtration device for building air handling unit

Aerosol and Air Quality Research

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 570-577

  Kwon, Soon Bark ^a   Kim, Seyoung ^a   Park, Duck Shin ^a   Cho, Youngmin ^a   Kim, Jinho ^a   Kim, Myungjoon ^b   Kim, Taesung ^b  

^a Korea Railroad Research Institute   (South Korea)

^b Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Air handling unit (AHU); Axial flow cyclone; Filtration; Panel type cyclone; Particulate matter

Indexed keywords

AIR FILTRATION; AIR HANDLING UNITS; AIR STREAMS; AIRFLOW PATTERNS; AXIAL-FLOW CYCLONES; DEMISTER; FILTER MATERIALS; FILTER SYSTEM; HIGH LOAD; INDOOR AIR POLLUTANTS; KEY PARTS; MAINTENANCE REQUIREMENT; OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE; PANEL-TYPE CYCLONE; PARTICLE REMOVAL; PARTICULATE MATTER; PM REMOVAL; SIZE RANGES; WATER JETS;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ELECTROSTATIC PRECIPITATORS; ELECTROSTATIC SEPARATORS; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; MAINTENANCE; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); RAILROADS; SUBWAY STATIONS; UNDERPASSES; WATER FILTRATION;

AIR FILTERS;

AIR QUALITY; FILTER; FILTRATION; INDOOR AIR; MAINTENANCE; OPTIMIZATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY);

EID: 80052595681     PISSN: 16808584     EISSN: 20711409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4209/aaqr.2011.06.0087     Document Type: Article

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