Measurement of filtration efficiency of Nuclepore filters challenged with polystyrene latex nanoparticles: Experiments and modeling

Journal of Nanoparticle Research

Volumn 13, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 5415-5424

  Ling, Tsz Yan ^a   Wang, Jing ^b,c   Pui, David Y H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Clean water; Efficiency; Filtration; Modeling and simulation; Nanoparticle tracking analysis; Nanoparticles

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL FILTRATION; AEROSOLIZATION; CAMERA SETTINGS; CAPILLARY TUBE MODEL; CLEAN WATERS; CONCENTRATION LIMITS; FILTER MEDIUMS; FILTRATION EFFICIENCY; FILTRATION PROCESS; MEMBRANE FILTRATIONS; MODEL MEMBRANES; MODELING AND SIMULATION; NANOPARTICLE TRACKING; NANOPARTICLE TRACKING ANALYSIS; NUCLEPORE; PARTICLE COLLISION; PARTICLE CONCENTRATION MEASUREMENT; POLYSTYRENE LATEX PARTICLES; POLYSTYRENE LATEXES; PURE CHEMICALS; STICKING COEFFICIENTS; SURFACE INTERACTIONS;

CAPILLARY TUBES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EFFICIENCY; EXPERIMENTS; LATEXES; NANOPARTICLES; POLYSTYRENES; POTABLE WATER; RIVERS; WATER FILTRATION;

MICROFILTRATION;

DRINKING WATER; LATEX; NANOPARTICLE; POLYSTYRENE; WATER;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; FILTER; FILTRATION; LIQUID; MEASUREMENT; MEMBRANE FILTER; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 80955158646     PISSN: 13880764     EISSN: 1572896X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11051-011-0529-2     Document Type: Article

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