Removal of nanoparticles from gas streams by fibrous filters: A review

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 5-17

  Wang, Chiu Sen ^a   Otani, Yoshio ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATE MORPHOLOGY; BASIC PRINCIPLES; CLASSICAL THEORY; COLLECTION EFFICIENCY; EXPERIMENTAL CONFIRMATION; FIBROUS FILTERS; FILTRATION DEVICES; FLOW REGIMES; GAS STREAMS; HIGH-FLOW RATE; IMPACTORS; LOW PRESSURE DROP; MICRO-FIBER; MULTILAYER FILTERS; NANOSCALE PARTICLES; PARTICLE LOADING; PARTICLE SHAPE; SUBMICRON-SIZED PARTICLES; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS;

AGGLOMERATION; FILTERS (FOR FLUIDS); MULTILAYERS;

NANOPARTICLES;

EID: 84872169032     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie300574m     Document Type: Review

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