Predicting gas-phase air-cleaning system efficiency at low concentration using high concentration results: Development of a framework

Building and Environment

Volumn 68, Issue , 2013, Pages 12-21

  Khazraei Vizhemehr, Ali ^a   Haghighat, Fariborz ^a   Lee, Chang Seo ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Filtration; Gas phase filters; IAQ; Indoor air contaminants; Measurements; Model

Indexed keywords

BREAKTHROUGH MODELS; CONTAMINANT CONCENTRATIONS; GASPHASE; GRANULAR ACTIVATED CARBONS; IAQ; INDOOR AIR CONTAMINANTS; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; WHEELER-JONAS EQUATION;

FILTRATION; GRANULAR MATERIALS; IMPURITIES; MEASUREMENTS; MODELS; RATE CONSTANTS; WATER FILTRATION;

AIR CLEANERS;

BUILDING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENERGY EFFICIENCY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FILTRATION; GAS; INDOOR AIR; MODELING;

EID: 84880381575     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2013.05.023     Document Type: Article

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