Abstract
The main objective of this study was to determine the effect of filter pore size and fiber diameter on the performance of the baghouse filters for ultra-low emission. In this study, three kinds of conventional polyester filter (depth filtration media) and two kinds of polytetrafluoroethylene membrane-coated polyester filter (surface filtration media), having various filter pore sizes and fiber diameters, were tested to determine the performance of static and dynamic filtration. In order to determine the static filtration performance, the filtration resistance and the filtration efficiency of the clean filter media were measured by the arrestance method. The dynamic filtration performance experiments were conducted to determine the dynamic resistances, dust depositions, and dynamic filtration efficiencies of the dust-containing filter media under the condition of dust airflow filtration through a pulse-cleaning cycle. In the dynamic filtration performance experiments, the size of 50% test dust was less than 2.5 μm, and the mass mean aerodynamic diameter of the dust was 1.5 μm. The filtration velocity was 2 m∙min−1, and the dust concentration was 18.4 g∙m−3. The static filtration performance experiments showed that the filter pore size greatly affected the filtration resistance and the filtration efficiency of the fabric structure of the surface filtration media. In the depth filtration media, the filtration efficiency and the filtration resistance of the fabric structure were improved when the filter pore size and the fiber diameter were smaller in magnitude. For all the five filter media, smaller the pore size of the filter media, greater was the filtration precision (for fine particles, such as PM2.5) of the fabric structure. In the dynamic filtration performance experiments, the filter pore size and the fiber diameter of the depth filtration media affected the dynamic filtration resistance and the dynamic filtration efficiency of the depth filtration media by affecting the deposition rate of dust in the depth filtration media; however, the filter pore size of the surface filtration media affected the blocking rate of dust in the membrane micropores, thus influencing the dynamic filtration resistance and the dynamic filtration efficiency of the surface filtration media.
Highlights
Baghouses are widely used to purify the flue gases emitted by industries
The static filtration performance of clean filter media was investigated, which was used to study the effects of filter pore size and fiber diameter on the filtration performance of the fabric structure of the filter media, so as to provide basic data and theoretical support for the study of the influence of filter pore size and fiber diameter on the dust deposition characteristics and
The static filtration performance of clean filter media was investigated, which was used to study the effects of filter pore size and fiber diameter on the filtration performance of the fabric structure of the filter media, so as to provide basic data and theoretical support for the study of the influence of filter pore size and fiber diameter on the dust deposition characteristics and dynamic filtration performance of the dust-containing filter media
Summary
Baghouses are widely used to purify the flue gases emitted by industries. They represent some of the most important equipment used for environmental protection. They are used for the efficient removal of industrial dusts, especially fine particles [1,2,3]. The operation of a baghouse filter can be described as follows: when the airflow containing dust passes through the filter, the particles are captured and a dust cake is formed on the surface of the filter [4,5,6,7]. Public Health 2019, 16, 247; doi:10.3390/ijerph16020247 www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph
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