A Study on Nanoparticle Aerosol Filtration via Different Fibrous Filters by Using CFD Approach

Fibrous filters such as nonwoven media are generally characterized by their collection efficiency and pressure drop. The traditional computational studies in this area typically based on unrealistic over-simplified geometries with the fibers placed in a lattice perpendicular to the flow. This paper describes the filter properties made of different Nonwoven materials by using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) approach. In this study, for the first time, a virtual 3-D web is generated based on the fiber orientation information obtaining from analyzing microscopic images of both long-fiber and short-fiber nonwoven structures. Pressure drop and collection efficiency of our virtual filter are simulated and compared with the previous analytical and numerical models as well as experiment.

Fibrous filters such as nonwoven media are generally characterized by their collection efficiency and pressure drop. The traditional computational studies in this area typically based on unrealistic over-simplified geometries with the fibers placed in a lattice perpendicular to the flow. This paper describes the filter properties made of different Nonwoven materials by using Computational Fluid Dynamics （CFD） approach. In this study, for the first time, a virtual 3- D web is generated based on the fiber orientation information obtaining from analyzing microscopic images of both long-fiber and short-fiber nonwoven structures. Pressure drop and collection efflcicucy of our virtual filter are simulated and compared with the previous analytical and numerical models as well as experiment.