Experimental Research on the Filtering Efficiency for a New Style of Air Filter

The primarily designed high speed rotary self cleaning air filter adopted axial outlet and tangential inlet, the filtering efficiency of the filter was relative low and couldn't reach the lowest efficiency limit. In order to enhance the filtering efficiency, the inlet and outlet structure of this new style of air filter were improved and the experimental research was carried out. The results showed that the filtering efficiency of the filter exceeded the lowest limit, this new style air filter can be practically developed further.

Feasibility Research on the High Speed Rotary Positive Air Filter

The structure, separation principle and feasibility research for a new type of vehicle air filter called the high speed rotary positive air filter were described. The analysis of the experimental data showed that the principle and structure of it were feasible and it possessed high separation efficiency and great self cleaning ability. Compared with the conventional air filter it also has lower air intake loss. So it is worth further practical research.

FLOW CHARACTERISTICS OF WALLFLOW DIESEL PARTICULATE FILTER SYSTEM WITH REVERSE PULSE AIR REGENERATION

To simulate steady airflows inside of wall-flow diesel particulate filters （DPF） with different reverse blowing pipes collocation, a mathematical model of the flow in a DPF is established by an equivalent continuum approach. The experimental results agree well with the theoretical values calculated from the model. Simulation shows that the velocity and the pressure distribution of the filters in the regenerative process are key factors to the filter＇s regeneration. How to decrease the mal-distribution of the flow in the filter and how to achieve the better regenerative performance at the least cost of air consumption in the regenerative process are the ultimate goals of the study. Calculation and experiments show that the goals can be realized through adjusting the angle of two reverse blowing pipes and their relative location suitably.

Improving the Surface Performance of Electrospun Air Filter Paper Using Multi-walled Carbon Nanotubes

In this study,air filter base paper(P)was used as the receiving substrate,polyvinyl alcohol(PVA)and PVA/multi-walled carbon nanotube(MWCNT)spinning solutions were used to prepare electrospun air filter papers(P-PVA and P-PVA/MWCNT,respectively).Then,P-PVA/MWCNT was calendered under different pressures.The effect of MWCNTs on the surface performance of P-PVA/MWCNT was explored and the influence of calendering technology on their structure and filtration characteristics was analyzed.Electron scanning microscope observation showed that the PVA nanofibers on the surface of P-PVA/MWCNT had no beading,and MWCNTs weakened the surface electrostatic phenomenon and had a good micromorphology.During the calendering process,with an increase in pressure,the mean pore size and surface roughness of P-PVA/MWCNT decreased,the initial resistance increased,and the filtration efficiency changed slightly.

Experimental assessment of a new salt aerosol generator for measuring efficiency of automotive air filters

Generation of polydisperse KCl aerosol with a new salt aerosol generator was investigated, Special attention was paid on particles with diameters between 3 and 10 μm. The main improvement consists of the different routes of KCl solution droplets. In traditional generators, the solution droplets travel through one cylinder; while in the case analyzed here, after spray atomization, the droplets travel through two cylinders in series. The first cylinder was fed with warm air and the second one with cold air. In such way, the complete evaporation of the water from the droplets can be ensured. The influencing factors of the generated aerosol size distribution were investigated. The data measured show that the concentration of generated aerosol becomes higher both increasing the flow rate of the KCI solution injected in the first cylinder and increasing the concentration in the solution. The temperature of solution influences mainly the generation of smaller KCI particles （0,3-3 μm）. The amount of hot air used in the generation process increases the concentration of larger KC1 particles （〉3 μm） while cold air does not have the same effect. The aerosol generator is able to generate KC1 aerosol stably. This instrument can be used effectively for testing air filters for automotive.

Manufacturing of High-efficiency Air Filter Paper Using Ultra-fine Fibers

In this paper,the manufacturing of high-efficiency air filter paper is reported.The air filter paper was produced using ultra-fine fibers and wateroat fibers mercerized by alkali,using an electrospinning apparatus with multiple rings.The high efficiency air filter paper has an antibacterial effect after adding a chitosan-copper complex which is harmless to humans.As a result of the measurement,the filtering efficiency of the air filter paper is approximately 99.998%and its antibacterial efficiency is approximately 99.5%.

An Approach towards Eco-labeling of Compressed Air Filters Based on Carbon Footprint

Compressed air--a major industrial energy carrier, its filters are used to reach the required cleanliness level of compressed air. These filters, however, introduce a pressure drop which results in a loss of energy. It is shown that over the life cycle of a compressed air filter, the pressure drop dominates the total energy consumption and subsequently, the carbon footprint. From an economic as well as ecologic point of view, a reduction of the pressure drop is hence of utmost importance. Based on this finding and structuring, the wide range of applications and operational parameters, a pragmatic and technically feasible eco-labeling system for compressed air filters was developed as a decision supporting tool. Using this tool, procurement managers as well as the process engineers and environmental officers are able to steer the selection of suitable compressed air filters. The approach has been proposed to and discussed with various representatives of the compressed air filter industry nevertheless there is probably a long way to go to establish such a labeling procedure in industry.

Natural Convection through Air Filter Media for Cooling of Remote Radio Heads

Passive cooling techniques are cost effective and reliable methods of cooling remote radio heads (RRH). This paper investigates the plausibility of a passive cooling technique involving exchanging warm air, from the internal cavity of RRHs, with fresh ambient air, to reduce the operating temperature using natural convection across air filters. The results indicate that, an internal air filter tube structure, with width of the enclosure, running vertically up the middle of an RRH, along with 4 pleat filter sides (2.0 ± 0.5 cm separation) provides the most effective outdoor suitable setup out of those examined. This provides a reduction in temperature of 3.9°K ± 0.4°K in the PA and 4.0°K ± 0.4°K in the radio, and a reduction in mass of 0.45 ± 0.05 kg, and is capable of withstanding water ingress and corrosive conditions including wind driven rain and salt fog.

Removal of dichloromethane from waste gases by a biotrickling filter

Dichloromethane is harmful to human health and hazardous to atmospheric environment. In this study, two strains were isolated which were identified as Pseudomonas sp. and Mycobacterium sp., and utilized dichloromethane （DCM） as sole carbon and energy sources. The optimal culture conditions were temperature of 28℃ and pH of 6.5 for obtaining the two mixed bacterial strains. The investigation on the purification of DCM-contaminated gas was carried out in a bench-scale biotrickling filter which was inoculated with the two strains and operated under these optimal conditions. The DCM removal efficiencies varied between 72% and 99% in the biotrickling filter when empty-bed residence time was 9.6 s with the inlet concentrations ranged fi＇om 0.7 to 3.12 g/m^3 under the conditions ofpH of 6.5 ±0.5 and temperature of 28℃. It was also found that NaCl accumulation in the broth would inhibit the DCM biodegradation dramatically when the accumulated NaCl concentration was over 35.1 g/L.

Application of a novel backwashing process in upflow biological aerated filter

To improve the efficiency of backwashing in upflow biological aerated filter （BAF）, a novel backwashing process named air-water siphon backwashing （AWSB） was proposed and applied on laboratory scale. The effects of backwashing on turbidity and suspended solid （SS） in backwashing efluent using this new backwashing process were compared with those of traditional backwashing process, namely air-water backwashing （AWB）. In AWB, the turbidity of backwashing efluent maintained 100 NUT when consumed 60 min and 10.5 L water. However, in AWSB, it declined to 44 NUT, consumed 40 min, and 7 L water. The COD removal of BAF after backwashing was also analyzed. The average removal rate of COD in the reactor backwashed by AWB and AWSB was 89.34% and 90.91%, respectively. Compared with AWB, the backwashing interval had been prolonged 35%. The volume of backwashing water in that AWSB was only 66.7% of that in AWB. The results demonstrated that AWSB required less water and took shorter backwashing timerelative to AWB to achieve the same turbidity of backwashing efluent, and AWSB was more effective in removing fouling than that of AWB. More significant advantage of AWSB was that the backwashing interval was effectively prolonged

3D Numerical Simulation of Aerodynamic Characteristics of a Gas Filter

The filter paper and activated carbon which filled inside the gas filter have porous media characteristics. In order to study the flow field structure in the filter layer and the activated carbon layer, Computational Fluid Dynamics method is used to simulate the aerodynamic characteristics of a simplified gas filter. The inertial and viscosity parameters of porous media are solved by Forchheimer equation. The three-dimensional N-S equation and the modified low Reynolds number k-ε turbulence model are adopted to analyze the influence of the explosion-proof plate on the gas filter’s aerodynamic characteristics. The results showed that the air age in the upstream of the activated carbon plates was small, which easily caused the rapid penetration of the Poisonous gas. And in the downstream and around of the activated carbon plates, the air age is larger, formed dead zone, the utilization rate of activated carbon is lower. The explosion-proof plate increases the pressure drop of the gas filter, the air age distribution in the filter layer is more uniform and the utilization rate of filter paper is improved. However, the explosion-proof plate has little influence on the flow field structure of the activated carbon layer.

超低阻呼吸防护用聚乳酸纳米纤维膜制备及长效过滤性能

长期暴露于大气环境中高浓度的细颗粒物(PM_(2.5))会对人类的长期健康效应产生消极影响,传统空气过滤材料难以兼顾高效、低阻的防护效果,且不可降解,不仅加剧全球塑料污染,还易产生更强的微塑料危害。为此,制备了一种具有空气滑移效应、自供能且可生物降解的纳米纤维膜,以保障长效、低阻呼吸防护。提出两步水热法制备平均粒径49.6 nm、易分散的BaTiO_(3)电介质,同时利用“静电纺丝-静电喷雾”法将BTO纳米颗粒(BTO NPs)原位嵌入PLA纤维膜,利用BTO NPs的摩擦电效应和尺寸效应同步调控纤维膜的过滤效率和空气阻力。通过控制喷雾悬浮液中BTO NPs的浓度,探讨其与PLA/BTO纤维膜电活性、过滤性能和力学性能之间的关系。微观表征和性能测试结果表明:PLA/BTO纤维膜具有优异的电活性、过滤性能及力学性能。PLA/BTO纤维膜表面电势可高达5.9 kV,介电常数达1.20 F/m,平均输出电压高达12.4 V;得益于增强的空气分子滑移效应和电活性,PLA/BTO10纤维膜在显著降低空气阻力(低至20 Pa)的同时,对PM_(0.3)过滤效率提升了7.78%~9.05%,对PM_(2.5)过滤效率提升了2.90%~13.19%,即使在85 L/min高测试流量下仍能保证高达97.25%的PM_(2.5)过滤效率;同时,PLA/BTO纤维膜拉伸强度增幅高达60%(拉伸强度22.5 MPa),断裂伸长率增幅高达68%(断裂伸长率25%),而断裂韧性最高可提升1.3倍(断裂韧性3.6 MJ/m^(3))。因此,提出的兼具长效、低阻过滤且可降解纤维膜在呼吸防护领域具有广阔的应用前景,也为缓解废弃口罩加剧的塑料污染现状提供了一种新思路。

Probabilistic Automatic Outlier Detection for Surface Air Quality Measurements from the China National Environmental Monitoring Network

Although quality assurance and quality control procedures are routinely applied in most air quality networks, outliers can still occur due to instrument malfunctions, the influence of harsh environments and the limitation of measuring methods. Such outliers pose challenges for data-powered applications such as data assimilation, statistical analysis of pollution characteristics and ensemble forecasting. Here, a fully automatic outlier detection method was developed based on the probability of residuals, which are the discrepancies between the observed and the estimated concentration values. The estimation can be conducted using filtering—or regressions when appropriate—to discriminate four types of outliers characterized by temporal and spatial inconsistency, instrument-induced low variances, periodic calibration exceptions, and less PM_(10) than PM_(2.5) in concentration observations, respectively. This probabilistic method was applied to detect all four types of outliers in hourly surface measurements of six pollutants(PM_(2.5), PM_(10),SO_2,NO_2,CO and O_3) from 1436 stations of the China National Environmental Monitoring Network during 2014-16. Among the measurements, 0.65%-5.68% are marked as outliers. with PM_(10) and CO more prone to outliers. Our method successfully identifies a trend of decreasing outliers from 2014 to 2016,which corresponds to known improvements in the quality assurance and quality control procedures of the China National Environmental Monitoring Network. The outliers can have a significant impact on the annual mean concentrations of PM_(2.5),with differences exceeding 10 μg m^(-3) at 66 sites.

空气过滤用聚氨酯纳米纤维膜的制备及其性能

为拓展静电纺纳米纤维在空气过滤领域中的应用,以聚氨酯(PU)为原料,加入不同种类的盐,采用静电纺丝法制备树枝状PU纳米纤维膜。利用扫描电镜(SEM)、接触角测试仪、红外光谱仪、自动滤料测试仪测试纳米纤维膜的微观结构、亲疏水性、化学结构和过滤性能。结果表明:在PU质量分数14%条件下,添加有机盐TBAC,纺丝电压35 kV时,制备的纳米纤维膜的树枝状分叉结构明显;TBAC的加入使纤维膜的接触角由99.1°减小到82.8°;分叉结构使纳米纤维膜的过滤性能显著提高,与纯PU纳米纤维膜相比,过滤效率从50.8%提高到93.6%,品质因子从0.009提高到0.073,可满足高效低阻空气过滤材料的需求。

Filtered-OFDM——Enabling Flexible Waveformfor the 5G Cellular Networks

To deal with the expected diversification on traffic types, the fundamental waveform of the upcoming5 G standard must be sufficiently flexible. In the 4th generation wireless networks(e.g., cellular LTE and Wi- Fi802.11ac), orthogonal frequency division multiplexing(OFDM) has been widely adopted to combat frequency selectivity and thus improve the spectrum efficiency. Holding various advantages such as backward compatibility with LTE, ease of hardware implementation, time-localized low-latency transmission and straightforward combination with multi-antenna transmission, OFDM will remain as an important waveform candidate for 5G. However,OFDM alone appears to be insufficient in terms of the requirements faced by 5G waveform, such as high flexibility to accommodate different waveform numerologies for an efficient support of diversified traffic types and channel characteristics. In this work, we present a new waveform format, named as filtered-OFDM(f-OFDM) and illustrate its potential and benefits for serving as the underlying waveform of 5G.

Decadal Changes in the Near-Surface Air Temperature in the Western Side of the Antarctic Peninsula

An analysis of the minimum air temperature behavior was carried out for the southern tip of South America and the western side of the Antarctica Peninsula. Punta Arenas shows an overall annual warming of 0.15°C per decade during the 1960-2010 period, although this occurred mainly in the summer and winter seasons. The trend of the air temperature in the western side of the Antarctic Peninsula shows an increase until around 2000, but the warming rate during the last 2001-2010 decade has been less than previous decades;in particular, meteorological stations in King George Island show slight cooling. The lineal annual warming per decade as shown by Bellingshausen, Verndsky/Faraday and Rothera stations are 0.26°C ± 0.75°C, 0.55°C ± 1.26°C and 0.69°C ± 1.31°C;for the respectively, 1969-2010, 1951-2010 and 1978-2010 periods. These rates of warming are slightly lower than those found for the same stations but for the 1969-2000, 1951-2000 and 1978-2000 periods.

Application of ATOVS Radiance-Bias Correction to Typhoon Track Prediction with Ensemble Kalman Filter Data Assimilation

In this paper, firstly, the bias between observed radiances from the Advanced TIROS-N Operational Vertical Sounder （ATOVS） and those simulated from a model first-guess are corrected. After bias correction, the observed minus calculated （O-B） radiances of most channels were reduced closer to zero, with peak values in each channel shifted towards zero, and the distribution of O-B closer to a Gaussian distribution than without bias correction. Secondly, ATOVS radiance data with and without bias correction are assimilated directly with an Ensemble Kalman Filter （EnKF） data assimilation system, which are then adopted as the initial fields in the forecast model T106L19 to simulate Typhoon Prapiroon （2006） during the period 2-4 August 2006. The prediction results show that the assimilation of ATOVS radiance data with bias correction has a significant and positive impact upon the prediction of the typhoon＇s track and intensity, although the results are not perfect.

空气过滤棉荷尘阻力特性的实验研究

为研究复合式空气过滤棉的阻力特性,选择3层复合空气过滤棉作为主要研究对象,通过实验系统地研究荷尘速率对其阻力变化的影响,并与过滤纸进行对比。研究结果表明:在相同过滤风速下,荷尘质量浓度越低,过滤棉阻力上升速度越快;过滤棉等级越低,荷尘质量浓度对其阻力增长影响越大,归一化阻力随单位面积荷尘质量的增长越快;过滤风速对过滤棉归一化阻力的增长有影响,过滤风速越大,归一化阻力增长越缓慢,但对效率较高的过滤棉影响不大。相同荷尘条件下,相较于过滤纸,过滤棉的归一化阻力上升更慢;基于实验归纳得到3层复合空气过滤棉的阻力增长特性方程。研究结果可为其使用寿命预测提供参考。

基于壳聚糖的复合抑菌空气滤料制备与评估

由于新冠疫情的暴发,人们对于室内空气质量有了更高的要求.探索既能过滤细微颗粒物,还能抑制和消杀微生物细菌、防止二次污染的过滤材料具有重要意义.以质量分数为1%的聚四氟乙烯(PTFE)乳液配制出不同壳聚糖质量浓度的浸渍液,利用直接浸渍后处理工艺制备出壳聚糖/涤纶/聚四氟乙烯复合抑菌空气滤料.利用大肠杆菌为实验菌落验证其抑菌性能,并对其织物特性、捕集效率及压差特性进行了研究.结果表明,壳聚糖质量浓度为12.5 mg/mL时复合滤料初始阻力最小,对PM_(2.5)粒子捕集效率达到93.88%,品质因子为0.02013,分别比原始滤料提高19.56%,0.0044,且对大肠杆菌的抑菌率为84.12%.综上所述,壳聚糖质量浓度为12.5 mg/mL,PTFE乳液质量分数为1%的浸渍液制备的壳聚糖/涤纶/聚四氟乙烯复合抑菌空气滤料兼具良好的过滤能力与抑菌效果.