POLYDISPERSED AEROSOL FILTRATION IN GRANULAR MEDIA

Granular filtration of polydispersed aerosols were studied experimenta lly. The objectives of the study were to investigate the effect of dep osited particle size on the increase of the unit collector efficiency and to quantify the increase for predicting filter performance. An alg orithm for determining the effluent concentration histories of polydis persed aerosol filtration was presented. Together with the correlation s developed in this work, prediction of filter performance can be made readily. Good agreements between experiments and predictions based on the correlations established in this work were observed.