Aerosol Filtration

Filtration of aerosols is omnipresent in our daily lives, in areas as diverse as health, the protection of people and the environment, and air treatment inside buildings. However, the collection of particles within a filter media is not, contrary to popular belief, linked to a simple screen effect. The phenomena involved are much more complex and require the consideration of aerosol interactions, filter media and process conditions to select the best fiber filter for a given application. Aerosol Filtration, book for students, hygiene or process engineers, fibrous media manufacturers, designers, and filtration system suppliers or users addresses the filtration of aerosols in six chapters. These chapters cover physics and aerosol characterization, the fibrous media, and efficiency and filter clogging by solid or liquid aerosols, with special attention to the filtration of the nanoparticles.

Analyses the behavior of fibrous media against solid and liquid aerosolsPresents models of efficiency and pressure dropIntroduces computing elements for estimating the lifetime of filtersProvides guidance for designing filters and predicting their behavior over time

1. An Introduction to Aerosols by Dominique Thomas and Augustin Charvet
2. Fibrous Media by Jean-Christophe Appert-Collin and Dominique Thomas
3. Initial Pressure Drop for Fibrous Media by Nathalie Bardin-Monnier and Dominique Thomas
4. Initial Pressure Efficiency of a Fibrous Media by Dominique Thomas
5. Filtration of Solid Aerosols by Dominique Thomas
6. Filtration of Liquid Aerosols by Augustin Charvet and Dominique Thomas