title: Application of a fibrous electrostatic filter for treatment of diesel exhaust.
abstract: The paper presents results of investigations of a novel method for diesel exhaust filtration in a fibrous filter supplemented by the external electrostatic field (FEF), which may be used to eliminate the occupational hazard near sources of diesel emission. The reported research follows the preliminary basic study of soot removal in such systems (Ciach, Sosnowski, & Podgórski, 1995), and is focused on the construction and testing of a prototype technical-scale FEF device. The results suggest a strong relation between applied voltage and filtration efficiency of the system and demonstrate the influence of aerosol precharging on the efficiency, which can be more than 95%.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland. ciach@ichip.pw.edu.pl
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ciach
authors.forename: T R
authors.initials: TR
authors.lastname: Sosnowski
mesh_terms: D000336:Aerosols; D000389:Air Conditioning / Q000295:instrumentation*; D000395:Air Pollutants, Occupational; D004867:Equipment Design; D005374:Filtration / Q000295:instrumentation*; D006801:Humans; D008422:Materials Testing; D055672:Static Electricity; D013696:Temperature; D013997:Time Factors; D001335:Vehicle Emissions
chemical_list: D000336:Aerosols; D000395:Air Pollutants, Occupational; D001335:Vehicle Emissions