Cleaning of Indoor Air from Highly Dispersed Particles and Aerosols.

The production activity of many industries is associated with the release of highly dispersed particles and aerosols, as well as the subsequent capture of fine particles. Such processes take place, for example, in the production of fillers and polymers, powdered pigments and chemicals, carbon black, plant protection chemicals, lime and cement, pulverized quartz and asbestos, in the melting of non-ferrous and rare metals. According to doctors, highly dispersed particles, penetrating into the alveoli of the lungs, cause various occupational diseases of workers in the mining, coal, machine-building industries – pneumoconiosis. For example, when working in the environment containing silicon dioxide dust, workers develop one of the severe forms of pneumoconiosis – silicosis, and exposure to beryllium dust causes a very serious disease – berylliosis. To purify air and other gases from mechanical impurities, a variety of physical forces and means are used: gravitational forces, inertial forces, centrifugal forces, electric interaction forces of charged particles, capillary forces, as well as filter partitions with the appropriate pore size. To solve the problem of cleaning indoor air from highly dispersed particles and aerosols that cause the greatest harm to health, in this paper it is proposed to use electrostatic filters that provide filtration in an electric field through highly porous cellular materials. As a result of the theoretical and experimental studies, the parameters of the cleaning process and the design parameters of the electrostatic filter were determined, ensuring high process performance and the degree of purification.

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