Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Slip Effect on Nanofiber Filter Performance at Low Pressures.

ABSTRACT: Nanofiber filters are widely used in air filtration applications due to their superior performance over microfiber filters. Velocity slip around nanofibers has been identified as a key factor contributing to their high figure of merit, yet its impact on filter performance, especially particle collection efficiency, remains unclear due to the difficulty in isolating the slip effect as the sole variable. This study combines experimental and simulation methods to investigate the slip effect by adjusting the air molecule mean free path, rather than varying fiber size as done in previous studies. Filter media with mean fiber sizes ranging from 16.2 to 0.084 µm are utilized. An image-based regression method is developed to address the challenge of determining the solidity of thin nanofiber layer

SUBMITTER: Pan Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11636192 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature