Abstract: An air filter cartridge for use with an air cleaner assembly is provided. A variety of features for the air filter cartridge are characterized. An example air filter cartridge is depicted, which includes opposite flow faces. A preform secured to the media pack, with a seal member is described.

Abstract: An air blower device of an air-conditioning system for a vehicle including: a blower case including a duct part having an indoor air inlet and an outdoor air inlet, an air blowing part connected with an inlet of an air-conditioning case and a connection part for connecting the duct part with the air blowing part, the connection part having an insertion part of which the certain area is hollowed; an indoor and outdoor air converting door disposed inside the duct part of the blower case to open and close the indoor air inlet and the outdoor air inlet; an air blower is disposed inside the air blowing part of the blower case to forcedly blow air; an electric dust collector located at the connection part through the insertion part of the blower case; and a cover for opening and closing the insertion part of the blower case.

Abstract: There is provided an electrostatic precipitation device of explosive exhaust gas particles that can remove by unipolar charging a particulate material such as SiO2 that is included in an explosive exhaust gas by charging the explosive exhaust gas with an indirect charging method of charging through ions that are injected from the outside.

Abstract: An electrification apparatus for an electrostatic dust collector, including: a first electrode part having a shape of a plate having a plurality of through holes formed thereon in such a manner as to apply one of positive and negative electrodes thereto; and a second electrode part having protrusions each having a plurality of fine conductive fibers in such a manner as to protrude outwardly from the through holes of the first electrode part, whereby electrification performance is improved and harmful ozone and electromagnetic waves are reduced.

Abstract: An apparatus for separating particles from an air stream, the apparatus having an inlet region for the waste air stream, an outlet region for the waste air stream, a separating device arranged along the waste air stream, and at least one electrode arrangement which is connected to a high voltage source, wherein a charging region having one or more electrodes is provided to form a layer enriched with electrical charges, and wherein a separating region having separating surfaces is provided, which is subordinate to the charging region. The invention also relates to a method for separating particles from the waste air stream of a coating booth, wherein the waste air stream through a charging region in which particles of the waste air stream are charged, and the waste air stream after leaving the charging region flows through a separating region in which charged particles are deposited on separating surfaces.

Abstract: An electrostatic collector including: a collection chamber delimited by a tubular wall oriented along a first axis; a collection electrode configured to be disposed inside the collection chamber against the wall; a discharge electrode, of elongate form, that extends along the first axis and includes an end, in a shape of a tip, the end being disposed opposite the collection electrode; a first part of a first diameter, emerging on the tip-shaped end, a second part of a second diameter, the second diameter being greater than or equal to twice the first diameter, the second diameter for example being between 2 and 6 times the first diameter; and a sudden widening, extending between the first part and the second part.

Abstract: Provided is a solvent separation method and a solvent separation apparatus in which a vaporized solvent is collected at one internal side of a solvent separation unit by attracting the vaporized solvent based on electric field, while the vaporized solvent is prevented from coming into contact with electrodes, and the collected solvent is discharged from the solvent separation unit. Different electric fields are alternately applied to a pair of first electrodes and a pair of second electrodes present at predetermined locations inside a tetragonal tubular solvent separation unit to attract a vaporized solvent toward the second electrodes. Thus, the vaporized solvent is collected in a space between the second electrodes inside the solvent separation unit, and the collected solvent is discharged from the solvent separation unit, together with a portion of the exhaust atmosphere present around the collected solvent.

Abstract: An electrical dust-collecting filter is provided. The electrical dust-collecting filter includes a dust-collecting unit having a dust-collecting body and dust-collecting electrodes configured to generate an electrical field in the dust-collecting body. The dust-collecting body has a plurality of air channels laterally formed therethrough and discharge apertures formed in upper and lower surfaces thereof at inlets of the plurality of air channels. A discharge unit is integrally formed with the dust-collecting unit at the inlets of the plurality of air channels to facilitate corona discharge in air introduced into the inlets of the plurality of air channels.

Abstract: A dust collection device can be fitted to windows in a room, thus not only cleaning air while ventilating air within a space targeted for cleaning but also cleaning air outside of the space. A dust collection device is constructed by laminating first insulation type electrodes and second insulation type electrodes alternately via spacers. The insulation type electrodes have a configuration in which both sides of first electrodes (second electrodes) are coated by first insulating layers (second insulating layers). Furthermore, a power supply is connected to the electrodes, and the electrodes are grounded. In addition, a plurality of first through holes (second through holes) is provided in rows in the insulation type electrodes. Furthermore, the positions of the through holes in the insulation type electrodes are arranged in a plane view so as to be a prescribed distance from the positions of the through holes in the insulation type electrodes.

Abstract: A surface condensation process and device for efficiently removing coal combustion fly ash micro spheres are provided. The device is comprised of a patterned-plate type atomizer, a flow meter, an ultrasonic drive power source, an automatic temperature controller, a heat-tracing pipeline, a condensation sleeve, an electrically heated water storage tank, a water pump and an electrostatic precipitator.

Abstract: In a charging time period T1, a dry electrostatic precipitator outputs DCON that is a current for charging a collection target object from a high voltage power supply. Subsequently, in a second period of time T2-2 after a first period of time T2-1 passes from a time that a charging pause time period T2 starts, the dry electrostatic precipitator outputs DCBC that is a current that is less than DCON and is greater than a current in the first period of time T2-1, from the high voltage power supply.

Abstract: An air conditioning apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention includes a main body including a suction part through which air is suctioned and a discharge part through which the air suctioned through the suction part is discharged, a fan disposed in the main body to allow the air to flow, an electric charge device coupled to the main body outside the main body to charge dust in the air, and a filter device disposed between the suction part and the discharge part in the main body to collect the charged dust particles.

Abstract: Disclosed is an air cleaning device for air conditioners. The air cleaning device includes a charging unit, and a dust collector including ground bodies and high voltage applied bodies forming a potential difference with the ground bodies, and disposed after the charging unit in an air flow direction, the charging unit includes a charging unit body and carbon fiber electrodes installed on the charging unit body, and a hydrophilic layer is formed on the outer surface of at least one of the ground bodies and the high voltage applied bodies. The air cleaning device may minimize an amount of generated ozone and an amount of generated ions, as compared to a case having a charging unit in which electrical discharge wires and opposite electrodes are alternately disposed, and increase dust collection efficiency with a simple structure and at low costs.

Abstract: The present invention provides methods and systems for a self-cleaning ion generator that includes a self-cleaning ion generator device that includes a bottom portion, a top portion, and a sidewall, and at least one electrode extending from the top portion, and a cleaning apparatus for cleaning the at least one electrode.

Abstract: A composite sheet material for making industrial air pollution control filters where the composite sheet material includes a porous, non-filtering, electrostatic dissipation substrate on which is bonded a thin, high efficiency filter layer. Before application of the filter layer, both sides of the porous substrate are imprinted with a pattern of spaced apart, parallel lines of conductive ink which penetrate over 50% of the substrate thickness so that the pattern on one side meets at intersections within the substrate with the pattern on the opposite side to provide a series of continuous, uninterrupted electrostatic discharge pathways running through the substrate to dissipate static electricity charges. The composite sheet material may be pleated and formed as a tube for making baghouse filter cartridges.

Abstract: An air cleaning device for removing aerosol particles from an air stream comprising: a particle charger comprising a housing and an electrode arrangement therein for generating air ions in the air stream, the particle charger having a particle charging zone within which, in use, aerosol particles in the air stream are electrically charged via collision with the air ions; a filter for precipitating electrically charged aerosol particles from the air stream moving through the device; and an air mover, comprising a casing, for moving the air stream through the device; wherein the particle charger and the air mover are provided upstream of the filter; and wherein the housing of the particle charger is hermetically sealed to the casing of the air mover in the direction of air flow through the device, such that the particle charger and the air mover are intimately coupled together, whereby all air entering the device has to pass through both the particle charger and the air mover.

Abstract: A compressed air treatment chamber for improving the flow properties of compressed air or compressed gas mixtures in a coating process, comprising a housing for forming a hollow space, at least one air inlet opening and at least one air outlet opening are arranged in such a way that the compressed air or the compressed gas mixture can flow through the hollow space, preferably in a longitudinal direction, at least one electrode arranged within the hollow space, at least one high-voltage source for supplying high voltage to the electrode, wherein at least one insulation layer is arranged within the hollow space on an inner surface of an outer casing of the housing, and an electromagnetic field, with an active zone through which compressed air which is to be treated can flow, can be produced in the interior of the hollow space between the electrode and a counterelectrode.

Abstract: Provided are a solvent separation method, a solvent separation apparatus, and a solvent separation system that make it possible to easily collect a solvent removed from an exhaust atmosphere and that make it possible to easily carry out maintenance of exhaust gas pathways. An impeller placed in a storage space of a casing is rotated to introduce a gas including a volatilized solvent from an inlet of the casing into the storage space, and the volatilized solvent is cooled and devolatilized by a collection face that has been cooled so as to have a surface temperature lower than the temperature of the gas, to thereby separate the solvent from the gas.

Abstract: A high voltage power supply for an electrostatic precipitator comprises a high voltage transformer, a high voltage bridge rectifier and a semiconductor switch controller configured to control an output power level of the high voltage power supply. A control unit (50) is configured to determine a firing angle of firing pulses for the semiconductor switch controller. During normal operation, a peak voltage value is measured and stored in each half period. When a breakdown is detected, a residual voltage (Ur) over the electrostatic precipitator is measured. A firing angle (?1) of a firing pulse to be provided to said semiconductor switch controller in the first half period after the breakdown is determined from the latest stored measured peak voltage value (Ubef) and the measured residual voltage (Ur) based on a predetermined relationship between the firing angle (?1) and said measured voltages.

Abstract: An object of the present invention is to suppress a blockage caused by oil particles in an upstream side of a filter in an oil removal apparatus that collects oil particles in a filter disposed between an anode and a cathode. While an internal combustion engine is operative, application of a voltage to a bipolar electrode is controlled such that a voltage application period, in which the voltage is applied to the bipolar electrode, and a voltage application stoppage period, in which application of the voltage to the bipolar electrode is stopped, are repeated alternately at predetermined periodic intervals.