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Fiberbed Filters
Joe Mayo
Air-Clear, LLC, Frazer, Pennsylvania
8.1 Device Type
Fiberbed filters are specialized filtration devices that are primarily designed to coalesce and capture liquid contaminants such as acid mists and aerosols, the viscosity of which is low enough that they flow or can be made to flow from the fiberbed surface.
The design gets its name from the medium used. It consists of micron-size fibers that are compressed tightly in a mat or bed, which provides the surface area and gas path thickness needed to capture the pollutant.
These designs are somewhat related to filament/mesh scrubbers in which they utilize target fibers in a wet environment. The fiberbed filter fibers, however, are in 5–15-μm diameter range, or ...
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