Preparation and characterization of porous composite filter medium by polytetrafluoroethylene foam coating.

The high costs of ceramic and Teflon filter media for hot gas cleaning has limited their industrial applications. This paper presents a foam coating technology that can be used to produce an inexpensive and highly efficient filter for industrial applications. A new apparatus was designed and built that coats porous glass mats with liquid-phase polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE). The machine generates bubbles, enables the formation of uniform micropores less than 45 microm in diameter, and produces a product with air permeability greater than 5.5 cm3/cm2/sec. The resulting filter was found to be thermally stable up to 270 degrees C without any visible distortion and was comparable in dust collection efficiency to other commercial filter media. In addition, its de-dusting efficiency was greater than 85%, which is similar to that of other test filter media.

Degradation of gas-phase trichloroethylene over thin-film TiO2 photocatalyst in multi-modules reactor.

The present paper examined the photocatalytic degradation (PCD) of gas-phase trichloroethylene (TCE) over thin-film TiO2. A large-scale treatment of TCE was carried out using scale-up continuous flow photo-reactor in which nine reactors were arranged in parallel and series. The parallel or serial arrangement is a significant factor to determine the special arrangement of whole reactor module as well as to compact the multi-modules in a continuous flow reactor. The conversion of TCE according to the space time was nearly same for parallel and serial connection of the reactors.