air filter testing Articles

Contamination control is the key to a cost-effective maintenance operation for hydraulic or engine systems. You depend on your filters, whether hydraulic, lube or fuel, to keep your fluids clean, to keep maintenance costs down, and to ensure reliable operation. At some point, you probably will ask yourself whether or not your filters are really working and doing what they were designed to do. ...

Jul. 27, 2011

By American Filtration & Separations Society (AFS)

Cigarette smoke is an important aerosol in the air filtration industry and research. It is an unwanted aerosol and therefore there are many applications for air filtration (ex. cigarette filters, residential and commercial ventilation filters, home air cleaners). Cigarette smoke is especially important to air filter performance for several reasons. First, the size of cigarette smoke particles ...

Jul. 27, 2011

By American Filtration & Separations Society (AFS)

Permeability characteristics of civil engineering filter fabrics are currently evaluated by three types of tests: air permeability and falling-head and constant-head water permeability. Test procedures for the falling-head and constant-head water permeability tests are discussed, and results from these tests are correlated to air permeability results for filter fabrics. Several commercially ...

Aug. 31, 1978

By ASTM International

Problem Phoenix Technologies of  Bowling Green, OH  is a leading PET plastic recycler who was spending approximately $120,000 annually on replacement air filters. The Solution Phoenix sent us filters for testing and were satisfied that the Green Machine will be a perfect solution to dramatically lowering replacement filter ...

Dec. 31, 2010

By Diversitech

We all see it, the big Hepa sticker on the side so we automatically believe the vacuum must be a Hepa rated vacuum, right? - Sorry the chances are the Vacuum would never pass a Certified D.O.P test. Just because a vacuum has a Hepa filter doesn't make it a Hepa vacuum, many factors have to be taken into account such as: The Hepa Filter needs to be sized according to the airflow ...

Aug. 31, 2012

By Hypervac Technologies

This Technical Report Summary presents an overview of laboratory testing conducted at SwRI to evaluate the performance of a Diversi-Tech Green Filter Cleaning Machine under controlled laboratory conditions. In particular, the objective was to measure if and by how much, if any, airflow resistance, efficiency, and dust capacity changed for a given number of dust loading/filter cleaning cycles, ...

Jul. 20, 2011

By Diversitech

This Technical Report Summary presents an overview of laboratory testing conducted at SwRI to evaluate the performance of a Diversi-Tech Green Filter Cleaning Machine under controlled laboratory conditions. In particular, the objective was to measure if and by how much, if any, airflow resistance, efficiency, and dust capacity changed for a given number of dust loading/filter cleaning cycles, ...

Jun. 13, 2013

By Diversitech

It has been shown in recent studies that as much as 25% of the total site operating budget (excluding raw material costs) for a typical medium-large dosage-form manufacturing facility will be spent on compliance measures for internal quality systems and external regulatory activities. (1) Market realities indicate that the pharmaceutical companies will need to address the overall cost of ...

Dec. 31, 1998

By GVS Filter Technology