Inverse Problem of Air Filtration of Nanoparticles: Optimal Quality Factors of Fibrous Filters

Shou, Dahua; Fan, Jintu; Ye, Lin; Zhang, Heng; Qian, Xiaoming; Zhang, Zhong

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Volume 2015 | Article ID 168392 | https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/168392

Inverse Problem of Air Filtration of Nanoparticles: Optimal Quality Factors of Fibrous Filters

Dahua Shou,^1,2Jintu Fan,¹Lin Ye,²Heng Zhang,³Xiaoming Qian,³and Zhong Zhang⁴

Academic Editor: David Cornu

Received20 Aug 2015

Accepted01 Oct 2015

Published05 Nov 2015

Abstract

Application of nanofibers has become an emerging approach to enhance filtration efficiency, but questions arise about the decrease in Quality factor (QF) for certain particles due to the rapidly increasing pressure drop. In this paper, we theoretically investigate the QF of dual-layer filters for filtration of monodisperse and polydisperse nanoparticles. The inverse problem of air filtration, as defined in this work, consists in determining the optimal construction of the two-layer fibrous filter with the maximum QF. In comparison to a single-layer substrate, improved QF values for dual-layer filters are found when a second layer with proper structural parameters is added. The influences of solidity, fiber diameter, filter thickness, face velocity, and particle size on the optimization of QF are studied. The maximum QF values for realistic polydisperse particles with a lognormal size distribution are also found. Furthermore, we propose a modified QF (MQF) accounting for the effects of energy cost and flow velocity, which are significant in certain operations. The optimal MQF of the dual-layer filter is found to be over twice that of the first layer. This work provides a quick tool for designing and optimizing fibrous structures with better performance for the air filtration of specific nanoparticles.

1. Introduction

The capture of nanoparticles from gas streams is critical in many fields, including protective clothing, respirators, air cabin filters, indoor air purifiers, and industrial air purification systems [1]. The filtration performance of fibrous filters is typically measured by the quality factor (QF), also known as the figure of merit, which is the ratio of the penetration rate of particles to the pressure drop across the filter [2],Here, is equal to , where is the total filtration efficiency of the filter. A dense and thick filter is often more efficient in particle filtration and has a higher flow resistance or , whereas a dilute and thin filter is more permeable and has a higher for particles. Hence, improvement of filter efficiency may compensate for an increase in the pressure drop. In this study, we focus on the evaluation of the filtration performance of fibrous filters, aiming to find the maximum QF with an optimal interplay between and .

The design of fibrous filters is based on the fact that filtration behavior is highly dependent on filter structure, particle size, and flow pattern. In general, filtration mechanisms that rely on mechanical capture include interception, diffusion, and inertial impaction [2]. A minimum at the most penetrating particle size (MPPS) usually exists between 0.1 and 0.5 μm due to the combined action of these filtration mechanisms, which have different sensitivities to particle size [3]. In comparison to coarse fibers, the use of fine fibers as a filter engenders a smaller MPPS and higher filtration efficiency. However, the pressure drop of filters composed of finer fibers becomes much greater as it decreases with the square of fiber radius, even for extremely fine nanofibers with a slip flow condition [4, 5]. Moreover, a random and inhomogeneous fiber arrangement makes the actual filter more permeable but less efficient in filtration than ordered fiber arrays [6–8]. Therefore, an inhomogeneity factor has been introduced to fit the order-based model to experimental results [9]. The filtration efficiency of filters varies with the face velocity and the MPPS shifts accordingly as well [10].

Utilization of nanofibers has become an emerging approach to enhance air filtration efficiency [11–16]. A composite of microfibers and nanofibers has been found to significantly improve the capture efficiency and QF for MPPS, whereas a single layer of nanofibers only leads to an increase in QF for very large particles [3, 17]. The QF for a dual-layer filter manufactured by the melt-blown technique is much higher than that of the microfiber substrate alone, as the increase in filtration efficiency is not overpaid with an excessive pressure drop [3]. Filtration tests have also indicated that a microfiber substrate layered by a single nanofiber mat of 0.15 μm diameter has a higher QF than conventional fiberglass filters for particles larger than 0.5 μm [18]. The QF for nanoparticles is observed to decline with a decrease in nanofiber diameter whereas the QF for larger particles increases with increasing nanofiber diameter [18]. It is believed that, for nanoparticles, the pressure drop increases more rapidly than the filtration efficiency due to diffusion; for large particles, the filtration efficiency predominated by interception and inertial impaction increases more rapidly than the pressure drop [17]. For a dual-layer filter with mean fiber diameters 14.7 μm and 0.208 μm, respectively, filtration performance has been found to decrease with face velocity [10]. This phenomenon is caused by the much lower likelihood for particles to collide on fibers through diffusion filtration at a smaller face velocity. Enhanced QF has also been observed in a thick layer alone in comparison to multiple thin layers of electrospun nanofibers, as multilayer filters have greater uniformity and smaller fiber sizes [19].

The QF of fibrous filters is also improved by modification of the morphology, including adding beaded nanofibers [20], coating multisize nanoparticles on electrospun nanofibers [21], depositing a low amount of carbon nanotube (CNT) films [22], and in situ growth of brush-like CNTs on quartz fibers [23, 24]. The results of increased QF and the possible explanations are summarized in Table 1.

The filtration quality of a clean filter is not sensitive to the deposition of particles in a short period, but it is strongly affected by particle loading over a long term [1]. With solid particles clogging to form a dust cake in the filter, flow resistance increases exponentially and penetration decreases at a given flow rate [1]. It is interesting to see that the deposited particles are more efficient in filtration than the fibers, as dendrite aggregate is formed with a high specific surface. To take into account continuous and unsteady loading of particles, a more realistic criterion of filtration performance, namely, the filter utility factor (FUF), has been proposed [25]. A cost-effective filter with higher dust-holding capacity has also been designed based on graded fibrous media [25]. The arrangement of a microfiber substrate in front of a nanofiber layer also gives a filter high filtration efficiency in the initial stage and a low increase in drop during continuous loading [26].

From the above discussion we find that there is less concern to design and optimize the fibrous filters to maximize the QF for nanoparticles. Layering of nanofibers onto a microfiber substrate leads to an increased QF over a certain range of particle size, but it may decrease the QF for the other particles. In practical filtration processes, the aim is often to capture particles of a specific size, such as the MPPS, the mean particle size, or the highest proportion particle size. Hence, as an inverse problem, in addition to avoiding any decrease in QF, we attempt in this paper to determine the optimal structural parameters that lead to the maximum QF for these target nanoparticles based on a dual-layer fibrous filter as illustrated in Figure 1. Here, the first layer is fixed while the second layer varies with different solidity, fiber diameter, and thickness. Furthermore, QF has been found not to be an energy-cost-based index [1]. To this end, we explore the filtration performance of dual-layer fibrous filters on the basis of a modified QF (MQF), by concerning energy cost and flow velocity.

2. Analysis of Theoretical Expressions

This study concerns the filtration of fine particles in clean filters. The assumptions are made that particle clogging is negligible and no particle rebounds from the fiber.

Filter efficiency is derived on the basis of single fiber efficiency (SFE), making a mass balance for particles in a given filter and integrating from the filter face to the exit [2],where is solidity, is fiber diameter, and is total SFE, which is calculated based on the assumption that different filtration mechanisms act independently [2]. is generally expressed as follows:where , , and are SFEs caused by diffusion, interception, and inertial impaction, respectively. By taking into account the aerodynamic slip on the SFE based on diffusion, the following expression is given for [27]:where is the Kuwabara hydrodynamic factor, which is equal to and is the Knudsen number given by . Here, is the mean free path of the gas molecules and the Peclet number is given as , where is the face velocity and is the diffusion coefficient of particles. is widely evaluated by the Stokes-Einstein equation [1]; namely,where is the temperature, is Boltzmann’s constant, is the slip factor, and is the gas viscosity. The expression of is given by

The SFE due to interception is given as follows [2]:where is the ratio of to . The model is accurate when . The SFE caused by the inertial effect is calculated as the following form [2]:where is the Stokes number, namely, , and is equal to for and when .

The pressure drop for nonwoven-like filters composed of randomly layered fibers is calculated as follows [5]:

In Figure 2, we examine the effects of filtration mechanisms on the QF of a single-layer fibrous filter. The QFs for diffusion-only, interception-only, inertial impaction-only, and the combined filtration mechanisms are compared at m/s, μm, , and mm. For nanoparticles (below 0.1 μm), the QF based on the combined filtration mechanisms decreases with an increase in particle size, approaching the diffusion-only QF. For micro and submicro particles (above 0.1 μm), the total QF based on the combined filtration mechanisms increases with an increase in particle size, which is consistent with the interception-only and inertial impaction-only cases. We find that diffusion filtration is dominant for nanoparticles and submicro particles (<1 μm) whereas interception and inertial impaction become more critical to the QF in the range of large particles (>3 μm). It is expected that very small particles are captured through random collision with fibers due to Brownian motion. Larger particles are intercepted by fibers in the path of the air stream or deviate from the path and then compact fibers due to inertia. The concave curves in Figure 2 indicate that the values of QF vary with particle size under different filtration mechanisms, which is similar to those of filtration efficiency. For improvement of QF, therefore, it is essential to consider all three filtration mechanisms simultaneously.

Capture of particles of a given size is of great interest in specific filtration. In Figure 3, we investigate the effect of fiber diameter on the QF of a single-layer filter, by capturing nanoparticles with diameters 0.01 μm, 0.05 μm, and 0.1 μm. The fiber diameter varies from 0.3 μm to 10 μm, the filter thickness is 1 mm, the face velocity is 0.1 m/s, and the solidity is 0.05. We observe that the QF for particles of 0.01 μm and 0.05 μm increases monotonously with the increase in fiber diameter. The reason is that the pressure drop decreases more rapidly than the decrease in filtration efficiency with increasing fiber diameter. For nanoparticles of 0.1 μm, it is interesting to find the minimum QF from the concave line in Figure 3. This phenomenon reveals the complexity of the dependence of the QF on the structural parameters, as the decrease in the pressure drop can be outweighed by the decrease in filtration efficiency.

In particle filtration by a dual-layer filter, the gas streams are purified layer by layer. Thus, the total penetration of particles is the product of the penetration of the two layers:where , , and are the penetrations for the total filter, the first layer, and the second layer, which are given by , , and , respectively. The subscript represents the first layer (e.g., , , and ) and the subscript indicates in the second layer (e.g., , , and ). The pressure drops are additive and the total pressure drop is the sum of the two local pressure drops:where , , and are the pressure drops for the total filter, the first layer, and the second layer, respectively.

On the basis of (10) and (11), the QF for the dual-layer filter is given by

The first layer is set as the control sample, so and are fixed. And the varies with the structural parameters of the second layer, namely, , , and .

For polydisperse particles, we obtain the total penetration by considering the distribution of particle size:where is the probability density function, which follows a lognormal distribution [28, 29]:where is the mean size of particles and is the scale parameter.

As mentioned earlier, a good filter should have high filtration efficiency and flow velocity at a low energy consumption. As such, we propose a modified QF (MQF), which is an energy-based indicator of filter performance:where is the energy cost of the filtration. is proportional to the pressure drop and the flow flux : namely, . Here, is expressed as , where is the cross-sectional area of the filter and is identical for both layers in a given filter system. Then, (15) is rewritten asMQF is simply equivalent to the ratio of to for a given filter, while it is calculated by concerning the effects of energy cost and flow velocity.

The two layers have the same based on conservation of the flow flux and (9); namely,

Thus, is determined by for a given filter. Similarly, can be calculated as a function of if we fix . In this study, we consider as the constraint for optimization of fibrous filters. Substituting (17) into (4), (8), (9), and (16), we have the MQF as follows:which is a function of .

4. Results and Discussion

To find the optimal filtration performance, we focus on investigating the QF for a dual-layer filter with the first layer fixed while the second layer varied (Figure 1). The models we employ in this paper, including (4), (7), and (8) for filtration efficiency of single-layer or dual-layer fibrous filters and (9) for pressure drop of fibrous filters, have been well verified by experimental results [5, 18]. The structural parameters of three types of the first, fixed layers are summarized in Table 2. The second layers have different solidity, thickness, and fiber diameter, and the face velocity is set as m/s. We focus mainly on the filtration of particles of a specific size, but we still examine the effect of the polydispersity degree of the particles on the QF. Since the filtration of nanoparticles is less understood [1] and the MPPS is often around 100 nm [3, 17], we focus on the QF of nanoparticles with nm and nm. It is noted that QF is not the only criterion by which the filter quality is measured [17]; the evaluation depends on target requirements and specific operating conditions. Thus, we also explore the MQF by considering the influence of energy cost and flow velocity.

For the filter of Type 1, variations of QF against and at m/s, nm, mm, and , 3, 9 mm are shown in Figure 4. The concave curves in Figure 4(a) indicate the optimal filters with the highest QF against when is equal to 0.1. The maximum QF results vary with the corresponding values of , which are around 0.04, 0.05, and 0.06 for , 3, 9 mm, respectively. In addition, the maximum QF increases with the increase in . It is noted that the three filters have the same QF when at the crossover of curves, and the dual-layer filter becomes a single-layer filter with its QF independent of thickness. When , the QF values decrease dramatically with the increase in , revealing the inefficiency of the filters in capturing the particles of nm. This finding is consistent with the experimental results that the highest QF is found within five different values of for a nanofiber-microfiber dual-layer filter [18]. For the filtration of the particles with nm, Figure 4(b) shows a similar trend of the QF against . However, the maximum QF values for nm are much smaller than those for nm. Hence, the dual-layer filters with μm have a better filtration performance for fine particles, which is similar to that of the single-layer filter. Figures 4(c) and 4(d) show the dependence of QF on for nm and nm, respectively. Here, we have , mm, and , 3, 9 mm. In Figure 4(c), the maximum QF results are found against , with the corresponding values of equal to 1.5 μm, 2 μm, and 2.5 μm for , 3, 9 mm, respectively. When is smaller than μm, the QF decreases considerably with the decrease in . Therefore, the addition of nanofibers onto the substrate or the first layer might not be reasonable in this case, although the filtration efficiency of nanofibers is much higher. In Figure 4(d), the maximum QF values for nm are much lower than those for nm in Figure 4(c). The maximum QFs observed in Figures 4(c) and 4(d) look slightly higher than the QF of a single-layer filter, but selection of the optimized second layer avoids the significant decline in QF caused by using inappropriate fibers. Figure 4 also demonstrates that two layers with close fiber diameters or solidity have higher QF than those with a very broad difference in fiber size or solidity.

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Figures 5 and 6 illustrate the dependence of the QF on the structural parameters for the dual-layer filters Type 2 and Type 3, respectively. As for Type 1, their maximum QF results are found at different thickness ratios, with the corresponding values of slightly smaller than while the corresponding values of are moderately larger than .

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In Figure 7 we study the effects of face velocity on the QF of the dual-layer filter against at nm, mm, μm, and . The maximum QF values are visible and they increase with the decrease in . It is feasible to argue that a smaller face velocity ensures more adequate contact between fibers and particles, yielding a higher QF. However, a very small can slow down the filtration processes even though the QF is satisfactory. Hence, we optimize the filter on the basis of the QF in the desired range of face velocity.

In Figure 8 we compare the QF values between monodisperse and polydisperse particles with the same mean particle size. The solidity of the second layer varies in Figure 8(a), with nm, , mm, mm, μm, and m/s. Figure 8(b) demonstrates the dependence of QF on the fiber diameter of the second layer , with nm, , mm, μm, and m/s. The particle size follows a lognormal distribution with different scale parameters . For the monodisperse particles, the maximum QF results are found for polydisperse particles. With increasing and the narrowing distribution of particle size, the maximum QF values increase as at but decrease as at . It is demonstrated that the value of QF of the dual-layer filter against polydisperse particles is increased by around 10% than that of the fixed single first layer, which is equivalent to the two-layer fibrous filter with the solidity of the second layer extremely small. When is very small, the QF curves of for polydisperse particles nearly overlap with those of monodisperse particles, as expected. It is interesting to note that the optimal structural parameters accounting for the maximum QF are close between monodisperse and the polydisperse particles.

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The maximum MQF values of the dual-layer filter against the solidity, the fiber diameter, and the thickness of the second layer are shown in Figures 9(a), 9(b), and 9(c), respectively. We set W and m² for a fibrous filter in a commercial respirator at m/s. The values of and are determined by the target filters and operating conditions. In Figure 9(a), we have , μm, mm, and nm, and the maximum MQF values of the dual-layer filter are found against at , 1, 2 μm. The maximum MQF results decrease with increases in and the corresponding values of vary considerably for different , which is unlike the QF responses. The optimal MQF of the dual-layer filter is found to be over twice of that of the fixed single first layer. In Figure 9(b), the maximum values of MQF are found against at , 0.01, 0.02, and they decline with increasing . The corresponding values of for the maximum MQF are smaller than , which is also unlike that for QF. Finally, in Figure 9(c) the dependence of MQF on is investigated at , 0.01, 0.02 with μm and , 1, 2 μm with . The maximum MQF increases with increasing but decreases with the increase in . Among the different cases, the values of corresponding to the maximum QF vary considerably, indicating the significance of choosing the appropriate thickness of the dual-layer filter to improve filtration performance. To summarize, the requisite conditions for the optimal QF are based on the fact that the total filtration efficiency has a slower decrease rate before the threshold of structural parameters is reached but then a faster decrease rate than the total pressure drop at the given energy cost.

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5. Conclusion

In this study, the filtration performance of the dual-layer fibrous filter is theoretically studied based on closed-form models. We find the best filter performance in terms of QF for the nanoparticles with a specific size such as the MPPS, the mean particle size, or the highest proportion of a given particle size. The findings are summarized as follows:(i)The maximum QF for the capture of monodisperse and polydisperse nanoparticles is found against the variation of solidity, thickness, and fiber diameter of the second layer, when the first layer is fixed.(ii)Under a given energy cost, the optimal filters are found with the highest MQF against variations of solidity, thickness, and fiber diameter of the second layer when the first layer is fixed.(iii)The optimal QF of the dual-layer filter is enhanced by around 10% than that of the fixed first layer, while the maximum MQF can be increased to be over twice in certain cases.(iv)The optimal structural parameters accounting for the maximum QF vary with face velocity and particle size distribution.

This work provides a quick tool to design and optimize fibrous filters with better filtration performance of nanoparticles. To avoid expensive computation, current studies are limited to the filter fibers with constant diameter and circular shape and they also assume negligible clogging of particles. The above concerns will be addressed in future work with the assistance of the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) technique. As well, optimization of the fiber surface roughness, the sizes of the nanorods grown on the fiber wall, and the clogging distribution in different filter layers will also be explored to prompt the best filtration performance.

Conflict of Interests

The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper.

Acknowledgment

The coauthors Jintu Fan and Xiaoming Qian acknowledge the funding support of Tianjin City Applied Foundation & Emerging Technology Research Program (Grant no. 15JCZDJC38500).

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Inverse Problem of Air Filtration of Nanoparticles: Optimal Quality Factors of Fibrous Filters

Abstract

1. Introduction

2. Analysis of Theoretical Expressions

3. QF and MQF of Dual-Layer Filters

4. Results and Discussion

5. Conclusion

Conflict of Interests

Acknowledgment

References

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