Design and Characterization of Electrospun Polyamide Nanofiber Media for Air Filtration Applications

Table 2

Characteristics of tested filter media.

Filter media	Experiment number; (or based on experiment number)	Fiber diameter,; nm	Basis weight,; g/m^2	Filtration efficiency at, %		Pressure drop, Pa	QF at, Pa^−1; 100 nm	QF at, Pa^−1; 300 nm
				100 nm	300 nm
PA6/6_10	5	62	0.31	37.9±3.47	52.0±1.81	9.8±0.44	0.0486	0.0749
PA6/6_20	5	62	0.36	60.8±2.22	71.9±2.95	25.6±1.78	0.0366	0.0496
PA6/6_30	5	66	0.46	84.9±1.08	90.9±3.28	69.7±2.70	0.0271	0.0344
PA6/6_10l	11	376	0.41	28.2±3.41	21.9±1.15	11.0±0.28	0.0301	0.0225
PA6_10	30	225	0.38	39.9±0.51	33.8±2.76	14.1±2.12	0.0361	0.0293
PA6_20	30	228	0.48	55.6±1.15	57.1±0.66	35.6±1.91	0.0228	0.0237
PA6_30	30	230	0.75	87.7±2.03	87.0±2.56	105.2±1.91	0.0199	0.0194