Indoor air quality control using lab scale air purifier tower
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Ratnesh Kumar Patel
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Prateek Khare
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Amit Kumar Thakur
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Vitthal L. Gole
Abstract
Population and industrialization growth is the major reason for the indoor air quality depletion. So, air quality control in sensitive area is needed to avoid air pollution-based hazards. Small economical air pollutant controlling equipment may be helpful in indoor air quality control. Present work covers the performance study of lab scale air purifier tower, 37 × 37 × 140 cm3 (LSAPT) for the removal of PM2.5, PM10 and TVOC from the polluted air in a control volume (75 m3). LSAPT follow 3 step pollutants removal procedure in which coarse particles are separated by prefilter and the fine particles are separated with the help of negative ioniser and activated carbon beds. More than 99 % of percentage of PM2.5, PM10 and TVOC removal are achieved within 100 s for initial pollutants loading of PM2.5: 1000 μg/m3 & PM10: 1000 μg/m3 and TVOC: 7.2 mg/m3 respectively. The assessment study suggests the proposed lab scale air purifier tower can be used continuously up to 10–15 days without much variation in pollutants removal efficacy. Approximately 7700 ₹ (92.40 US$) is used as installation cost and 30 ₹/hr (0.36 US$/hr) is used as consumable energy cost.
Funding source: Council of Science and Technology, Uttar Pradesh, India under Engineering students’ project grant scheme 2019–20
Acknowledgement
This work is ostensibly supported by the Council of Science and Technology, Uttar Pradesh, India under Engineering students’ project grant scheme 2019-20.
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Conflict of interest statement: The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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Research funding: Mr. Atul Pratap Singh & Dr. Ravi Shankar report financial support was provided by CST/UP/2019-20/262.
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- Frontmatter
- Special Issue Articles
- An experimental evaluation of green surfactants to stabilize silica nanofluids in saline conditions and its application in CO2 absorption
- Indoor air quality control using lab scale air purifier tower
- Green ultrasound-assisted extraction and life cycle assessment of lutein from marigold flowers using biocompatible surfactants
- Numerical analysis of various shapes of lozenge pin-fins in microchannel heat sink
- Extraction of biodiesel from pomelo peel and investigation of its efficiency as a lubricant in water-based drilling fluid
- Methyl-orange/reduced graphene oxide composite as the electrode material for the solid-state supercapacitor
- Efficiency and environmental stability of TiO2 based solar cells for green electricity production
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