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Virus filtration performance of residential HVAC filters
As the COVID-19 pandemic has spread and made its impact worldwide, air filtration has risen to prominence as a potential solution to the spread of viral contagions, as well as in addressing air pollution in general. In the United States, high-efficiency HVAC filters and RAPs (room air purifiers) are widely used for mitigating indoor particulate …
COVID-19 UPDATE: Researchers employ copper foam to filter microbes in facemasks and air filtration systems
With COVID-19 having an impact worldwide, International Filtration News is tracking stories relevant to the filtration industry. Filtration media for facemasks and respirators are at the forefront of the COVID-19 response effort, and meeting the demand for these types of filter media is proving to be a challenge. As manufacturers of filter media and others …
A hidden filtration performer with applications that are simply everywhere
Nitto Denko Corporation’s TEMISH engineered porous PTFE membrane has applications ranging from ULPA and HEPA clean rooms to industrial uses, such as dust collection in power plants and protection for offshore gas turbines. A huge additional market is in often tiny high-performance filters as venting materials for many consumer devices. No compromise The water repellency …
The N80 cometh
Early on in the COVID-19 pandemic, INDA, The Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry, was hard at work connecting nonwovens producers with medical facemask, surgical gown and wet wipe manufacturers. Electrostatically charged meltblown media was especially critical, as it is the workhorse of N95-rated facemasks here in the U.S., as well as other high-performance masks …
Nanofiber filter media for a range of air filtration applications
HIFYBER is part of the Turkish holding company Abalioglu, which has 2,500 employees with $1.3 billion USD in turnover, operating on four continents. We are experienced in production of polymeric nanofiber-based filter media for various filtration applications on a mass scale. Our innovative nanofiber production technology represents a major breakthrough in air and liquid filtration …