Journal of Material Sciences & Engineering

Prakash Khude

Publications

• Review Article
  Nanofibers for High Efficiency Filtration
  Author(s): Prakash KhudePrakash Khude
  
  Nanofiber is a broad phrase generally referring to a fibre with a diameter less than 1 micron. While glass fibres have existed in the sub-micron range for some time and polymeric meltblown fibres are just beginning to break the micron barrier, sub-half-micron diameters have been used for air filtration in commercial, industrial and defence applications for more than twenty years. They have been shown to deliver improved filter life, increased contaminate holding capacity and enhanced filtration efficiency. Small fibres in the sub-micron range, in comparison with larger ones, are well known to provide higher filter efficiency at the same pressure drop in the interception and inertial impaction stages of the filtration process. In particular, nanofibers provide marked increases in filtration efficiency at relatively small (and in some cases immeasurable) decreases in permeability. Nanof.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2169-0022.1000399

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