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Title: The high efficiency steel filters for nuclear air cleaning

Abstract

We have, in cooperation with industry, developed high-efficiency filters made from sintered stainless-steel fibers for use in several air-cleaning applications in the nuclear industry. These filters were developed to overcome the failure modes in present high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filters. HEPA filters are made from glass paper and glue, and they may fail when they get hot or wet and when they are overpressured. In developing our steel filters, we first evaluated the commercially available stainless-steel filter media made from sintered powder and sintered fiber. The sintered-fiber media performed much better than sintered-powder media, and the best media had the smallest fiber diameter. Using the best media, we then built prototype filters for venting compressed gases and evaluated them in our automated filter tester. 12 refs., 20 figs.

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (USA)
Sponsoring Org.:
DOE/DP
OSTI Identifier:
6618082
Report Number(s):
UCRL-JC-104586; CONF-900809-2
ON: DE90016472; TRN: 90-028638
DOE Contract Number:  
W-7405-ENG-48
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: 21. DOE/NRC nuclear air cleaning conference, San Diego, CA (USA), 13-16 Aug 1990
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
42 ENGINEERING; 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; AIR FILTERS; EVALUATION; AIR CLEANING; EFFICIENCY; PARTICULATES; RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS; TESTING; CLEANING; EQUIPMENT; FILTERS; MATERIALS; PARTICLES; POLLUTION CONTROL EQUIPMENT; 420202* - Engineering- Protective Structures & Equipment; 540130 - Environment, Atmospheric- Radioactive Materials Monitoring & Transport- (1990-)

Citation Formats

Bergman, W, Larsen, G, Lopez, R, Williams, K, and Violet, C. The high efficiency steel filters for nuclear air cleaning. United States: N. p., 1990. Web.
Bergman, W, Larsen, G, Lopez, R, Williams, K, & Violet, C. The high efficiency steel filters for nuclear air cleaning. United States.
Bergman, W, Larsen, G, Lopez, R, Williams, K, and Violet, C. 1990. "The high efficiency steel filters for nuclear air cleaning". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/6618082.
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abstractNote = {We have, in cooperation with industry, developed high-efficiency filters made from sintered stainless-steel fibers for use in several air-cleaning applications in the nuclear industry. These filters were developed to overcome the failure modes in present high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filters. HEPA filters are made from glass paper and glue, and they may fail when they get hot or wet and when they are overpressured. In developing our steel filters, we first evaluated the commercially available stainless-steel filter media made from sintered powder and sintered fiber. The sintered-fiber media performed much better than sintered-powder media, and the best media had the smallest fiber diameter. Using the best media, we then built prototype filters for venting compressed gases and evaluated them in our automated filter tester. 12 refs., 20 figs.},
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place = {United States},
year = {Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 1990},
month = {Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 1990}
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