Filtration Properties of Electrospun Ultrafine Fiber Webs

Hyun-Seol Park; Young Ok Park

Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering, Vol.22, No.1, 165-172, January, 2005

DOI10.1007/BF02701480 Export Citation

Filtration Properties of Electrospun Ultrafine Fiber Webs

Hyun-Seol Park^†, and Young Ok Park

Clean Air Technology Research Center, Korea Institute of Energy Research, 71-2, Jang-Dong, Yusung-Gu, Daejeon 305-343, Korea

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Electrospun fiber webs were prepared at various spinning conditions. The effect of electrospinning parameters on fiber morphology and filtration performance of electrospun webs was investigated. The processing variables considered were only the applied voltage and rotation speed of a drum type collector. The fiber diameter and mean pore size of the electrospun webs decreased with increasing applied voltage and collector speed. Pressure drop and aerosol collection efficiency of the electrospun fiber webs were increased with decreasing fiber and pore size. Additionally, it was found that the filtration performance of the electrospun web was much greater than that of a commercial high efficiency air filter media made of glass fibers.

Keywords:Electrospinning;Electrospun Fiber;Filtration Performance;Aerosol Collection Efficiency;Pressure Drop

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[1] ASTM D 737, "Standard Test Method for Air Permeability of Textile Fabrics", Annual Book of ASTM Standards (1996)

[2] Brown RC, Air Filtration: An Integrated Approach to the Theory and Applications of Fibrous Filters, Pergamon Press (1993)

[3] Buchko CJ, Chen LC, Shen Y, Martin DC, Polymer, 40(26), 7397 (1999)

[4] Deitzel JM, Kleinmeyer J, Harris D, Tan NCB, Polymer, 42(1), 261 (2001)

[5] Deitzel JM, Kleinmeyer JD, Hirvonen JK, Tan NCB, Polymer, 42(19), 8163 (2001)

[6] Doshi J, Reneker DH, J. Electrost., 35, 151 (1995)

[7] Fong H, Chun I, Reneker DH, Polymer, 40(16), 4585 (1999)

[8] Fong H, Liu WD, Wang CS, Vaia RA, Polymer, 43(3), 775 (2002)

[9] Frenot A, Chronakis IS, Curr. Opin. Colloid Interface Sci., 8, 64 (2003)

[10] Gibson P, Schreuder-Gibson H, Rivin D, Colloids Surf. A: Physicochem. Eng. Asp., 187, 469 (2001)

[11] Lee KW, Liu BYH, J. Air Pollution Control Association, 30, 377 (1980)

[12] Park HS, "Filtration Characteristics of Electrospun Nanofiber Air Filter Media", Ph.D. Thesis, Kwangju Institute of Science and Technology (2004)

[13] Park YO, Park HS, Park SJ, Kim SD, Choi HK, Lim JH, Korean J. Chem. Eng., 18(6), 1020 (2001)

[14] Reist PC, Aerosol Science and Technology, 2nd ed., McGraw Hill (1993)

[15] Tsai PP, Schreuder-Gibson H, Gibson P, J. Electrost., 54, 333 (2003)