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Assessment of a portable air cleaning device performance in eliminating indoor air contaminants by considering particle transport characteristics

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Gür, Miray
Kılıç, Muhsin

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Human health is significantly impacted by the quality of the air in living areas. Numerous factors, such as the kind of particle, clean air delivery rate, room geometry, surface features, and thermal plume produced by people or other equipment, all have an impact on indoor particle movement. This work uses computational fluid dynamics to quantitatively examine the performance of a portable air purifier that is routinely used to improve the indoor air quality of a room. The volumetric flow rate, particle diameter, and placement of the air cleaner device were considered in the assessment of the particle transport characteristics. The temperature, velocity, and age of the air distribution in the room were computed in three-dimensional simulations, and the effectiveness of the air cleaning device (ACD) in eliminating contaminants was then investigated. Clean air delivery rate (CADR), collection efficiency, and particle concentration rate values were also computed for every case that was taken into consideration. It is found that CADR and collection efficiency values for larger particles are about 2-7% better than those for smaller particles. The collection efficiency of ACD with different operating conditions is in the range of 71% to 87%. Better collection performance parameters are observed with higher flow rates.

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Numerical-analysis, Heat-transfer, Moisture transport, Flow, Room, Environment, Motion, Cabin, Size, Indoor air quality, Particle, Air cleaning device, Pollutant concentration, Age of air, Science & technology, Physical sciences, Technology, Chemistry, multidisciplinary, Engineering, multidisciplinary, Materials science, multidisciplinary, Physics, applied, Chemistry, Engineering, Materials science, Physics

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