In recent European telecommunication base transceiver stations(BTS), a membrane laminated air filter is reported to replace a heat exchanger in order to cool internal digital units of BTS. The concept of using the air filter is for the direct ambient cooling (DAC) of BTS without heat loss generally found in the heat exchanger type BTS. In the present study, a performance evaluation experiment was conducted to investigate the pressure drop characteristics with dust loading and the particle collection efficiency of the air filter for the DAC of BTS. Finally, the long term operation lifetime of the air filter for BTS was suggested with a given fan rotation speed.

In recent models of semiconductor manufacturing clean rooms, air washers are used to remove airborne gaseous contaminants such as NH3, SOx and organic gases introduced from outdoor air into clean room. Meanwhile, there is a large quantity of exhaust air produced from clean room. It is desirable to recover heat from exhaust air and use it to reheat outdoor air. In the present study, an experiment was conducted to investigate heat recovery, particle collection, and gas removal in a heat recovery type air washer system for semiconductor manufacturing clean rooms.

In order to develop combination air filters for air conditioners, 2 types of charging section were constructed. One was the wire-plate type and the other was the scroll type. Each charging section was combined with the same electrostatic polypropylene (PP) media. NaCl aerosol particles with geometric mean diameter of 0.05∼0.16㎛, geometric standard deviation of 1.6∼1.9 and total number concentration of 1,700∼24,000 particles/㎤ were used to determine collection efficiencies of the combination air filters for air conditioners with respect to particle size. It was shown that the scroll type combination air filter has greater collection efficiencies and lower pressure drops than the wire-plate type one does.