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 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.

In order to obtain the optimal design of a char removal cyclone, the effect of the vortex finder height and inlet shapeon its performance are numerically carried out. The pressure drop and collection efficiency are calculated for four differentcyclones with different vortex finder heights and inlet shapes. To validate the present numerical process, the calculatedpressure drops for two types of cyclones are compared with experimental results and the results show a good agreementbetween experimental and numerical results. From the results, increasing the height of the vortex finder, the collectionefficiency is increased. As for cyclone inlet shapes, the tangential one is characterized by lower efficiency compared withthe volute counterpart. The current result can be used for the design of cyclones with high collection efficiency, especiallyfor removing tiny char which is generated during fast pyrolysis process of waste biomass.