This study successfully prepared high-porosity aluminosilicate fibrous porous ceramics through vacuum suction filtration using aluminosilicate fiber as the primary raw material and glass powder as binder, with the appropriate incorporation of glass fiber. The effects of the composition of raw materials and sintering process on the structure and properties of the material were studied. The results show that when the content of glass powder reached 20 wt% and the samples were sintered at the temperature of 1,000 °C, strong bonds were formed between the binder phase and fibers, resulting in a compressive strength of 0.63 MPa. When the sintering temperatures were increased from 1,000 °C to 1,200, the open porosity of the samples decreased from 89.08 % to 82.38 %, while the linear shrinkage increased from 1.13 % to 10.17 %. Meanwhile, during the sintering process, a large amount of cristobalite and mullite were precipitated from the aluminosilicate fibers, which reduced the performance of the aluminosilicate fibers and hindered the comprehensive improvement in sample performance. Based on these conditions, after adding 30 wt% glass fiber and being sintered at 1,000 °C, the sample exhibited higher compressive strength (1.34 MPa), higher open porosity (89.13 %), and lower linear shrinkage (5.26 %). The aluminosilicate fibrous porous ceramic samples exhibited excellent permeability performance due to their high porosity and interconnected three-dimensional pore structures. When the samples were filtered at a flow rate of 150 mL/min, the measured pressure drop and permeability were 0.56 KPa and 0.77 × 10-6 m2 respectively.

A study is conducted to improve the suction performance of suction devices which are used to remove polluted air generated by welding or machining process at a spacious working place in industries. Air-curtain is applied around the suction inlet not only to prevent absorbing fresh air from the downstream region but also to improve the suction performance from the upstream region. Four different type air-curtain devices, such as forward, sideward, 45^° backward and fully backward, are adopted. Suction effect was investigated depending on the mass flowrate blowing to generate air-curtain. Suction condition is selected to 110,000 Reynolds number which has been widely used on typical suction devices, and a width of blowing passage is chosen to 10% of suction duct diameter. Comparing the computed results, the 45^° backward air-curtain method was superior to others. When the blowing mass flowrate was 42% of the suction mass flowrate, the suction region was improved to 38% compared to that of without air-curtain.

An air suction skimmer was selected as a potable skimmer to be developed among the many reviewed skimmers because of its advantages such as simple structure, excellent transportability, and easy deployment. A prototype of the skimmer was fabricated. It was shown that the skimmer operated by a commercial vacuum cleaner has good performance. The maximum suction rate of water and the maximum suction head were 18㎥/㏊ and 2.7m, respectively.