Superwettability effects on oil-mist coalescing fibrous filters

该项目旨在提供有关如何使用表面工程技术生产高效节能纤维过滤器的新知识，用于从气流中分离油雾。重点是解决当前一代聚结过滤器去除小于1微米油雾效率低的挑战。该项目将产生新的方法来精确控制纤维表面润湿性和纤维过滤器内的排油。新的知识和开发的聚结过滤器将有利于科学和工业领域，包括金属加工，汽车，工程和制造，电子，食品，医院，采矿，制药和能源生产。

This project aims to provide new knowledge about how to use surface engineering techniques to produce highly efficient, energy-saving fibrous filters for separating oil mists from air streams. The focus is to address the challenge of the low efficiency of current generation coalescing filters for removal of oil mists smaller than one micrometre. The project will result in new methods to precisely control fibre surface wettability and oil drainage within fibrous filters. The new knowledge and coalescing filters developed will benefit scientific and industrial fields including metal processing, automotive, engineering and manufacturing, electronics, food, hospital, mining, pharmaceuticals and energy generation.