Particle microtrap screen
US6284025A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Oct 5, 1999 |
| Grant date | Sep 4, 2001 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 5, 2019 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY10S55/14
- WIPO fieldMeasurement
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A particle microtrap screen apparatus has an inlet, a jet orifice screen with multiple microjet orifices, and a microtrap plate having multiple microtraps spaced opposite the multiple microjet orifices for entrapping particles entrained by the jets and then released by the gas, and impacting in the microtraps with the energy imparted by the gas as the gas turns and flows between the jet orifice screen and the microtrap impact plate. Collection efficiencies of greater than 90% of particles, about 2 micrometers or larger in size, are experienced with pressure drops of less than 5 millimeters of water. The pressure drop does not increase upon increased loading with particles. The jet orifices have widths of D, about 0.5 millimeters, with spacing between orifices of about 5D and trap width and depth of about 4D and 2D, respectively, with about 2D spacing between the jet orifice screen and the microtrap plate. Ultraviolet lamps in a plenum on the inlet side of the jet orifice screen illuminate the particle traps through the jet orifices for sterilizing microorganisms within the particle traps. The jet orifices are circular or rectangular orifices.
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