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An advanced facility for assessing the impact of particulate matter (PM) mitigation strategies and technologies.

This application relates to the purchase of new infrastructure for setting up an advanced facility for assessing the impact of particulate matter (PM) mitigation strategies and technologies, one of the core domains of the applicants. To this end, accurate generation and quantification of PM is crucial. The research group Sustainable Energy, Air & Water Technology therefore requests two setups to cover all size fractions of PM that are associated with urban air pollution, namely ultrafine PM (<0.1 μm), fine (<2.5 μm) and coarse PM (> 10 μm). With the requested equipment, we can load air with a controlled PM concentration and size distribution, which can be guided to a wind tunnel setup to investigate PM deposition on vegetation or to air purifiers to test the physical removal or chemical transformation of PM. The concentration and distribution of PM is selected such that they mimic PM pollution outdoors and indoors.
Date:1 Jan 2020 →  31 Dec 2021
Keywords:AIR PURIFICATION, MEASUREMENT INSTRUMENTS, AIR PARTICULATE MATTER
Disciplines:Sustainable buildings and cities, Air pollution and control, Environmental technologies, Fluid mechanics and fluid dynamics