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Document ID (ISN)23571
CIS number 75-1282
ISBN(s) 0-08-016750-0
Year 1974
Convention or series no.
Author(s) Dorman R.G.
Title Dust control and air cleaning.
Bibliographic information International Series of Monographs in Heating, Ventilation and Refrigeration, Vol.9, Pergamon Press Ltd., Headington Hill Hall, Oxford, United Kingdom, 1974. 634p. Illus. 569 ref. Price: £18.00.
Abstract This book covers the whole field indicated by its title, including the hazards of industrial dusts, the dynamics and sampling of airborne particles, and a large chapter on the methods employed in industry for their removal. Contents: airborne particles and health (Walton W.H.); dynamics of particles; sampling; control at source and flow in ducts; settlement, impaction, and simple centrifuges; removal of particles by wet scrubbing; cyclone dust separators (Walton W.H.); electrostatic precipitators (Brown E.L.); filtration theory and experiment; filter materials and practical filters; filter testing; air cleaning in the atomic energy industry (Dyment J.); clean rooms (Dyment J.); dust control in the mining industry (Hamilton R.J.); air pollution; choice and economics of air cleaners; appendices (acoustic coagulation, removal of gaseous pollution, conversion table); author index; subject index.
Descriptors (primary) air purification; pollution control; dust; dust control
Descriptors (secondary) centrifugal dust collectors; filter testing; acoustic coagulation; United Kingdom; particle dynamics; manuals; inertial dust collectors; cyclones; filter dust collectors; wet dust collectors; electrostatic precipitators; economic aspects; nuclear power stations; gas cleaning; atmospheric pollution; health hazards; air sampling; mining industry; airborne dust
Document type E - Books, reports, proceedings
Subject(s) Dust, aerosols and related diseases
Broad subject area(s)
Browse category(ies) Pollution control
Heating and air conditioning