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https://en.inrs.fr/home/our-activities/studies-and-research/studies-publications-communications/doc/publication.html?refINRS=EL2014-015%2FP2016-059
Scavenging aerosol particles by droplets is an efficient way of removing solid particles from gases. Despite its interest for both industrial applications and occupational health, predicting realistic removal rates by means of a simple collection…
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https://en.inrs.fr/home/our-activities/studies-and-research/studies-publications-communications/doc/publication.html?refINRS=ET2012-002%2FP2014-133
The elimination of methanal, a carcinogenic compound, has become a priority for industrial or hospital effluent treatment. This study aims to highlight the ability of photocatalysis to degrade methanal and to obtain the corresponding kinetic…
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https://en.inrs.fr/home/our-activities/studies-and-research/studies-publications-communications/doc/publication.html?refINRS=ET2013-004%2FP2013-175
Fibrous media embody the most effective and widely used method of separating ultrafine particles from a carrier fluid. The main problem associated with them is filter clogging, which induces an increasingly marked pressure drop with time and…
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https://en.inrs.fr/home/our-activities/studies-and-research/studies-publications-communications/doc/publication.html?refINRS=ET2013-006%2FP2014-021
The general approach for the prevention of occupational risks recommends first to put in place global protection like ventilated enclosure and then to use Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to improve protection. But PPE are very common today…
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https://en.inrs.fr/home/our-activities/studies-and-research/studies-publications-communications/doc/publication.html?refINRS=ET2012-002%2FP2013-149
Formaldehyde is toxic to humans and is classed as a category 1 carcinogen. Methods have been developed to degrade this compound, but for industrial application, relevant mathematical models are required. This study models a fixed bed photocatalytic…
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Some authors highlighted that during the filtration of ultrafine particles, the deposit is essentially located in the first layers of the granular bed. Thus, only a small depth is useful thereby reducing both the operation time between each unclogging…
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https://en.inrs.fr/home/our-activities/studies-and-research/studies-publications-communications/doc/publication.html?refINRS=ET2013-004%2FP2013-193
Nanometric particles localized in workplace environments mainly stem from two sources: on the one hand, nanoparticles which are manufactured in more and more industrial applications and on the other hand, ultrafine particles generated by…
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https://en.inrs.fr/home/our-activities/studies-and-research/studies-publications-communications/doc/publication.html?refINRS=NOETUDE%2FP2015-057
The anthropogenic substances e.g. urea, ammonia, amino acids and creatinine, found in large quantities in swimming pools, are involved in a very complex series of reactions with chlorine. This leads to the formation of by-products such as trihalomethanes…
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https://en.inrs.fr/home/our-activities/studies-and-research/studies-publications-communications/doc/publication.html?refINRS=ET2012-002%2FP2013-163
This study deals the elimination of formaldehyde present in air of weakly ventilated office by the installation of a purification stand-alone device functioning by photocatalytic oxidation. The process consists first in absorbing gaseous…
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https://en.inrs.fr/home/our-activities/studies-and-research/studies-publications-communications/doc/publication.html?refINRS=ET2013-004%2FP2013-170
The most effective and widely used dust separation techniques to separate ultrafine particles of a carrier fluid are fibrous media. The main problem is the clogging of the filter that induces a pressure drop increase over time and thus requires…