<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> The paper deals with ionization impact on efficient cleaning of air in a measuring chamber which has been cleaned and closed against any outer impacts (e.g. impurities, dust from another room, human odours). Smoking has an impact on the number of positive and negative ions including the concentration of particulate matter PM10. We investigated the ion concentration according to the presence of cigarette smoke in the room and according to the change of lit cigarette distance from the supply of ionized air. Due to the experiment there was simulated smoking at the relative air humidity φ = 37 % and φ = 39 % and temperature of 20 °C in the room. Increased PM10 concentrations were caused only by cigarette smoke pollution or more precisely by artificially created higher humidity in the measuring room excluding ambient environment impacts. The aim of the experiments was to prove influence of ionization on the elimination of cigarette smoke. The measurements showed that the highest efficiency of PM10 particulate removal was achieved when the distance of smoking cigarettes from ionization source was 3 m and the air humidity was 39 %. The consequent increase of the distance of smoking cigarettes from the ionization source significantly decreased the efficiency of particle removal. The difference between ionized and natural air is minimal at the bigger distance.</abstract>

The paper deals with ionization impact on efficient cleaning of air in a measuring chamber which has been cleaned and closed against any outer impacts (e.g. impurities, dust from another room, human odours). Smoking has an impact on the number of positive and negative ions including the concentration of particulate matter PM10. We investigated the ion concentration according to the presence of cigarette smoke in the room and according to the change of lit cigarette distance from the supply of ionized air. Due to the experiment there was simulated smoking at the relative air humidity φ = 37 % and φ = 39 % and temperature of 20 °C in the room. Increased PM10 concentrations were caused only by cigarette smoke pollution or more precisely by artificially created higher humidity in the measuring room excluding ambient environment impacts. The aim of the experiments was to prove influence of ionization on the elimination of cigarette smoke. The measurements showed that the highest efficiency of PM10 particulate removal was achieved when the distance of smoking cigarettes from ionization source was 3 m and the air humidity was 39 %. The consequent increase of the distance of smoking cigarettes from the ionization source significantly decreased the efficiency of particle removal. The difference between ionized and natural air is minimal at the bigger distance.

Ionization Impact on the Air Cleaning Efficiency in the Interior

Department of Environmental and Forestry Machinery, Faculty of Environmental and Technology Manufacturing, Technical University in Zvolen, Masarykova 24, 960 53 Zvolen, Slovak Republic

Department of Machinery Control and Automation Technology, Faculty of Environmental and Technology Manufacturing, Technical University in Zvolen, Masarykova 24, 960 53 Zvolen, Slovak Republic

Institute of Applied Informatics, Automation and Mathematics, Faculty of Materials Science and Technology of Slovak University of Technology, Hajdóczyho 1, 917 24 Trnava, Slovak Republic

Measurement Science Review

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The paper deals with ionization impact on efficient cleaning of air in a measuring chamber which has been cleaned and closed against any outer impacts (e.g....

Ionization Impact on the Air Cleaning Efficiency in the Interior

Published Online: Aug 27, 2015

Page range: 156 - 166

Received: Nov 12, 2014

Accepted: Jul 30, 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/msr-2015-0023

Keywords
Ionization, particular matters, cigarette smoke, particle removal efficiency, positive and negative ions

© by Elena Pivarčiová

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Ionization Impact on the Air Cleaning Efficiency in the Interior

Published Online: Aug 27, 2015

Page range: 156 - 166

Received: Nov 12, 2014

Accepted: Jul 30, 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/msr-2015-0023

KeywordsIonization, particular matters, cigarette smoke, particle removal efficiency, positive and negative ions

© by Elena Pivarčiová

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Ionization, particular matters, cigarette smoke, particle removal efficiency, positive and negative ions