AAAR 36th Annual Conference October 16 - October 20, 2017 Raleigh Convention Center Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
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Analysis of Air Cleaner Test Results with Korea Air Cleaning Association Certificate from 2003 to 2015
Chang-gyu Woo, Bangwoo Han, Hak-Joon Kim, YONG-JIN KIM, Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials
Abstract Number: 703 Working Group: Indoor Aerosols
Abstract Recently, high concentration of fine particulate matter in the Korean peninsula draws much attentions. People are staying more time in indoor and the threat of high concentration of particulate matter to human health has been identified. The market size of air cleaner of Korea is on the increase. Estimators are saying that the market size would be $1.3 billion by the end of 2017.
In Korea, the collective quality certification system for the indoor air cleaners was operated from 2003 according to SPS-KACA002-132. As fulfilling the standard, 'Clean Air' mark is given to the product by the Korea Air Cleaning Association. The standard is comprised of collection efficiency, clean air delivery rate, odor removal efficiency, ozone emission and noise level. Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials is performing the air cleaner tests as one of the association’s standard performance test agencies from 2003. The test results over 354 Clean Air-certified air cleaners from 2003 to 2015 was analyzed for the development trend and product evaluation. The average air flowrate of most air cleaners was 5.6 m3/min. The flowrate was on the increasing trend. The average Clean Air Delivery Rate was 4.5 m3/min and it was proportional to flowrate with about 0.8 times. The operating type of air cleaner was all mechanical filter since 2012.
This work is supported by the Technology Innovation Program of the Korea Institute of Energy Technology Evaluation and Planning (KETEP) grant funded by the Korea government Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (No. 20161110100210) as well as General Research Fund (SC1250) and Air Cleaning Equipment Test Fund (B16341) from the Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials.