Filter installations for suspended matter in flowing fluids, including filtration methods, uses and equipment and plants with filter installations. A device reducing the specific particle count of suspended matter by means of an energy input using ultrasound waves stabilized with electronic feedback loops and their harmonics in the fluids or in objects attached thereto. A flow pipe having a wall, which, on its outer side, its inner side, and/or in the wall has pairs of mutually opposite exciters of longitudinal waves and their harmonics, and/or reflectors, opposite the exciters of the flow pipe to a filter, which keeps the specific particle counts of the suspended matter in the filtered fluids to below the detectable limit.

An apparatus for creating a segregated volume of air, the apparatus including a plurality of ultrasound emitters configured to provide interfering ultrasound outputs at a location remote from the ultrasound emitters. The interfering ultrasound outputs are configured to create a region of modified air pressure of predetermined size, shape and distance from the ultrasound emitters which acts as an air-pressure barrier capable of: affecting transmission of sound across the air-pressure barrier; and/or affecting movement of air, an airborne object, airborne particles or molecules, or an object responsive to movement by air, across the air-pressure barrier; and creating, at a first boundary of the air-pressure barrier, a first volume of air and, at a second boundary of the air-pressure barrier, a second volume of air at least partially segregated from the first volume of air.

A turbine engine having an axial centerline is provided that includes a compressor section, a combustor section, an outer casing, an inner diffuser case, a turbine section, a particle separator, and a particle agglomerator. The outer casing is disposed radially outside of and spaced apart from an annular combustor. A diffuser outer diameter (OD) flow path is disposed radially between the outer casing and the outer combustor wall. The inner diffuser case is disposed radially inside of and spaced apart from the annular combustor. A diffuser inner diameter (ID) flow path is disposed radially between the inner combustor wall and the inner diffuser case. The particle agglomerator is configured to produce acoustic signals that causes agglomeration of particles entrained in an air flow within the turbine engine.