A filter element, for placement in a housing of a filter system, includes a filter medium pack and a seal arrangement having a seal and a seal carrier. The filter medium pack includes, for example, a pleated filter medium or a fluted filter medium. The seal carrier includes an axial side coupled to at least a portion of an axial face of the filter medium pack by a thermal welding manufacturing process. The coupling of the seal to the seal carrier is obtainable by manufacturing the seal arrangement with a multi-material injection molding manufacturing process. The present disclosure further relates to a method for manufacturing a filter element, the method including steps of thermal welding and multi-material injection molding.

A provided air filter medium is an air filter medium including a porous fluorine resin membrane, the air filter medium further including: a glass filter medium layer. The glass filter medium layer and the porous fluorine resin membrane are placed in this order from upstream to downstream of the air filter medium configured to allow an air flow to pass through the air filter medium. At a surface of the glass filter medium layer on an upstream side in a direction of the air flow, a carbon-to-silicon ratio (C/Si) evaluated by X-ray fluorescent analysis is 0.020 or more. This air filter medium is suitable for reducing a pressure drop increase even in an environment including liquid particles such as oil mist.

A fiber bed assembly and mist eliminator system operable to collect a liquid phase from a gas stream has a fiber bed with first and second collection layers of dense collection media having randomly positioned fibers. An intermediate drainage layer disposed between and abutting the first and second collection layers has drainage media composed of a highly ordered geometric mesh structure having a high void fraction. The drainage layer forms a lateral drainage channel immediately downstream of the first collection layer and generally perpendicular to the gas flow direction, and the drainage layer is operable to drain the liquid phase collected by the first collection layer, in a lateral flow direction through the drainage layer.

The present disclosure relates to a filter element comprising a filter medium pack and a support arrangement comprising at least a shell member, and wherein a portion of the shell member is thermally welded to a circumferential face of the filter medium pack. The present disclosure further relates to a method of manufacturing such a filter element, the method comprising heating at least a portion of the shell member of the support arrangement, positioning the shell member around the circumferential face of the filter medium pack, pushing the heated circumferential portion of the shell member against the circumferential face of the filter medium pack, and allowing the circumferential portion of the shell member to cool down.

A fiber bed assembly and mist eliminator system operable to collect a liquid phase from a gas stream has a fiber bed with first and second collection layers of dense collection media having randomly positioned fibers. An intermediate drainage layer disposed between and abutting the first and second collection layers has drainage media composed of a highly ordered geometric mesh structure having a high void fraction. The drainage layer forms a lateral drainage channel immediately downstream of the first collection layer and generally perpendicular to the gas flow direction, and the drainage layer is operable to drain the liquid phase collected by the first collection layer, in a lateral flow direction through the drainage layer.

A separation component for a filter element has a web-shaped support body with a top rim and a bottom rim. A web-shaped separator body covers a side face of the support body completely or partially. Support body and separator body are wound to a spiral shape with axially successive turns. The support body has a connecting fold at the top rim and at the bottom rim, respectively. The connecting folds engage each other in the axially successive turns of the spiral shape. The separation component can be manufactured by placing a web-shaped separator body onto a web-shaped support body and by winding support body and separator body to a spiral shape. During winding, a connecting fold at a top rim of a turn of the spiral shape and a connecting fold at a bottom rim of an axially successive turn are brought into engagement with each other.