A method for removing contaminants from exhaust air and liquid using a disinfection device comprising a housing having a chamber and a top end. The chamber has a body and a reducing part. The reducing part comprises a first opening at the bottom end of the chamber and a floating body configured to seal the first opening at the bottom end. The disinfection device further comprises a spiral guiding channel having an inlet and an outlet connecting to the chamber; and an exhaust conduit having an expandable part at one end of the exhaust conduit. The exhaust conduit connects to the top end of the housing and partially extends through the body of the chamber. A nonluminous disinfection part is installed in the disinfection device interior so as to remove air contaminants when air is passing through the chamber from the spiral guiding channel to the exhaust conduit.

A recyclable ceramic catalyst filter, a filtering system including the same, and a method of managing the filtering system are provided. The ceramic catalyst filter has a monolithic structure including a first surface which blocks a first material; and a second surface which removes a second material that passed through the first surface, where the second surface is activated and operates as a catalyst layer which removes the second material in response to energy supplied to the second surface.

A photocatalytic reactor housing having a longitudinal axis allowing a fluid to flow through; a frame holding a light source and blades substantially encompassing the light source around the longitudinal axis; each blade having an interior surface facing the light source and an exterior surface opposite the interior surface; at least a portion of the surface of a plurality of the blades having a coating of material with photocatalytic oxidative properties; and the interior surface of the blade configured to redirect some amount of the light emitted onto another portion of substrate of an adjacent blade. In one embodiment the blades are tilted in the radial direction along at least a portion of the blades. In one embodiment the interior surface is configured to reflect some of the light emitted by the light source on to at least a portion of the exterior surface of an adjacent blade.

Provided are a catalyst structure for ozone decomposition including a support containing a porous inorganic material, and an α-MnO.sub.2 catalyst located on at least a portion of inner pores and a surface of the support, an air-cleaning method using the same, and an air-cleaning device and an air-cleaning system each including the catalyst structure for ozone decomposition.

A heater element with a functional material-containing layer includes: a honeycomb structure including an outer peripheral wall and partition walls disposed on an inner side of the outer peripheral wall, the partition walls defining a plurality of cells, each of the cells extending from a first end face to a second end face to form a flow path, at least the partition walls being made of a material having a PTC property; a pair of electrodes provided on the first end face and the second end face of the honeycomb structure; and a functional material-containing layer provided on a surface of the partition walls.

A filter bag is disclosed that comprises a porous membrane having a strength in the transverse direction to improve durability. There is a filter assembly for filtering particulates from a gas stream comprising a support substructure and a filter bag at least partially surrounding the support substructure. The filter bag comprises a porous membrane having a upstream surface exposed to the gas stream. The porous membrane is lightweight and has a structure to collect the particulates on the upstream surface. In particular, the porous membrane has a bubble point of 0.06 MPa or more and has a strength in a transverse direction that is 100 N/m or more. Other filter bags disclosed comprise a laminate comprising a porous membrane having a bubble point of 0.06 MPa or more and a second layer that acts as a sacrificial material.

A compact lightweight air filtration system is disclosed. The air filtration system includes a hydrophobic particulate/coalescing filter and a cleanable ozone converter housed in a housing with an inlet and an outlet. Air flowing from the inlet to the outlet passes through the particulate/coalescing filter element and then the cleanable ozone converter to remove particulates, aerosols, liquids, and ozone. The air filtration system may comprise a fuel tank inerting system (FTIS) filter assembly. The FTIS filter assembly may include a binderless media (no binder) suitable for use in high temperatures. The FTIS filter assembly includes a catalytic converter configured to adsorb one or more VOCs, such as Toluene, Propylene Glycol (C.sub.3H.sub.8O.sub.2), Pentanoic Acid, Butane (C.sub.4H.sub.10), Formaldehyde (CH.sub.2O), and Carbon Dioxide (CO.sub.2).

A food waste disposer including a housing, a container disposed inside the housing and provided to accommodate food waste, an exhaust duct communicating with the container and provided to allow exhaust gas generated in the container to flow therein, a filter device including a catalytic filter part configured to filter the exhaust gas passed through the exhaust duct, and a deodorizing filter part configured to filter the exhaust gas passed through the catalytic filter part and communicating with an outside of the housing, and a condensation chamber configured to remove moisture in the exhaust gas flowing from the exhaust duct into the catalytic filter part of the filter device.

A food waste disposer including a housing, a container disposed inside the housing and provided to accommodate food waste, an exhaust duct communicating with the container and provided to allow exhaust gas generated in the container to flow therein, a filter device including a catalytic filter part configured to filter the exhaust gas passed through the exhaust duct, and a deodorizing filter part configured to filter the exhaust gas passed through the catalytic filter part and communicating with an outside of the housing, and a condensation chamber configured to remove moisture in the exhaust gas flowing from the exhaust duct into the catalytic filter part of the filter device.

A honeycomb structure includes a pillar-shaped honeycomb structure body having a porous partition wall defining a plurality of cells serving as fluid through channel extending from an inflow end face to an outflow end face; and a circumferential wall surrounding the partition wall, wherein in a plane orthogonal to cell extending direction, the honeycomb structure body has a circumferential cell structure, a center cell structure having a cell structure different from the circumferential cell structure, and a boundary wall, the honeycomb structure body has intersection parts of the partition wall, including basic intersection parts and thick intersection parts having a thickness larger than that of the basic intersection parts, the thick intersection parts include at least one of: first thick intersection parts and second thick intersection parts, and in the circumferential cell structure, the intersection parts at least include the circumferential basic intersection parts.