Embodiments of the invention include a filtration element. In an embodiment, the invention includes a filtration element for an airplane cabin that includes a first media portion upstream from a second media portion. The first media portion can include activated carbon. The second media portion can include a catalyst material. Other embodiments are also included herein.

An electrostatic precipitating apparatus for an air conditioning system is disclosed. The precipitating apparatus includes an electrostatic precipitator including a plurality of discharge electrodes to which a voltage is applied and a plurality of electrostatic precipitating electrodes each disposed between the discharge electrodes and grounded, a washing water supply spraying the washing water to the electrostatic precipitator, and a frame assembly fixed to the duct to support the electrostatic precipitator. The frame assembly is fixed to the duct to support the electrostatic precipitator, and includes a prestressing locking member fixed to inside of the duct in a state in which a pressing force is applied to the electrostatic precipitator.

The invention discloses a catalyst for removing volatile organic compounds and a preparation method therefor. In the catalyst, aluminum oxide modified by iron, cobalt and nickel is used as a carrier, cordierite honeycomb ceramic is used as a matrix, and an extremely low content of a mixture of platinum and palladium is used as an active component; a molar ratio of platinum to palladium is 0-1:0-9, and an amount of the mixture of platinum and palladium accounts for 0.01% to 0.05% of a mass of the matrix; and an amount of the carrier accounts for 3% to 5% of the mass of the matrix.

A high-adsorption-performance nanofiber filter medium includes a support material and a composite nanofiber filtration layer that includes multiple nanometer composite nanofiber layers deposited and stacked on the support material. The nanometer composite nanofiber layer includes first, second, and third nano-powder composite nanofibers, which are uniformly mixed by means of an airflow or are sequentially laminated to form the nanometer composite nanofiber layer. The nanometer composite nanofiber layer formed through sequential lamination includes first, second, and third nanofiber layers. The first nanofiber layer includes multiple first nano-powder composite nanofibers. The second nanofiber layer is stacked on the first nanofiber layer and includes multiple second nano-powder composite nanofibers. The third nanofiber layer is stacked on the second nanofiber layer and includes multiple third nano-powder composite nanofibers. The composite nanofiber filtration layer is formed of multiple nanometer composite nanofiber layers, so that the high-adsorption-performance nanofiber air filter medium shows improved performance.

A supported catalyst for decomposing an organic substance that includes a support and a catalyst particle supported on the support. The catalyst particle contains a perovskite-type composite oxide represented by A.sub.xB.sub.yM.sub.zO.sub.w, where the A contains at least one selected from Ba and Sr, the B contains Zr, the M is at least one selected from Mn, Co, Ni and Fe, y+z=1, x≥0.995, z≤0.4, and w is a positive value satisfying electrical neutrality. A film thickness of a catalyst-supporting film supported on the support and containing the catalyst particle is 5 μm or more, or a supported amount as determined by normalizing a mass of the catalyst particle supported on the support by a volume of the support is 45 g/L or more.

One disclosed system includes: (a) a fan directing an initial air stream to a heater with sufficient heating capacity to heat said initial airstream to a temperature of 200° C. to 350° C. and output a heated air stream; and (b) an air to air heat exchanger positioned and configured to use said heated air stream to preheat said initial airstream prior to its arrival at said heater. Additional systems and corresponding methods are disclosed.

A method is disclosed in which a gas of hydrogen and nitrogen, or hydrogen and ammonia, or hydrogen, nitrogen, and ammonia, is introduced to a fluidized bed. The gas flows through the fluidized bed, and titanium dioxide particles are introduced to the fluidized bed to form a fluid mixture of the particles and gas in the fluidized bed. The particles are reacted with the gas in the fluid mixture to form particles including titanium dioxide and nitrogen. The particles can be disposed along an air flow path in operative communication with a light source for air treatment.

The mixing nozzle has a throat section, a diffuser section, a gas nozzle section, a first liquid suction port, a liquid nozzle section, a second liquid suction port, a baffle plate, and a jetting port. The first liquid suction port liquidly absorbs the solution in the water storage pool from a side of the gas nozzle section toward the gas nozzle tip. The liquid nozzle section extends to the downstream side of the gas nozzle section with intervening the first liquid suction port. The second liquid suction port liquidly absorbs the solution in the water storage pool from a side of the liquid nozzle section toward the liquid nozzle tip. The baffle plate is provided such that the mixed flow mixed in the diffuser section collides in front of a downstream end of the diffuser section, and divides and reverses the mixed flow.

Disclosed herein are base metal catalyst devices for removing ozone, volatile organic compounds, and other pollutants from an air flow stream. A catalyst device includes a housing, a solid substrate disposed within the housing, and a catalyst layer disposed on the substrate. The catalyst layer includes a first base metal catalyst at a first mass percent, a second base metal catalyst at a second mass percent, and a support material impregnated with at least one of the first base metal catalyst or the second base metal catalyst. The preferred catalyst composition is a combination of manganese oxide and copper oxide.

The present invention relates to a photocatalytic module for an automobile air conditioner and an automobile air conditioner having the same and, more particularly, to a photocatalytic module capable of eliminating various germs resulting from dew formed on an evaporator installed in an automobile air conditioner and corresponding bad smell, and an air conditioner having the same.

The photocatalytic module includes a duct fixation frame 54 adjacent to an inner wall of the duct 10; a filter fixation frame 55 having one end connected to the duct fixation frame, the filter fixation frame 55 fixing the photocatalytic filter 52; a photocatalytic filter 52 fixed by the fixation frame 55, being formed by applying a photocatalytic material onto a supporter having a shape of a plurality of cells neighboring each other and provided with a plurality of airflow paths; and a substrate 58 fixed to the duct fixation frame 54 and equipped with an ultraviolet (UV) light emitting diode (LED) 59 for radiating ultraviolet light toward the photocatalytic filter 52.

The present provides an air conditioner having the photocatalytic module installed therein and an LED disposed upstream of the photocatalytic filter on the flow path of the duct.