Filter Element Dehumidification Spacing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing filter elements for gas filtration and dehumidification are not efficiently space-saving and require complex constructions, limiting their effectiveness and ease of maintenance.
Innovation Solution
A filter element design where the dehumidification unit is positioned in a clean-side flow chamber downstream of the filter medium body, allowing for a spaced arrangement that enhances filtration efficiency and dehumidification through a calming effect, with the dehumidification unit being flow-tightly connected to the outflow opening to ensure gas flow through it before exit, and featuring a carrier body that can accommodate both units independently.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Volume of moving object
If the dehumidification unit is arranged immediately adjacent to the filter medium body, then the device occupies less space, but the gas flow remains turbulent reducing filtration and adsorption efficiency
Solution Approach 1:
A flow chamber is introduced as an intermediary space between the filter medium body and the dehumidification unit. This flow chamber receives filtered gas from the filter medium body and distributes it to the dehumidification unit, creating a calming effect that reduces turbulence and allows the gas to spread evenly before entering the dehumidification unit, thereby maintaining high filtration and adsorption efficiency while keeping the device compact
2Productivity
If the dehumidification unit is placed downstream of the filter medium body with spacing, then the gas flow calms and contact time increases improving efficiency, but the device occupies more space
Solution Approach 1:
The flow chamber is nested within the carrier body, and the dehumidification unit is arranged within the flow chamber space. This nested arrangement allows the gas to travel through the filter medium body, then through the flow chamber where it calms and spreads, and finally through the dehumidification unit, all within a compact configuration that maximizes contact time without significantly increasing the overall device volume
3Ease of manufacture
If the filter medium body and dehumidification unit are integrated in a single component, then the device is simpler to manufacture, but the components cannot be independently exchanged for maintenance
Solution Approach 1:
The filter element is segmented into distinct components: a filter medium body and a dehumidification unit, both accommodated within a separate carrier body. This segmentation allows each component to be manufactured independently and enables selective replacement of either the filter medium body or the dehumidification unit for maintenance purposes, while still forming an integrated functional unit when assembled together
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
This design achieves efficient filtration and dehumidification while allowing for independent exchange of components, ensuring optimal contact time and reduced flow rate, thus improving filtration and adsorption efficiency and maintaining desired humidity levels.
Implementation Method 1
at least one filter medium body at which the filtration of the gas takes place
Implementation Method 2
a dehumidification unit for dehumidifying the gas... comprising a drying agent
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AI summary
A filter element for filtration and dehumidification of a gas has at least one filter medium body with an outflow side delimiting a clean-side flow chamber. A dehumidification unit is arranged downstream of the at least one filter medium body in a flow direction of the gas in the clean-side flow chamber. A carrier body accommodates the at least one filter medium body and the dehumidification unit. The dehumidification unit is connected flow-tightly to an outflow opening of the clean-side flow chamber. The dehumidification unit is arranged in the clean-side flow chamber at a spacing relative to the at least one filter medium body.