Structure and filtration properties of melt blown polypropylene webs

✍ Scribed by Youngchul Lee; Larry C. Wadsworth

• Book ID: 104522805
• Publisher: Society for Plastic Engineers
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 598 KB
• Volume: 30
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0032-3888
• DOI: 10.1002/pen.760302202

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Polypropylene melt blown webs have been studied in terms of the relationships among the processing conditions, structure, and filtration efficiency. The effects of the processing conditions on filtration efficiency to aerosolized latex particles, pore size, fiber diameter, and air permeability have been investigated. The melt blowing process conditions investigated in this study were die and air temperatures, die‐to‐collector distance, and attenuation air flow rate at the die. The filtration efficiency has been found to increase linearly as mean pore size decreased. The degree of fiber‐entanglement increased, therefore, the pore size and air permeability decreased with increasing processing temperature, increasing air flow rate at the die, or decreasing die‐to‐collector distance. Average fiber diameter appeared to change little with die‐to‐collector distance, but decreased with increasing die temperature or with increasing air flow rate.