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Re:Experiments on a $50 DIY air purifier (2020) by aronpye on Thursday September 02, 2021 @09:22PM (#28399452)
That doesn’t make sense, the higher the flow rate the higher the energy each particle has so more chance of it making it through the filter.
Re:Experiments on a $50 DIY air purifier (2020) by ncmncm on Thursday September 02, 2021 @11:21PM (#28400053)
You might imagine so, but that turns out not to be how it works. Each time through there is a chance the particle will be blocked. It doesn't matter how fast in went in, because the mv^2 of a dust mote is tiny at any plausible speed. What matters is that N trips through gives you (1-p)^N probability of not getting caught, which falls off very fast... in fact, exponentially.

A deeper-pleated filter is the way to reduce velocity in traversal.