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Environmental Technology Verification Report and Statement for Baghouse Filtration Products, W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. 5117 High Durability PPS Laminate Filtration Media (Tested March-April 2012)
Citation:
RTI International, AND ETS Incorporated. Environmental Technology Verification Report and Statement for Baghouse Filtration Products, W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. 5117 High Durability PPS Laminate Filtration Media (Tested March-April 2012). U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA/600/R/12/544, 2012.
Impact/Purpose:
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) created the Environmental Technology Verification (ETV) Program to facilitate the deployment of innovative or improved environmental technologies through performance verification and dissemination of information. The goal of the ETV Program is to further environmental protection by accelerating the acceptance and use of improved and cost-effective technologies. The ETV Program seeks to achieve this goal by providing high-quality, peer-reviewed data on technology performance to those involved in the design, distribution, financing, permitting, purchase, and use of environmental technologies.
Description:
Baghouses are air pollution control devices used to control particulate emissions from stationary sources and are among the technologies evaluated by the APCT Center. Baghouses and their accompanying filter media have long been one of the leading particulate control techniques for industrial sources. Increasing emphasis on higher removal efficiencies has helped the baghouse to be continually more competitive when compared to the other generic PM control devices to the point where the baghouse is now the control option of choice for most industrial applications. The development of new and improved filter media has further enhanced baghouse capability to control fine PM over an expanded range of industrial applications. The APCT Center developed (and EPA approved) the Generic Verification Protocol for Baghouse Filtration Products to provide guidance on these verification tests. The following report reviews the performance of W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.’s 5117 High Durability PPS Laminate filtration media. ETV testing of this technology was conducted during March - April 2012 at ETS. All testing was performed in accordance with an approved test/quality assurance (QA) plan that implements the requirements of the generic verification protocol at the test laboratory.