Basic Examination of Small Micro-Plastics Collection using Cyclone Dust Collector

Abstract

Micro plastics are one of the recent important subjects of ocean environment, so that several studies are conducted at worldwide. In order to investigate micro plastics pollution near the bottom of the ocean and water column, the mechanism which is able to collect micro plastics without filter is proposed. The mechanism utilize swirling flow to separate plastics instead of filter. Micro plastics is collected by pressure difference of inside and outside of the swirling flow. The experiments of swirling flow occurrence and micro plastics behavior observation are conducted, and it is confirmed that the mechanism have possibility to collect micro plastics.