Fundamental experiments have been conducted to clarify the effects of air humidity on the performance of a fabric filter. Three kinds of test dusts (calcium carbonate, Kanto-loam JIS No. 8, and fly ash JIS No. 5) are used.
Particle size suspended in air by a mixer type disperser becomes coarser, as the relative humidity increasses, because of particle agglomeration. However, the humidity of air does not have much effect on the pressure loss and particle penetration. This is true especially when the agglomerated particle size distributions of the airborne dusts are controlled so as to be almost constant in spite of the humidity of air.