Efb, Inc.

Peter B Zieve

Karim Zahedi

Jeffrey C Alexander

Jeffery C Alexander

Electrified filter bed apparatus includes inner and outer cylindrical bed-retaining structures for confining a granular bed therebetween. The inner cylindrical structure may comprise a cage of superposed frusto-conical louvers and the outer structure may comprise a similar cage or a perforated cylindrical, liquid-drainage sheet. A cylindrical bed electrode for electrically charging the bed granules is suspended between the retaining structures. The tubular bed surrounds an internal gas passage from which polluted gas flows through the bed from the inside out. Gas enters the internal passage from above through an ionizer section of the apparatus. The ionizer section may include a disc-type ionizer assembly in an ionizer tube. The tube may form an extension of the inner louver cage. A corona discharge may be formed between the disc and the ionizer tube by providing electric current to the discs, whereby the corona discharge electrically charges particulate material within the gas stream. The discs may carry radially protruding needles defining circumferential corona discharge points. A blowdown system may be provided for cleaning the ionizer discs and the tube wall in the region of the discs. The apparatus may include means for avoiding blowout of bed granules from between the outer louvers, and a system for washing pollutant-coated bed granules.

Filter apparatus

Pollutant emissions produced in the manufacture of asphaltic roofing are controlled by the use of electrified bed filters. Filter bed granules coated with pollutants are removed from the beds periodically and are used in the manufacture of the roofing. A prefilter is employed to remove varnishing pollutant components in the supermicron size range to prevent fouling of an electrical charger.

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Arlington, MA, United States of America

Peter B Zieve