Mullite fiber porous ceramic with high quality factor for high-temperature PM filtration.

Porous ceramic filters with high porosity and high filtration are in urgent need of high-temperature gas filtration. Here a lightweight and low thermal conductivity mullite fiber porous ceramic filter was prepared through vacuum filtration method using solution blow spun mullite fiber as the matrix material and silica sol as the high-temperature binder. Mullite fiber porous ceramic with a mass ratio of 10:1 has uniform pore structure, low density (0.58 g cm−3), high porosity (78.11%), high compressive strength (1.79 MPa), as well as low thermal conductivity (0.095 W m−1 K−1) at a sintering temperature of 1300 ℃. When the air flow is 6 L min−1, the pressure drop is 180 Pa, the filtration efficiency of PM 2.5 and PM 10–2.5 is 98.85% and 99.61%, respectively, and the filtration quality factor is 0.025 Pa−1. The mullite fiber porous ceramic filter have outstanding quality factor, which has broad application prospects in high-temperature gas filtration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]