Description:
A Novel Reduced Maintenance Air Filtration System
NJIT Case # 16-031 & 16-032
Inventors: Eon Soo Lee, Bharath Babu Nunna
Intellectual Property & Development status: Patent protection is pending.
NJIT is currently seeking commercial partners for the further development and commercialization of this opportunity.
Researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering have invented a novel, cheap and simple air filtration system, which filters the particle at micron level at continuum without any need of frequent maintenance.
The invention is a modular filtration system that uniquely offers reduced maintenance by preventing the accumulation of particles from blocking air ducts and easy replacement of the air filtration components if needed. Air filtration is performed with multiple modules with a flexibility to attach and detach these modules upon requirement however, each module of the filtration system function independently. This flexibility allows the filtration system for continuous usage. Additionally, the module system is easily customizable and able to adapt to the specific requirements of systems for various uses, weather conditions, and geographic locations. The invention has direct application in the multiple fields ranging from the simple domestic appliances like air-conditioning to complex industrial air filtration processes.
Applications
• Air Filtration
Agriculture field
Mining field
Demolition and Construction sites
Domestic Appliances (air-conditioning)
Advantages
• Reduced maintenance
• Flexible and customizable
• Long lifetime
• Low cost
• Continuous Operation
Inventors Bio:
Dr. Eon Soo Lee, Assistant Professor at NJIT, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department: Dr. Lee has received his PHD (2007) and MS (2004) at Stanford University, and his BS (1999) at Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, all in Mechanical Engineering. He is also serving as Director of Advanced Energy Systems and Microdevices Laboratory- an academic research laboratory dedicated to the energy researches and microdevices technologies including biomedical device researches. He has extensive research experiences on particle transportation in flow dynamics in both academia and industries including Stanford University and NJIT, and Samsung R&D Center as a Principal Research Engineer and Group Leader. Most recently, as a Principal Investigator (PI) and Group Leader in R&D Center at Samsung Electro-Mechanics, Dr. Lee achieved the impressive technology development and was awarded with prestigious Samsung Technology Award in 2011, International TechConnect Innovation Award in 2017, and Defense Innovation Award in 2017.
Dr. lee has 38 patent disclosures submitted (29 patents granted & 13 patents in process) on energy systems and Microdevices applications. He has also served as an organizer for many international conferences. He served as President of NY Metro Chapter of Korean American Scientist Engineers Association in 2016-2017 and chaired Northeast Region Conference in 2017.
Bharath Babu Nunna, PhD Candidate at NJIT, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department: Mr. Bharath Babu Nunna a PHD candidate of Dr. Lee research group and has an extensive background in air filtration devices with chemical bio-agent reaction and sensing technologies. Prior to joining this research team, he worked in Caterpillar Inc. for more than 6 years as a Design Engineer. He has been working with Dr. Lee on various projects over 4years.