Particle Contamination Control Lab.

Particle Contamination Control Laboratory (PCCL) at the department of Environmental Engineering at Inha University deals with micro and nanometer scale particle behavior and control. The research fields in PCCL include particle generation, sampling, charging, characterization, and instrumentation.  The research program in PCCL are broadly divided into the following 5 major areas:

• Atmospheric Particle Analysis : The research focuses on the physicochemical characteristic analysis of atmospheric particles using various methods including mobile lab and unmanned aerial vehicle.

• Filtration : The research is supported by and collaborated with an industrial consortium, Center for Filtration Research (CFR) consisting of international companies. The consortium is held by Particle Technology Laboratory in University of Minnesota.

• Indoor Air Quality : The research is related to the development of air cleaning systems including corona discharging and electrospun nanofiber.

• Air Pollution : The research focuses on the effects of airborne atmospheric particles on the air pollution and climate change. Field measurements are carried out, using self-developed aerosol instruments.

• Aerosol Instrumentation : The research focuses on the development of aerosol instruments for atmospheric particle measurements, especially number concentration and size distribution of airborne particles ranging from 5 nm to 10 μm. The developed aerosol instruments have been actively employed to outdoor filed measurements. 

• Particle Transport : The research covers particle behavior analysis using the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) numerical simulations. The numerical simulation is highly involved in most of the research fields in PCCL.