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J. Clarke[_4_]

In article ,
says...

On Wednesday, August 3, 2016 at 7:13:25 PM UTC-7, wrote:
On Tue, 2 Aug 2016 21:02:03 -0700 (PDT), whit3rd
wrote:

Back when taverns allowed smoking, there were boxes on the ceiling that
filtered the smoke out. Electrostatic air cleaners, they glommed dust and odors
with ion generators.

That might work well with pain overspray (though cleaning dried paint
off the filters may be a problem) but electrostatic filters aren't
going to do anything for VOCs.

No, I'm not talking about 'electrostatic air filters', I'm talking about the equivalent
of smokestack scrubbers. Similar names, different stuff. Electrostatic air cleaners ionize
and collect organic molecules... and it takes an ion generator to do that (corona
on thin wires).

Source? (For the "collect organic molecules" part, not for the "corona
on thin wires" part. )

So-called 'electrostatic air filters' use an electret (kinda like a
permanent
magnet) to collect dust.