Paper Capillary Lateral Flow Fluid Filter for Bacterial and Nanometer Sized Particle Contamination

    公开(公告)号:US20220118381A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-04-21

    申请号:US17502544

    申请日:2021-10-15

    IPC分类号: B01D25/19 B01D25/30 B01D39/18

    摘要: The present invention provides a system and methods for filtering fluid using filter papers, stationary paper, cloth sheets or any other porous material. In one embodiment, the present invention uses the lateral flow direction along the porous sheets, instead of conventional vertical flow direction, for the removal of bacteria and particle contamination in the range from nanometers to millimeters. The pore sizes in the filter media along the lateral direction are modulated by controlling the compression of the porous sheets, instead of conventionally designing filters with different pore sizes. The lateral flow fluid filter system is scalable simply by increasing the feed area, feed length, and the number of porous sheets. The invention presents a universal fluid filtration system for wide range of applications such as water purification, food processing, chemical industry, oil and gas industry, and biological applications.