Patent ID: 8057563
Filing Date: 2011-11-15
Classification: B01D

Abstract:
1. An air cleaner comprising: (a) a housing including a dirty air inlet, a clean air outlet, and an interior; (b) a planer tubesheet in the housing interior having a plurality of openings in the same plane as the tubesheet; (c) a filter arrangement comprising a plurality of individual z-media panel-style filters, each filter having a flow face and being oriented to cover one of the openings in the tubesheet such that the filter flow face is generally parallel to the plane of the tubesheet; each of the filters being mounted in the respective one of the openings to permit air to flow through the filter faces in a straight flow through direction; (d) a plurality of blowpipes; each blowpipe being oriented to direct a fluid pulse at a respective one of the openings in the tubesheet covered by the panel-style filter arrangement; (e) an accumulator arrangement oriented adjacent to the openings in the tubesheet on a downstream side of the tubesheet; the accumulator arrangement including: