Synthesis of Silk Fibroin Fiber for Indoor air Particulate Removal
The main objective of this research is to synthesize silk fibroin fiber for indoor air particulate removal. Silk cocoons were de-gummed using 0.5 wt % Na2CO3 alkaline solutions at 90 Ó╣ìC for 60 mins, washed with distilled water, and dried at 80 Ó╣ìC for 3 hrs in a vacuum oven. Two sets of experiment were conducted to investigate the impacts of initial particulate matter (PM) concentration and that of air flow rate on the removal efficiency. Rice bran collected from a local rice mill in Ubonratchathani province was used as indoor air contaminant in this work. The morphology and physical properties of silk fibroin (SF) fiber were measured. The SEM revealed the deposition of PM on the used fiber. The PM removal efficiencies of 72.29 ± 3.03 % and 39.33 ± 1.99 % were obtained of PM10 and PM2.5, respectively, when using the initial PM concentration at 0.040 mg/m3 and 0.020 mg/m3 of PM10 and PM2.5, respectively, with the air flow rate of 5 L/min.
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of Bombyx mori silkworm silk fiber filter tips against mainstream
smoke of cigarettes," J. Mater and Design, 2008, pp.1-6.
[1] A.P. Jones, "Indoor air quality and health," Atmospheric
Environment, vol. 33, 1999.pp. 4535 - 4564.
[2] J. Robinson, W.C. Nelson, "National Human Activity Pattern Survey
Data Base," UnitedStates Environmental Protection Agency,
Research Triangle Park, NC. ,1995.
[3] USEPA., "Characterizing air emissions from Indoor sources." EPA
Report EPA/600/F-95/005, United States Environmental Protection
Agency, Washingtion, DC.,1995.
[4] J.D. Spengler, J.M. Samet, "A perspective on indoor and outdoor air
pollution." In: Samet, J.M. and Spengler, J.D., Editors, (1991).
Indoor Air Pollution: A Health Perspective, Johns Hopkins
University Press, Baltimore, 1991. pp. 1-29.
[5] Committee of the Environmental and Occupational Health Assembly
of the American Thoracic Society, "Health effects of outdoor air
pollution." Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med., vol.153, 1996, pp. 3-50.
[6] C.A. Clayton, R.L. Perritt, E.D. Pellizzari, K.W. Thomas, R.W.
Withmore, "Particle total exposure assessment methodology
(PTEAM) study: distributions of aerosol and elemental
concentrations in personal, indoor, and outdoor air samples in a
southern California community," J. Expos. Analy. Environ. Epidem.
vol. 3, 1993, pp. 227-250.
[7] J.L. Devalia, C. Rusznak, J. Wang, O.A. Khair, M.M. Abdelaziz,
M.A. Calder├│n, R.J. Davies,"Air pollutants and respiratory
hypersensitivity," Toxicol. Lett., vol. 86, 1996, pp.169-176.
[8] I. T. T. Higgins, "Effects of sulfur oxides an particulates on Health,"
Arch. Environ. Health, vol 22, 1971, pp 584.
[9] S. Suwanno., "Health impact assessment from particulate matter and
noise on rice mill workers in Ubonratchatani," 2007.
[10] P. Zhao, J.A. Siegel, R.L. Corsi, "Ozone removal by HVAC filters,"
Atmospheric Environment, vol. 41, 2007, pp. 3151-3160.
[11] M. Hyttinen, P. Pasanen, P. Kalliokoski, "Reactions of ozone on
clean, dusty and sooty supply air filters," Atmos. Environ., vol.40,
2006, pp. 315-325.
[12] L. Zhou, X. Chen, Z. Z. Shao, P. Zhou, D.P. Knight, F. Vollrath,
"Cooper in the silk formation process of Bombyx mori silkworm,"
Fed Eur Biochem Soc Lett., vol. 554, 2003, pp. 337-34.
[13] R. Valluzzi, S. J. He, S. P. Gido, D. Kaplan, "Bombyx mori silk
fibroin liquid crystallinity and crystallization at aqueous fibroinorganic
solvent interfaces," Int J Biol Macromol , vol. 24, 1999, pp.
227- 236.
[14] C. Z. Zhou, F. Confalonieri, N. Medina, Y. Zivanovic, C. Esnault, T.
Yang, et al., "Fine organization of Bombyx mori fibroin heavy
gene," Nucleic Acids Res., vol. 28 (12), 2000, pp. 2413 - 2439.
[15] G. Y. Li, P. Zhou, Z. Z. Shao, X. Xie, X. Chen, H. H. Wang, et al.,
"The natural silk spinning process," Eur J Biochem., vol. 268,
2001, pp. 6600-6606.
[16] X. Wang., X. Zhang, J. Castellot, I. Ira Herman, M. Iafrati, D. L.
Kaplan, "Controlled release from multilayer silk biomaterial coatings
to modulate vascular cell responses. Biomaterials, vol.29, 2008, pp.
894 - 903.
[17] V. Karageorgiou, M. Tomkins, R. Fajardo, L. Meinel, B. Snyder, K.
Wade, et al., "Porous silk fibroin 3-D scaffolds for delivery of bone
morphogenic protein-2 in vitro and in - vivo," J Biomed Mater Res,
vol.78A, 2006, pp. 324- 334.
[18] Y.Z. Wang, D. J. Blasioli, H. J. Kim, H. S. Kim, D. L. Kaplan,
"Cartilage tissue engineering with silks caffolds and human articular
chondrocytes,"Biomaterials, vol.27, 2006, pp. 4434- 4442.
[19] G. H. Altman, F. Diaz, C. Jakuba, T. Calabro, R. L. Horan, J. Chen,
H. Lu, J. Richmond, D. L. Kaplan, "Silk-based Biomaterials,"
Biomaterials, vol.24, 2003, pp. 401-416.
[20] Z. Jingxin, Z. Yaopeng, S. Huili, H. Xuechao, "Electrospinning and
rheology of regenerated Bombyx mori silk fibroin aqueous
solutions:The effects of pH and concentration,"Polymer, vol.49,
2008, pp. 2880 - 2885.
[21] C. Chen, C. Cao, X. Ma, Y. Tang, H. Zhu,"Preparation of non-woven
mats from all-aqueous silk fibroin solution with electrospinning
method,"J. Polymer, vol.47, 2006, pp. 6322- 6327.
[22] T. BaoZhong, C. Ping, C. Jian, B. Lun, "Blocking and filtering effect
of Bombyx mori silkworm silk fiber filter tips against mainstream
smoke of cigarettes," J. Mater and Design, 2008, pp.1-6.
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