Textile media woven fabrics

Filter medium material for the removal of viable organisms from compressed air tends to be either of borosilicate glass microfibres or meltspun fleece or PTFE membranes, supported on 100% glass fibre woven fabric or polysulphone or polypropylene spunbonded textiles. 

Fabric filters include all types of bag filters in which the filter medium is in the form of a woven or felted textile fabric which may be arranged as a tube or supported on a suitable... 

Textiles, as a woven cloth or a nonwoven fabric, are probably the most common industrial filter medium, and are made from natural (cotton, silk, wool) and synthetic fibres. Wire cloths and meshes are also widely used in industrial filtrafions, produced by weaving monofilaments of ferrous or non-ferrous metals the simpler plain weave is used for sieving and sizing operations, and the more complex weaves such as Dutch twills are used on pressure and vacuum filters. At the small scale, particularly for laboratory use, filter papers are common, made from fibrous cellulosic materials, glass fibre or synthetic polymers these papers are made using developments from conventional paper manufacturing processes. 

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