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Original Articles

Clogging of Industrial High Efficiency Particulate Air (HEPA) Filters in Case of Fire: From Analytical to Large-Scale Experiments

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Pages 939-947 | Received 07 May 2014, Accepted 15 Jul 2014, Published online: 03 Sep 2014

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