Issue No.

:- TA_77040215
TECHNICAL BULLETIN Dated :- 25th Feb, 2004

Title : Air Filters for Air Conditioners Product: All models

Frequency: 50/60 Hz
Details Category: Information

Purpose : Millions of people suffer from some types of allergies or syndromes due to the
presence of pollen, dust, soot, bacteria, another particle and harmful gas in air.
Benefit : To ensure safe and healthy living condition, these particles should be filtered.
Air filter is the solution to these problems.
Application: Air Conditioner, Air Cleaner, Ventilation system, Dehumidifier and etc.
Type :
These filters are mainly applied to LG Air Conditioners. ▶ Plasma filter
▶ Nano Plasma filter
Comparison of Filters Conventional Filters Plasma Filter Nano Plasma Filter
Principle Plasma Plasma & Nano Tech.
Dust reduction △ ☆ ☆
Deodorization △ ○ ☆
Regular NCB fiter regular replacement
Life Semi-permanent
replacement other semi-permernet
☆:High Cost low high medium
Wall mounted split
○:Medium Wall mounted split
Model Applicable Window type Floor standing
△:Low Art Cool
Art Cool, Cassete

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Plasma filter : Plasma filter is the most used air filter in LG Air Conditioner. Plasma filter works
on the principle of plasma generation.
Capability : It can clean the particles up to 0.1micron size such as mold, virus, bacteria and etc.
Principle :
Al. coated Plasma
Ground electrode(-) electrode (+)
Dust (3.5kV)
Light energy
① ② Dust charging ③ ④
+ +
(+4.5~5.2kV)
Polluted + +
Clean Air
Air + +
+

Odor molecule dust(+)

Discharge electrode(+) Collection electrode(-) Photo-catalyst coated mesh

[Figure1]
1) Pre-filter • It filters big size dust, hair and fur.
2) Plasma Ionizer • It consists of discharge electrode and ground electrode.
• When 4.5k~5.2kV is applied between discharge electrode and plate electrode, (+)ion and electron
is generated. This state is called plasma.
• Electron collides with gas molecules and decomposes them
• (+)ion collides with dust particles and charges them to positive.
3) Dust Collector • The charged dust is collected to the metal electrode(-) by force of attraction.

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4) Deodorization •It is a mesh coated with photo-catalyst.
•Photo-catalyst has property to get excited and decomposes organic matter adhered on the surface
when it gets light energy.
•So odor molecule which couldn’t be removed at plasma ionizer part can be decomposed and
removed by the photo energy generated from plasma.
☞ This is the general working plasma filter, but the assembly may be different for different models.
Especially Dust collector is applied to only floor standing and air cleaner.
Energy
Advantages : Plasma filter is semi-permanent. Just wash, emission
(ΔE=E2 -E1 )
dry and reuse it. E2
application
(%)
<Deodorization> (%)
<Dust Reduction>
100 100 •Kinetic energy • Plasma H/ E
80 80 Generating • Plasma Air Filter
•Chemical energy
60 60 plasma • PDP
40 40
•Light energy • Medical purposes
20 20
Natural • Lighting
•Heat energy
Plasma • Welding
0 15 30 45 60(Min) 0 10 20 30(Min)

[Figure 2] <Effect of LG Plasma Air Purifying System> E1

[Figure 3]
4th
What is Plasma? : Plasma is the state of matter. In this state there are high energy ions and electrons.
When these ions and electron emit energy, it comes out in different forms. Plasma application
technology can be applied for different purposes.(fig. 3)
☞ All material at high energy state have the property to return to the low energy state as high energy state is unstable

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Nano Plasma filter :

LG developed Nano Plasma filter for air conditioners. This filter uses nano carbon technology to plasma filter for better
efficiency to deodorization than conventional filters, which use common activated carbon filter to deodorizer.

Principle :
Clean air Nano Plasma filter has same process with plasma filter except
[Figure 4] changing photo catalyst part to NCB(Nano Carbon Ball) filter
which has better capability for deodorization.
Cover
NCB filter ☞ But NCB filter cannot be washable so that it should be changed.
Polluted air Plasma Ionizer
Bad odor
Pre-filter
2 nm mesopore
NCB fiter : Active Carbon filter will be replaced by Nano Carbon Ball filter.
This product was developed by LG Household & Health Care and it Catalyst for
decomposition
is the first product as using nano technology in the world.(fig. 5) of malodor
State of the art nano technology has controlled pores size, shape, and [Figure 6]
200 – 500 nm
their distribution for best deodorizing effect. : NCB

Mesopore area of LG Nano Carbon Ball is several times larger than that of general activated carbon.
Also, the catalyst in each pore can make it possible that the performance of nano carbon ball shows at least
ten times better than that of general activated carbon..(fig. 6)
[Figure 5] NCB filter

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[Figure 7] <Process for Nano Carbon Ball>
NCB (Nano Carbon Ball) :
Silica Core Mesoporous Shell Monomer Insertion Polymerization
NCB is a replica of the nano structured silca made
in the process as shown in fig.7.
When silica and polymer are heated, silica goes out Carbonization Etching Metal impregnation

of the ball and makes lots of pores on the surface of

polymer. This is NCB.

Advantage : Compared to activated carbon, it is absolutely efficient for deodorization

as NCB has lots of nano size pores on its surface and can hold small size odor.
•10 times efficient in case of Ammonia (fig. 8 )
•10 times efficient in case of Methyl mercaptan (fig. 9 )
(ppm) (ppm)

: Comparison of deodorization capability

Activated Carbon
between NCB and Activated Carbon
Activated Carbon
with investigating the remaining amount
NCB
NCB of Ammonia and Methyl mercaptan .

(min) (min) ☞ Ammonia is basic gas and Methyl is acid gas.

So these result shows very well that NCB
[Figure 8] Ammonia [Figure 9] Methyl mercaptan Filter can decompose any kind of gas.

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