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What is a Fan filter unit(FFU) in cleanroom?

What is a Fan filter unit(FFU) in cleanroom?

FFU is an abbreviation for FAN FILTER UNIT
FFU can be used modularly (or individually of course.) FFU are widely used in clean rooms, clean benches, clean production lines, assembled clean rooms, and partial class 100 clean rooms.

The FFU is equipped with two levels of primary and high-efficiency filters.
The air is drawn in from the top of the FFU and filtered through the primary and high-efficiency filters.
The filtered clean air is sent out at a uniform speed of 0.45M/S±20% over the entire outlet surface.
It is suitable for obtaining a high level of cleanliness in various environments.
It provides high-quality clean air for clean rooms and micro-environments of different sizes and cleanliness levels.
In new clean rooms and clean plant renovation, it can improve the cleanliness level, reduce noise and vibration, also greatly reduce the cost, easy to install and maintain, is the ideal part of a clean environment.

The FFU consists of four main parts.
Boxes
Its material is commonly used galvanized aluminum alloy coated steel, aluminum alloy, and stainless steel three. The function is to support the fan and the air guide ring, and the second is to support the flow guide plate.
Deflector plate
A balancing device for airflow, is built into the interior of the box, around the bottom of the fan.
Fans
Available in single AC (AC/1Phase), DC (EC/1Phase), and triple AC (AC/3Phase).
Control components
For AC FFU, its commonly used five-speed governor or infinitely variable governor; the control chip of the DC system is embedded inside the motor, with the help of special control software, computer, control gateway, and network line to achieve remote control.

 
There are two common cleanroom air treatment methods, MAU + AHU + HEPA (hereinafter referred to as AHU system) and MAU + FFU + DC dry coil (hereinafter referred to as FFU system).
By comparing the two methods it is concluded that the FFU acts as a purification circulation unit in the purified air conditioning system and the circulating air volume in the clean room is equal to the total air volume of the FFU in the clean room.
The air in the clean room is sent into the clean room from the clean ceiling mezzanine by the FFU, and the circulating air is sent back to the ceiling mezzanine through the return air mezzanine; the circulating air exchanges heat with the DC dry coils installed in the mezzanine as it passes through the return air mezzanine.
 

FFU features and applications

Features of FFU: low energy consumption, low noise, convenience and flexibility, space-saving, and easy installation.

Low energy consumption: from the perspective of the components of FFU, only the micro fan needs to consume energy, and the power of the micro fan is generally between 110w and 190w.
Although the initial investment is higher than using duct ventilation when choosing FFU, it stands out in the later operation as energy-saving and maintenance-free.

Usually, clean room circulation air volume is very large, to the area of 100m2, clean room height for 3m, air cleanliness level requirements for ISO6 (i.e. 1000 level) clean room as an example: "clean plant design specifications (GB500073-2001)" for ISO6 clean room air cleanliness level for the number of air changes for 50 times / 60 times / h.
We take the air change here. Here we take the number of air changes as 55 times/h, the total circulating air volume of FFU is 16,500 CMH, and we take the fresh air volume as 3,000 CMH.

Scheme 1, AHU system: the total pressure loss of MAU is 700Pa and the power is 2.2kw; the total pressure loss of AHU is 1300Pa and the power is 15kw; the total power of the whole system is 17.2kw.
Scheme 2, FFU system: the total pressure loss of MAU is 800Pa and the power is 2.2kw; the specification of FFU is 1200×600 and the air volume is 1200CMH) there are 14 FFUs, the power of a single FFU is 190W, the total power of FFU is 2.66kw; the total power of the whole system is 4.86kw.

By comparing the power of schemes 1 and 2, we conclude that the FFU acts as a collection of circulating air cabinets and high-efficiency filters in the system, and the power consumed is much smaller than that of the circulating air cabinets AHU, which is in line with the current theme of vigorously promoting an economical society and giving the factory a new direction in saving production costs.