Air filtering process and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system

Abstract

A heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system (HVAC system) for a motor vehicle is provided, which has an ionizer for generating a corona discharge field, which contains at least one polarized discharge electrode and at least one counter electrode with the opposite polarity of the discharge electrode, a particle filter for removing particles from an air flow, and a flow path that defines a flow direction for air leading to a vehicle interior and conducts the air through the ionizer and the particle filter, wherein the ionizer is upstream of the particle filter in the flow path. The ionization effect can be improved when the discharge electrodes have numerous needles that point in the flow direction for the air, or counter to the flow direction for the air, and when the discharge electrodes and dedicated counter electrodes are spaced apart in a direction transverse to the flow direction for the air.

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