气相空气过滤设备（GPAFE）越来越多地被提出并用于改善室内空气质量。室内空气应用不同于该技术的常见工业用途，因为浓度较低，污染物的特性通常不清楚。由于缺乏一种标准试验方法，该方法无法提供工程设计信息，例如室内遇到的低浓度成分的合理混合物的容量和突破时间，因此该技术的应用受到了阻碍。这项研究项目的总体目标是开发和评估全寿命试验方法- 用于非工业建筑应用的小型气相空气过滤设备（GPAFE）。测试方法旨在为设计师和操作员提供进行合理空气滤清器设计所需的技术数据和信息。这些结果旨在支持ASHRAE未来建立GPAFE标准测试方法的努力，例如ASHRAE SPC-145P标准委员会的标准测试方法。

Gas-phase air filtration equipment (GPAFE) has been increasingly proposed and used to improve indoor air quality. Indoor air applications differ from the common industrial uses of the technology in that concentrations are lower and the identity of the contaminants is generally not known. Application of the technology has been hampered by lack of a standard test method that provides engineering design information such as capacity and breakthrough time for a reasonable mixture of components at the low concentrations encountered indoors.The overall objective of this research project was the development and evaluation of test methods for full-scale gas-phase air filtration equipment (GPAFE) to be used in non-industrial building applications. The test methods were to provide designers and operators the technical data and information needed to undertake rational air cleaner design. The results were intended to support ASHRAE's future efforts to establish standard test methods for GPAFE, such as those of the SPC- 145P Standard Committee of ASHRAE.