随着公众对空气污染的潜在不良影响的认识不断提高，人们对开发用于家用空调系统的空气净化设备产生了越来越大的商业兴趣，这一问题现已扩展到包括人类的家庭环境。房主们现在比以往任何时候都更愿意花钱购买电视机或冰箱，以便能够在相对无尘的家庭环境中生活。 这一领域的几乎所有发展都指向强制空气供暖和通风系统，在这种系统中，所有的家庭空气迟早都必须通过中央空调系统，而中央空调系统可以方便地添加空气滤清器。通常，这可以采取简单的玻璃纤维过滤器的形式，或者（近年来）静电空气滤清器的形式。目前市面上销售的大多数静电空气净化器都采用简单的两级静电除尘器的形式，具有低压降和总体功率要求的理想特性，以及高收集效率和可靠性。 本文介绍了一些实验，旨在研究开发一种住宅网格型静电空气净化器的可能性，其中存在大量不同的实际问题。引文:ASHRAE交易，第80卷第2部分，加拿大蒙特利尔

The ever-growing commercial interest in the development of air cleaning apparatus for use in domestic air conditioning systems arises from the current increased awareness by the public of the potential undesirable effects of air pollution, a concern which has now spread to include man's domestic environment. Home-owners are now, more than ever before, prepared to spend sums of money comparable with that which they would spend in acquiring TV sets or refrigerators in order to be able to live in relatively dust-free domestic environments. Almost all developments in this area have been directed towards forced-air heating and ventilating systems in which all the domestic air must, sooner or later, pass through a central air conditioning system to which an air cleaner can be conveniently added. Typically this could take the form of a simple fibreglass filter, or (in more recent years) an electrostatic air cleaner. Most of the currently commercially available electrostatic air cleaners take the form of simple two-stage electrostatic precipitators which have the desirable features of low pressure drop and overall power requirements, coupled with high collection efficiency and reliability.This paper describes some experiments directed towards investigating the possibility of developing a residential grid-type electrostatic air cleaner where a different set of practical problems abounds.