Who uses V-Bank filters?
A V-Bank filter is what we call a mini-pleated filter; it’s a high-efficiency filter with a higher media area than a standard box filter. The standard size is still 24 x 24 x 12, like the box filter, but there’s a big difference between the mini-pleated V-Bank filter and a box filter: most box filters have a metal frame and don’t have a large amount of filtration media. The actual pleat packs, which is what the media is manufactured into, are installed into the V-Bank filter in a ‘V’ shape – hence the term V-Bank. The majority of ours are 4 V’s.
The frames of those V-Banks are plastic, and though the majority of EFS V-Bank filters have both synthetic and a glass-laid media available, we see much more use for the synthetic media as it does not respond to moisture, which is important due to our work in high-humidity areas. Hospitals, gas turbine power plants, clean rooms, universities, data centers, airports, hotels, micro-electronics or pharmaceutical manufacturers, and pretty much any application that has a true air handler could use a V-Bank filter as their final filter. “We see in many instances where the V-Bank filter is the final filter and a standard pleat is a pre-filter”.
It is especially crucial in hospitals and cleanrooms to maintain a sterile environment and remain confident that airborne diseases or toxins are being filtered correctly and efficiently. Making the V- Bank filter the perfect fit using its high efficiency, low-pressure drop, long filter life and synthetic filter media that resists moisture. They are also designed to withstand high velocities and turbulence making them durable in most air handling systems. In any case, the V-Bank filter possesses very few cons in its application for air handing units.