PERL is located in Wailuku, Maui, Hawaii, where it was established in 2002 for the development of proprietary air filtration
technology.
PERL is where Peletex carries out R&D, improves design,
and works to commercialize environmental innovations. Scientific equipment
includes software for solid modeling and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
simulations. We house a fabrication shop for prototype construction and an
aerosol-removal stand with test facility that can be operated as a ”Class 100”
clean-room.
Our aerosol-removal testing facility is equipped with Ultra
Low Penetration Air (ULPA) Filtered-Fan-Units. Positive pressure is maintained
in the laboratory by drawing make-up air in from the outside. Particles in the
make-up air are filtered by an Airguard KA-466 and an ULPA Filtered Fan Unit (FFU), in line with a
120 cfm blower mounted to a 4’ by 2’ ULPA. Room air is routed back to a through
the ULPA FFU by a return-air register mounted in the ceiling. A second Airguard
KA-466, ULPA FFU draws the previously filtered air in from the room through a
second return-air register mounted in the ceiling. The second ULPA FFU supplies
double-filtered “first air” (initial use of filtered air) to the test stand and
returns a portion of the re-filtered air to the room.