"filter element" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe a specific component that may be included in a filter designed to allow some items to pass while blocking others. For example, "The water filter contained a charcoal filter element to remove unpleasant odors."
That needs power, as well as frequent changes of the filter element as the pores fill up with bugs.
It looks more like a window screen than a furnace filter because it doesn't have either a cloth or fiberglass filter element.
The filter element is pleated to expand the total surface area so it can trap a higher percentage of particles, including dust, pollen, mold, animal dander and some bacteria.
It kills them.The filter element he and his team have designed is a mesh of tiny carbon cylinders, known as nanotubes, and silver wires laid on top of a thin strip of cotton cloth.
Pesticide filters for use in agricultural vehicle cabs contain a vapour filter element, sometimes with a particulate filter element upstream.
For this application a sealing impeller is required to prevent uncleaned gas flowing alongside the filter element to the outflow.
Other colours form corresponding additive effects, including white, where all three filter elements are transparent.
In such areas the eye cannot resolve the separate filter elements but gets an additive impression of yellow.
Red subject portions cause silver to be deposited behind non-red (i.e., green and blue) filter elements, leaving the red filter lines transparent.
Because of the presence of the filter elements everywhere in the image, additive colour transparencies are much denser than subtractive ones; at high magnification the filter raster pattern may also become visible.
Then when one of Honeywell's customers -- the Jiffy Lube chain, for example -- orders a thousand oil filters, the suppliers at the other end will instantly know this and begin to make the metal casings, filter elements and tops, shipping them to Honeywell factories for final assembly.
