There are companies that claim to clean your air with the removal of ozone.  There is no scientific proof to support this claim.  The EPA has found that while that low levels of ozone may reduce some airborne virus materials, the percentage falls short by 5 to 10 times the public health standards.  Even at high concentrations, ozone is thought to be ineffective toward contaminants. Ozone is only [...]

An air cleaner is an aid to better health but there are no guarantees that your symptoms of allergies or asthma will magically disappear by using an air cleaner.  Different people have different degrees of health problems and to say that an air cleaner, alone, would cure your ills would be a misnomer. Some air cleaners are designed to remove only large particles while others remove small particles.  [...]

A portable air cleaner can be an asset if you do not have a whole house filtration unit.  It can also be easily moved from room to room, depending on where you spend most of your time.  But if you are unable to see most of the particles in the air, how do you know if they are adequately being removed? The effectiveness of air cleaners is measured by clean air delivery rate (CADR).  This method was [...]

Most people think that an air cleaner just takes in the air, cleans it and spits it back out.  This is an untrue statement.  Different air cleaners perform different types of functions and knowing the function of each is important. There are two basic types of air cleaning units that remove particles from the air, electronic air cleaners, and mechanical air filters.  Mechanical air filters remove [...]

The United States is not the only country that has been hard at work designing air filtration systems to provide a cleaner indoor environment.  Klaus and Manfred Hammes of Germany designed and patented an air filtration system in1963.  Attaching small magnets to a fiberglass pad and attaching to the air outlet of an oil home oven, soot was filtered and stopped from floating in the air. 1971 brought [...]

3M just couldn’t let HEPA be number one in the air cleaner arena so they created the Filtrete Ultra Clean Air Purifier that not only gives HEPA a run for its money but also provides the quietest unit on the market. The 3M Filtrete Ultra Clean Air Purifier is designed for single room use with a three-speed fan that is known to capture 90% of large airborne allergens.  Microscopic pollutants are [...]

Have you ever noticed that allergies are more prominent today than they were fifty years ago?  You may say that we just didn’t have the technology back then to treat illnesses but that isn’t the case.  People had allergic reactions to rag weed, allergies to certain foods and a very small percentage had allergies to pet dander. It wasn’t until the 60s that government regulations [...]

The HEPA air cleaner is still the number one recommended mechanical device for allergies according to users.   First designed in the 1940s, the HEPA filter has continued to seek out better ways to improve its product but still has its initial design. High-Efficiency Particle Arresting (HEPA) filters go have a three-mechanism system designed to trap and hold on to particles without releasing back [...]