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If you’re interested in improving your indoor air with air purifier machines, you might want to know about some of the best new technologies. Scientists have been working on new features to make these appliances more effective. Some are pretty impressive.
Many people think about an air purifier as just a plastic shell with a filter inside. There’s more to it than that. High design starts with particular kinds of well-engineered filtration. Then there are other features that can help you get more out of your air purifier in the long run.
Why You Need a Quality Air Purifier
We’re dealing with a multitude of challenges when it comes to the quality of the air that we breathe.
There’s the kind of pollution that’s classified as “greenhouse gases,” but there are also items like wood smoke that actually have potentially harmful ultrafines (very small particles) in high quantities.
Then you have all of those chemicals that come out of consumer goods. That includes furniture or building materials. Some of these are often referred to as Volatile Organic Compounds or VOCs. For example, formaldehyde is in many consumer products. It is a probable carcinogen according to the EPA. Benzene is another chemical we know as a VOC that can be harmful to the human respiratory system. It is in items like degreasers and some kinds of cleaners.
Those are important reasons to invest in a good air purification system. There’s another one, too. Some people develop allergies to natural materials like mold, or dust mites, or pet dander. Your allergies or health responses might be severe, or much milder. Either way, it’s always a good idea to clean the air that you breathe, as some of these conditions can emerge or worsen over time.
In any case, check out some of the best engineering for air purifier machines:
HEPA Filtration
The HEPA filter is a gold standard when it comes to removing contaminants from indoor air.
A HEPA filter has to be up to certain specific standards set by regulators. A medical grade HEPA filter must capture at least 99.97% of particles that are 0.3 microns in diameter, making it highly effective at filtering out dust, pollen, mold spores, and even some bacteria and viruses.
In order to achieve this, many HEPA filters have an accordion style or pleated design that enlarges the surface area of the filter and traps more particles, down to a very small size.
We often recommend the customers buy an air purifier with HEPA filtration.
Ceramic Core Technology
Some air purifiers also have something called a ceramic core.
This is when the air purifier has a ceramic element. The heat from the ceramic core can help with cleaning the air.
A ceramic core is different technology than activated carbon. Activated carbon tends to work well on chemicals and odors, and doesn’t focus as much on particle control. The ceramic core can be a very effective way to remove more small particles from indoor air.
Probiotics
This is an interesting one – some new air purifiers actually use a high quality probiotic filled with healthy bacteria to cleanse the air that you breathe in an indoor space – visit BetterAir’s site to learn more.
The idea here is to introduce healthy bacteria to fight potentially harmful microbes in an enclosed area. In addition to filtration or other technology, the machine is spreading these helpful probiotics around the space, and changing the equation when it comes to livable, breathable air.
Choosing Your Air Purifier Machine
Now that you know more about some of the best air purifier technology, you can figure out which appliances are right for you. If you’re dealing with pet odor and pet dander, you might want something with activated carbon, or you might want to make sure you get HEPA filtration for a certain standard of pollution removal.
As for VOCs, many customers want an appliance with activated carbon.
You can also ask about what’s added to ceramic cores to heat air to high temps, and why that is done.
You can also ask US Air Purifiers LLC about warranties and pricing, and everything else that you want to think about when you’re shopping for an air purifier machine. We know how to advise our customers on what’s just right for a particular need and space, with attention to air changes per hour, an important metric for full cleaning. Ask and get the information that you need to purchase confidently!