Why is Air Purification needed?

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Air Purification is needed in order to solve airborne infection problems met in various sectors. It can be applied in order to prevent such problems but also to cure existing contamination encountered.

Due to increasing airborne infectious control problems met on a worldwide basis, air purification systems are becoming key elements in order to keep clean environments. Depending of the applications, Air Purification can be applied with a combination of measures (water and/or surfaces disinfection, cleaning protocols…) needed to offer a global solution for any clean environment.

We can identify below a non-exhaustive list of current airborne infection issues that can be met:

• VOC’s (Volatile Organic Compounds), Chemical agents, Agents causing allergies (dust mites, pollens…)
• Bacteria’s and viruses (SARS, H5N1, MRSA, Tuberculosis… and any other resistant strains to medicines), mold, yeast and fungi problems
• Bioterrorism attack (Anthrax)…

Air Related Facts

• 1 µ (micron) = 1 thousandth of a millimetre
• The smallest the eye can see is 10µ, or the smallest dot on a page. A hair is typically 100µ in diameter.
• Harmful pathogens are in the range between 0.01 to 0.5 microns.
• One litre of indoor air can contain more than 100 million particles. We breathe 7 litres per minute in slow/normal breathing (10,080 l of air per day).
• A 30ml bolus of Norwalk Like Virus (NLV or D&V) will release over 3 million virus particles into the air.
• One in five people now suffer with an allergy.
• Asthma is now the most common childhood disease.
• During the bed making process in a hospital ward there are high increases in the bio-burden to over 6000 cfu’s (colony forming units) per cubic metre.
• Most people on average spend almost 90% of their time indoors with indoor air quality generally poorer than outdoor.