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UK Air Filtration
Products & Services
Patent
Filtration Systems. Air Purification Filters for Clean
Rooms
Air
Filter Systems for Smoky Rooms and Offices
Over
the past few years Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) has become an
area of growing concern. As modern buildings have become
tighter, ventilation rates have been reduced and new contaminants
detected, resulting in increased levels of indoor air pollution.
One
major concern is the risk of health of passive smoking and
with the health and safety executive stating (under section
2 of the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974) employers
must ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health,
safety and welfare at work of all their employees –
the need to act is clear.
The
HSE recommends that all employers should have a specific
policy on smoking in the work place, which should give priority
to the needs of non-smokers who do not wish to breathe tobacco
smoke and that smokers should be segregated from non-smokers.
This is not always practical and prior to any statutory
requirements being put in place, industry as a whole needs
to react to and comply with the existing guidelines to improve
indoor air quality.
Filtaire
Air Cleaners recirculate air around enclosed spaces –
rooms, offices, hospitality suites, work areas, bars or
clubs. This process is completed many times an hour and
each time polluted air passes through special filters that
remove contaminants, thus returning cleaned air to the room.
Contaminants
may be a) particulate i.e. solid particles down to sub-micron
levels (1 micron = 1/1000th millimeter) or b) gaseous in
the form of volatile organic compounds (VOC’s) e.g.
solvent fumes and odours.
Both
the amount of the airflow and the type of filter being used
will determine the efficiency of the units. All Filtaire
units offer a selection of filter media to suit various
applications. Our 200 model has a single speed, the 300
has dual speed and both our 2000, and 5000 models have a
variable speed fan system so that air recirculation rates
can be adjusted to changing conditions.
Continuously recycling and filtering the air within any
enclosed space creates conditions that approach those of
a specially designed ‘clean room’. Hence, there
is a very significant reduction in the risk of breathing
in unwanted or potentially harmful contaminates such as
tobacco smoke, bacteria, viruses, pollens, spores etc. as
well as solvent vapours and odours. The air treated in this
way becomes cleaner than so called ‘fresh air’,
which in itself may be contaminated with exhaust fumes,
bacteria, spores, pollens and various other contaminates.
There are, thus, many cases where Air Cleaner systems will
give much better results than extraction or ventilation
systems.
Cleaner
Air for Products and Processes
Products
or processes may suffer from unwanted inclusion of dust
and dirt and other forms of airborne contamination. Air
cleaners are a low cost option to achieving ‘clean
room’ conditions, hence, invaluable for improving the
quality of the air to avoid spoiling products or processes.
A
Simple Low Cost Solution
The
Filtaire ranges are a simple arrangement of fan plus filter
(with the exception of the patented design of rotating the
filter media in our 300 and 200 models to create the air
flow), and therefore, have a low initial cost. They are
inexpensive to install because they do not require expensive
ductwork or fans. It is economic to operate only consuming
120watts. Because they recirculate the air, the Filtaire
range has the added advantage of not requiring additional
heating or cooling when compared with most extraction and
ventilation systems.
Copyright
2004 Patent Filtration Ltd.
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