According to experts, the 2015 spring allergy season is predicted to be a bad one. Stan recommends two state-of-the art solutions to make your entire home a haven for the allergy sufferers in your family.
A large number of portable air cleaners are available at home centers and on the internet. These range from relatively ineffective small table-top units to large noisier units that can at best treat the air in a single room. Their contribution to healthy air is largely a factor of the volume of air they handle.
Whole home solutions incorporated into your home’s heating and cooling system are by far the most economical approach to improving indoor air quality. These collect and destroy irritants from the air circulating through the ductwork thus delivering clean conditioned air to every room in your home.
Many manufacturers and their representatives among our competitors offer a host of air cleaning “solutions” backed by wide-ranging claims of effectiveness. But after a careful study of all the available data, Stan has narrowed his recommendations to the only two products that are firmly supported by university research:
Here’s how it works:
For years, manufacturers and HVAC contractors have incorporated UV bulbs into their air cleaning systems in an attempt to purify indoor air. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the effectiveness of such systems has been limited by the one-inch rule. That means that a pollutant must come within one inch of the UV bulb preferably in still air to cause even a minimal amount of purification.
The next generation technology to come along — photo chemical oxidation (PCO) — coupled the UV light with a titanium dioxide catalyst to chemically generate a plasma of oxides and hydroxyls. When circulated through the air, these free radicals would come in contact with pollutant molecules and neutralize them by oxidizing them into harmless water vapor.
But there was a problem: the process produced ozone — a respiratory irritant.
The active TekTM system utilizes a new ozone-free technology developed by NASA scientists to safely scrub the air and surfaces in spacecraft. This same radiant catalytic ionization (RCI) technology is incorporated into the activ TekTM system. Here a high-intensity UVX bulb is surrounded by a honeycomb matrix coated with four rare metals to produce a plasma of safe oxides and hydroxyls. Its effectiveness is verified by on-going research conducted by Dr. James Marsden and his team at Kansas State University. That research has been augmented by on-going studies on particle removal at both the University of Cincinnati and Syracuse University.
activTekTM is the ONLY air purification company that can provide scientific substantiation of kill rates of over 99.99% of the likes of bacteria, viruses, mold and even Avian Flu.
Protect your family from seasonal allergies, from mold spores, dust mite allergens, biological/chemical contaminants, cold/flu viruses and more throughout the year.
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