Allerair Air Purifiers - Technology

Many times the quality of your indoor air is more hazardous than the outdoor pollution in the air; this is where the filter technology comes in that AllerAir has designed for their air purifiers. There are chemical gasses and odors that have become much more of a danger than the bacteria and viruses in the air that you breath. The AllerAir products include a MAC-B filter that has between 18 and 2,000 pounds of activated carbon that is designed to safely remove chemical gases, odors, mold contamination, and other such dangerous airborne particles that are in the air that you breathe, eliminating any potential long term respiratory health problems that may occur.

The AllerAir air purifiers are equipped with activated carbon beds that are three inches deep, helping to provide the maximum adsorption of any hazardous chemicals and odors. This is much deeper than other models on the market at this time. The HEPA filters from AllerAir are warm rolled in order to prevent the pleats from cracking. Many other manufacturers use the much cheaper method of cold rolling their HEPA filters.

Whether it is fire, flood, mold, or chemical odors, AllerAir air purifiers can meet your need. AllerAir air purifiers don't simply just mask the odors like many of the ozone machines do. They contain massive amounts of activated carbon that absorbs the odors from mold, chemicals, fire, or floods. When your home or office has been affected by a fire or flood, over baring chemicals, or mold, there are always very strong odors that are left behind that are near impossible to get rid of. With the help of HEPA filter technology that is coupled with MAC-B carbon, these safe and effective tools will create air that will be crisp and clean smelling.

All of the AllerAir air purifiers are built to be very versatile and portable. They are very easy to switch from odor absorbing to particle trapping. This makes them very easy for businesses to handle them and for homes where time is of the essence.
The filtration system has four different levels. The first level is the pre filter which traps the much larger dust particles. This filter simply stops the larger particles to pass through, possibly clogging the other filters that filter out the much smaller particles. The pre filter can be easily removed and cleaned with a vacuum cleaner.

The second step in the AllerAir filtration process is the mass activated carbon bed or the MAC-B filter. This filter is designed to adsorb the gases and odors that may arise from chemicals or building products such as artificial wood which contains formaldehyde. Unlike many of the off the shelf air purifying systems which contain a minimal amount of activated carbon which only adsorbs a small amount of gases and odors; AllerAir has designed their air purifiers with much activated carbon, anywhere from seven to 160 pounds to adsorb about 90 percent of noxious gases and chemical odors that can be found in homes, offices, and in industrial areas.

Step three includes the two AllerAir anti-microbial filters that are designed to kill airborne microbes as they pass through the filters.

The fourth step is the AllerAir HEPA filter which is designed to trap the airborne particles. The HEPA filters were developed by the Atomic Energy Commission to trap the radio-active particles. They are designed to capture at least 99.97 percent of particles that are as small as 0.3 microns.

The activated carbon filter is the only cost effective and safe way to trap the noxious gases and odors. The carbon filter is treated with oxygen that opens up millions of tiny pores between the carbon atoms. There are so many of open pores between the carbon atoms that it has a surface area of up to about 60 to 150 acres. Activated carbon isn't just used in air purifiers, but also in military gas masks. The carbon substance keeps the military personnel from breathing in any fatal poisonous gases. The same type of activated carbon is used in filtering water as well.

If the activated carbon filter is bigger, then the more it will be able to filter out. An activated carbon filter acts much like a sponge, once it is full; it is no longer going to work as it was designed to work. The more activated carbon you have in your air purifiers, the more bad odors and gases you are able to adsorb before having to replace it with a new one. Most filters that are from seven to 48 pounds will usually last about nine to 24 months before needing to be replaced.