HVAC Filtration Articles
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Using Smart Technology to Measure Indoor Air Quality
Scenario As life begins to normalise and the promising roadmap our government has set out is delivered on, the leisure and fitness sector will be key in building people’s mental and physical wellbeing back to a healthy level. For some, just having access to these environments will be the most important factor, but for many the access is just as important as the environment itself. From ...
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Increasing Predictive Maintenance ROI - Improve Predictive Maintenance Profitability with Modular Industrial Air Filtration
Save Maintenance Time and Money with Modular Industrial Air Filtration According to the Department of Energy, predictive maintenance can reduce overall industrial maintenance costs by up to 30%, cut downtime by up to 45%, and decrease breakdowns by more than 70%. If you’re a shop floor manager, you already know that proactive maintenance is key to preventing unplanned equipment outages, ...
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Clearing the Air for Weld Shop Productivity - Engineered Industrial Air Filtration - Case Study
Situation A North American weld shop needed a cost-effective way to isolate their robotic welding machine and contain the large clouds of indoor weld smoke that placed both employees and plant productivity at risk. PPE reduced respiratory threats, but did nothing to improve work area visibility. In addition to covering their OSHA and EPA bases, the company needed a clean air solution to: ...
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Lean Into Clean, Safe Manufacturing - Case Study
Situation Painting a 30-foot wide electric turbine is a formidable maintenance task, especially for manufacturers trying to go more lean by eliminating wastes and increasing efficiencies. For one global energy equipment manufacturer, sanding or spray painting even a single electric turbine required shutting down seven different operations in the hangar, until each task was completed. While not ...
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The Ultimate Match in Economic Efficiency
Lean & Modular Industrial Air Filtration In the face of new economic uncertainties, it may be time for manufacturers to turn to their “lean” roots to apply small ideas to solve seemingly enormous problems. Perhaps this starts with asking questions such as, “What can we do to eliminate inefficiencies associated with potentially-hazardous machining, sanding, coating/painting, ...
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Is Your HVAC System Operating The Way It Should?
HVAC Definition ‘HVAC” refers to the system that supplies heating or air conditioning to the occupied spaces of the building—whether office, factory, warehouse, or residence (HVAC stands for Heating, Ventilating, Air Conditioning). HVAC Systems in Commercial Buildings I want to focus on HVAC systems in commercial buildings. No matter what type of air filtration is used in the ...
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It’s Time to Push for Greater Use of Higher MERV-Rated Air Filters
Technological advances over the last 30 years have increased the amount of sub-micron particles in the air we breathe. Manufacturing processes, material off-gassing and emissions are all adding to the airborne particulate matter that human bodies are not designed to filter. These particles can enter our bloodstreams through our lungs and cause a range of health problems. Indoor air pollution has ...
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Get real manufacturing OEE improvement with modular air filtration
If you conducted an OEE analysis today, would your manufacturing processes pass muster? Or would your overall equipment effectiveness results show wasted downtime on activities like material handling, rearranging shop floors for moving large units, and filter changes on permanent clean air enclosures? Housekeeping activities like these are often viewed as necessary evils to maintain product ...
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Manufacturing industries heavily impacted by indoor air quality challenges
Employees who don’t work in an industrial profession probably take indoor air quality for granted. But without clean air, CNC machining, stamping, cutting, grinding, welding, and coating processes pose serious health risks for employees. Illness-related lost man-hours and rampant turnover can devastate a shop floor production schedule. Here are just a few manufacturing industries who face ...
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HVAC pocket bag air filter
Pocket bag air filters can be made of synthetic pocket bag filter material or pocket synthetic fiber media blended with active carton, as well as the fiber glass pocket bag filter materials with various filter efficiency, mainly from F5~F9 (CRAA 430) or EU5~EU9 (EN779) or MERV9~MERV15 (ASHRAE). The pocket bag filters often installed in HVAC systems, so also called HVAC pocket bag air filter, ...
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Ventilation – Inspecting and Testing – Commercial and Industrial Buildings
Inspecting your Ventilation (HVAC) System “HVAC” refers to the system that supplies heating or air conditioning to the occupied spaces of the building—whether office, factory, warehouse or residence (HVAC stands for Heating, Ventilating, Air Conditioning). I want to focus on HVAC systems in commercial buildings. No matter what type of air filtration is used in the system, it ...
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Indoor air quality problems – If it isn’t Mold, What is it?
Why are you experiencing indoor air quality problems? There are a number of employees in our office who have itchy, watery eyes, nasal congestion, headaches, lethargy, and trouble concentrating. Most of the affected folks report they feel better at home and worse after they’ve been in the office for about an hour. We had the office tested for mold but nothing remarkable was found. ...
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Is the solution to pollution dilution?
Controls and monitors are part of environments where cleaning and purifying air moves beyond the usual HVAC filters and ventilation air. We can now utilize sensors and real time monitors that identify, track, and assure safe destruction of: mold, odors, allergens, bacteria, viruses, corrosion, chemical gases, and VOCs. Powerful proprietary filter media, adapted to each environment’s unique ...
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Explosion Proof UV Lights for Commercial and Industrial HVAC systems
In the past decade, more and more people have been installing UV lights in their HVAC systems to eradicate harmful bacteria. A timely study from Duke University Medical Center has proven the effectiveness of using UVC bands to disinfect a myriad of dangerous microbes, including drug-resistant bacteria, such as Acinetobacter, Clostridium difficile and vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE). During ...
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Gas-phase air filtration: Protecting you from what you can’t see
Air filtration, covered previously, targets solid matter (particulates) such as dirt, dust, leaves, and any visible airborne debris. Gas-phase filtration is for the unseen pollution that is airborne gases that may have an odor–but not always. This is chemistry that came from a liquid or solid to become a gas at ambient temperature. Gases act very differently than particles since they are ...
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Confusion over the word “filter”
I find that using the word “filter” conjures up very different pictures and understanding in people’s minds as everybody has the reference of home furnace filters–mostly the low end of possibilities. There are many filter types and various purposes making it very confusing. Here’s what I say to make sure who I’m talking to understands what I am talking about. ...
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‘Sleeper’ Issue: Indoor Air Quality
Thirty percent of commercial buildings in the United States have poor indoor air quality (IAQ), according to an article in Buildings. And a white paper from UL entitled “Dawn of the Building Performance Era,” refers to IAQ as a “sleeping giant” in the United States. The paper finds a major cause of poor indoor air quality is the growing amount of chemicals in buildings, ...
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Hepa this Hepa that, is there such thing as a true Hepa vacuum?
We all see it, the big Hepa sticker on the side so we automatically believe the vacuum must be a Hepa rated vacuum, right? - Sorry the chances are the Vacuum would never pass a Certified D.O.P test. Just because a vacuum has a Hepa filter doesn't make it a Hepa vacuum, many factors have to be taken into account such as: The Hepa Filter needs to be sized according to the airflow that the impeller ...
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Indoor air quality problems
We have a number of employees in our office who have itchy, watery eyes, nasal congestion, headaches, lethargy and trouble concentrating. Most of the affected folks report they feel better at home and worse after they’ve been in the office for about an hour. We had the office tested for mold but nothing remarkable was found. What’s going on? While exposure to molds can certainly ...
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