Dynamic Air Cleaners The Next Generation of Air Filtration
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Dynamic Air Cleaners The Next Generation of Air Filtration
Configurations, Installation, pad is put in its place. There are no parts
and Maintenance to regularly clean.
Dynamic Air Cleaners come in a number Whether a home, hospital, or corporate
of configurations to meet the headquarters, the most valuable assets
requirements of each installation. Our in any building are the people inside.
Panel Air Cleaners can slide into existing Dynamic air-cleaning systems will
1” and 2” filter tracks, our V-Banks can protect the people and your other assets
slide into bag and box filter headers, and from the harmful effects of airborne
our attractive overhead and console contaminants.
units can provide additional air cleaning
where it is needed.
In addition to being highly effective,
Dynamic Air Cleaners are easy and
inexpensive to maintain. The filter itself
consumes pennies’ worth of power per
month. When the filter pad is fully
loaded, generally after four to six months
of operation, it is removed and a new
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Dynamic Air Customer Satisfaction and
Clean Air
quality in offices have yielded significant
decreases in absenteeism.
Cleaners are the Indoor air quality has a direct impact on
the comfort and well-being of the people
Good air quality can benefit the bottom
line in other ways as well. Cleaner coils,
next generation in a building. The hospitality industry has
known this for years: customer
lower system static, less housekeeping,
and potentially less outdoor air can all
of air-cleaning satisfaction is directly tied to the ability of
the establishment to control smoke and
bring about substantial savings.
Unfortunately, most HVAC systems are
technology— odors. But pick up any newspaper and
you will see that molds, bacteria, volatile
designed to heat and cool air, not to
clean it. Also, system upgrades can be
organic compounds, particles, and other
providing airborne contaminants are causing
costly and difficult.
problems in offices, factories, schools, Dynamic Air Cleaners
superior air and hospitals. Furthermore, in two
recent studies, improvements in air
That’s where Dynamic Air Cleaners come
in. Dynamic Air Cleaners install into
quality for virtually any HVAC system. From 200 cfm
PTACs to 200,000 cfm built-up units,
virtually any there is a Dynamic Air Cleaner to provide
superior air quality and lower
application, operating costs.
improving
satisfaction and
health of
building
occupants.
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In casinos, industrial plants, and of the filter pad, giving each fiber a The one control measure that does this is
hospitals, Dynamic Air Cleaners have negative and positive pole—just like a the ability to agglomerate and capture
proven themselves worldwide in the magnet. Particles entering the filter then submicron particles. (A micron is a
most rigorous environments. But they become polarized and are drawn to the 25,000th of an inch; a human hair is
are also able to bring air quality to filter fibers, the same way that paper about 150 microns.) Submicron particles
schools, offices, and hotel rooms. clips are drawn to a magnet. Just as are the vast majority of what is in the air
paper clips on a magnet attract other (by count, over 98 percent of the
How They Work— paper clips, the dirt collected by the filter particles), including contaminants such
Dynamic Air Cleaners’ becomes part of the collecting surface, as cigarette smoke, viruses, and dust
Patented Technology giving the filter increasing efficiency as it damaging to lungs, and are linked to an
Dynamic Air Cleaners combine elements increasing number of health problems.
of both passive filters and electronic air Because of their mechanisms, Dynamic
cleaners. In our unique system, safe, low- Air Cleaners are able to capture more
Carbon
current DC power is continuously applied center than 98 percent of particles 0.3 microns
to the center screen (either aluminum or screen and greater in a recirculating system.
carbon mesh) within the disposable filter Furthermore, they are able to
pad. This creates an electrostatic field agglomerate and capture the smallest
between the center screen and the filter contaminants.
frame. This force field polarizes each fiber
Performance
Single-Pass Efficiency
loads with contaminants. Furthermore, Particles 0.3–0.5 microns: 33% to 75%
the polarizing field causes the smallest Particles 0.5–1.0 microns: 75% to 95%
particles to form into larger groups that
are more easily captured. This
agglomeration, plus the carbon center Multiple-Pass Efficiency
screen, allows Dynamic Air Cleaners to Particles 0.3–0.5 microns: 97%
capture odors and gas-phase
contaminants as well. Particles 0.5–1.0 microns: 98.6%
How They Perform
There are three basic problem categories Pressure Drop @ 300 fpm
in indoor air: particle, biological, and gas 0.15" wg, 0.37 Pa for standard filter pad
phase. To fully impact air quality, an air
cleaner must be able to address all three. 0.21" wg for carbon pad
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Dynamic Air Cleaner
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How They Compare Cleaners can provide another level of air
Traditional high-efficiency alternatives quality. Where high-efficiency passive
are in two categories: passive filters and filters are an alternative, angled Dynamic
electronic air cleaners. Passive filters rely Air Cleaners can supply equal or better
on the density of the media for capture, air quality at a far lower cost.
and the tradeoff for efficiency is pressure Electronic air cleaners rely on
drop and cost. Filters in most buildings electrostatic attraction, using a high DC
just keep visible dust (10 microns and voltage to charge (or ionize) particles and
larger) from building up on the coil and then collecting them on oppositely-
other equipment. In other words, they charged plates. When the plates are
are there to clean the air for the clean, the electronic air cleaner can be
equipment and not the people. Because very efficient. However, as the plates
of space and static requirements, unless load, the efficiency declines significantly.
an HVAC system was designed for high- Then the unit will generate charged
efficiency passive filters, retrofitting them particles that, uncaught, will stick to
can be difficult and costly. Also, passive grounded surfaces such as duct work,
filters have little or no ability to influence coils, furnishings, and people. Electronic
gas-phase contaminants. Where 1" and air cleaners also generate toxic ozone.
2" passive filters are used, Dynamic Air
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