Air Purifiers - Information on Ionizer Technology
One of the ways you can get rid of pollutants from your house is an air purifier ionizer, a technique that is pretty effective at getting many allergens out of the air. Essentially, what the ionizer does is charge particles so that they become attracted to nearby surfaces. This way, instead of staying in the air where you can breathe them in, particles will fall onto surfaces instead. You'll probably want to make sure that the purifier that you get has a charge plate. The plate is basically just a surface inside the air purifier for particles to adhere to. This is a big deal because if it doesn't have one, the particles are going to come out of the purifier and be attracted to room surfaces near the machine - so your floor may end up extremely dusty nearby it if you don't have one.
You'll want to make sure that you aren't getting a machine
that uses or produces ozone. This is a general recommendation from the EPA -
even where you use an air purifier safely, it often can have problems with
ozone production that gets concentrated in dangerous amounts in certain parts
of the room. An air purifier ionizer doesn't need to use ozone - but there are
many brands labeled ionic that in fact do produce ozone as part of the process
of ionization. If you want to avoid ozone entirely, you'll have to do a check
on the specifications to see whether it makes any or not. They will disclose
this to you and it is usually pretty easy to find the exact amount of ozone
produced in testing. What brands have ionization technology?
Sharper Image is one to take a look at - they make the Ionic Breeze, but
it uses ozone-based technology. One brand that has gotten good reviews is
Holmes
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