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The Essential Guide For Optimal Air Quality In Your Life
After a long time of researching and writing all the essential information about air pollution and how you can improve the air quality for you and your community, the book is ready. I am very thrilled to share this book with you all and I will be even happier if you share it with your friends and family as well. I tried to keep it as simple as possible without unnecessary information. You can see the table of contents below and take a small idea of what is inside this book.Read More »
There are more than 100 studies demonstrating that poor air quality and pollution can affect your respiratory system (lungs, throat, etc) but what about our vision and our eyes. Does air pollution affects our Eyes?
The short answer is yes! Think about how you feel when your eyes come in contact with pollen (in case you are allergic) or heavy smoke, they immediately become red and itchy! The effects of the air pollution have not been studied enough yet on the same way as on the respiratory system, but I am sure scientists are doing the best they can.Read More »
It is very interesting how society works and how people get influenced. I am in my thirties which means I am not a wise old man despite of that I have done my own observations.
It hard to convince people that the climate is changing and global warming is true and even if they believe you they won’t do anything about it. The reason is simple, convenience! It is a lot easier for people to do the incorrect and easy than doing the right and more thoughtful. Some people also “think” that by coming in this world everything is theirs and somehow they can waste it.
Then education plays an import part, educational systems that are insufficient and wrong in many ways. Still teaching religion subjects at school even in higher levels of education instead of teaching about the environmental issues, how to respect the society actively and being an aware person and not egomaniac through consumerism.Read More »
For quite some time now I am noticing that when I cook the air always flows from the kitchen to my master bedroom. The pattern that the air follows inside each house is unique, in my case both rooms are connected directly maybe because the master bedroom has bigger volume than the second bedroom at the northen part of the house. When I don’t cook, the house breathe mostly because I have the kitchen window open and forces the air to flow from north to south.
I cook with the ventilation hood on but when I bake and the ventilation is off all the odors and gases travel to my bedroom which is annoying because odors tend to trap inside the textiles and mattresses.
Why is that important? Well in case you want to ventilate the house fast, by knowing the right combination of open windows that will allow the house to breathe the greatest air quantity the quickest possible. For example this is the quickest way to get rid of CO2 without loosing too much heat in winter. In summer it allows the house to stay cool and fresh.
Someone will say that it feels that I am attacking them too much but in respect they don’t do anything to make things better with their cars. Millions and millions are still circulating around the world producing great quantities of toxic gases like CO and NOx. I see them and I breathe them every day on my commute to work or gym, trying desperately to avoid them, but they are too many.
They even apologized back in 2015 with an ad by giving $500 to clients for future purchase. Come on! What about the people that they don’t own one, but breathe all those toxic gases?
There was a traffic Jam from Almeria to Murcia yesterday that decrease the air quality inside the car, the windows were closed. The traffic jam last for about 10 minutes and I could feel the toxic gases surrounding me. As you can see on the picture the sky was clear and the weather conditions normal. Poor cyclists cycle around cars.
Reviewing the CleanSpace Tag was a priority for me as it is the only available affordable $50 and easy to carry on device that measures air pollution and helps #seetheair everywhere.
Features:
Carbon Monoxide CO Sensor 0.3 to 492 ppm
Temperature Sensor
Freevolt Technology
Bluetooth Smart (BLE)
It weighs only 51g. When I first took it on my hands I thought it was empty inside, but it wasn’t of course. It is almost the same size as the iPhone 5/5s/5c, but thinner which makes it super convenient for handling it. Also it comes in a cool packaging, recyclable 100%.
I always thought that air quality inside parking lots were suffocating. And now I have some proofs. I took a quick measurement with the CleanSpace Tag and left from there as soon as possible. 86.9ppm of Carbon Monoxide!!! Tragically there was a man without any kind of mask working inside this parking lot guiding drivers where to park.
Next week a complete review for the CleanSpace is coming. Stay tuned!
2017 New Air Purifiers in the market that use new ideas and technologies to clean the air from VOCs to PMs. As you can see on the green column I have mentioned the best and the cheapest way to improve air quality indoors, it’s a reminder for those that can apply this principle and when the outdoor air is cleaner than the indoor.
Prices may vary during time.
Some Companies don’t specify on their datasheets some of the infos.
There are hundreds of air purifiers out there I have just included some of them, if you want to suggest another one please feel free to mention it on a comment below and I will be happy to add it.
The classification of the design is based on my personal criteria, what’s aesthetically nice or not.
The Modular City Air Cleaner aka MCAC is a stracture-device made by a company called Vivex Engineering. Their aim is to alleviate cities from air pollution.
Well, we all know how polluted is the air in cities full of thin dust that are residual of rust, asphalt, tyres, rubber, various ashes, crumble of cement, stones and other more.
The MCACcan be realized in various shapes in function of the final destination of use and can be equipped with or without internal fans (in case of canalized applications). What is even more great about the MCAC is that has been designed as a power saving-oriented machine and it can be equipped with photovoltaic panels for energetic autonomy. It can be integrated in already existing structures as for example inside the beams of a bridge. The generator looks very compact size, has a pressure drop of about 10 Pa and has a very low power consumption of approximately 40W per1000m³/h of treated air.
The device uses the Cold Plasma technology which has the biggest effect against bacteria, viruses, dust. See the performance range table below.
The air crosses the plasma step and then goes to the scrubber step. There the air passes through water and the water is enhanced by substances taken off the air and is collected in a tank below. A complex automatic loading of clean water, periodically provide integrated water that is absorbed from the air due to evaporate and purge a portion of that contained in the tank. The purified air come out from the top.
Example: MCAC’s implementation
The Cold Plasma generates by-products like Hydroxyl H and OH, Ozone O3, Oxygen peroxide H2O2 and Nitrogen Monoxide NO. The NO + O3 are converted in NO2 + O2 but as the company has implicated some additional filtration steps then the bad by-products of the cold plasma process are eliminated. For example when NO2+O2 passes through the washing step is converted in Nitrous acid HNO2 because it is soluble in water and remain inside a water tank where becomes Nitrite Salts, so the air comes out clean.
It performs very well with most of the air pollutants. In the table below you can see how effective is with dust particles PMs, Nitrogen Oxide NO2 and Carbon Monoxide CO.
This technology isn’t low-priced but it is affordable for governments and municipalities especially in big cities like Madrid, Milan, Paris, London, etc where air pollution is very high and citizens need desperately clean air.
See The Air 