Air cleaners for clean and hygienically perfect air

Do you know how much air we are breathing every single day? More than 10,000 litres of air are required on a daily basis! This roughly corresponds to a capacity of more than 71 bath tubs. Each litre contains dust, at home even a great deal more than outside. Dust can both be visible and invisible. A carpet for instance can hold eight times of its own weight in dust. Bacteria and viruses in the air are always invisible to the naked eye. And there are other critical substances whirling through the air as well. Furniture, laminate or panels can be contaminated by formaldehyde which is emitted to the air in your home or office over several decades. In some cases the air in interior spaces can be polluted up to ten times more by dust and other particles than the air outside. Since most people spend approximately 80 percent of their time in closed rooms, clean and healthy room air is of vital importance. Tidying, vacuuming and ventilating a room often is just not enough to remove the pathogenic particles from the room. An air cleaner eliminates pollutants fully automatically and additionally improves the air quality. It will certainly benefit your health. 

Air contaminated with dust and pollutants can be positively dangerous for allergy sufferers and asthmatics. In addition, a house-dust allergy is one of the most difficult-to-treat types of allergies there are. This is also due to the vast number of dust sources in a home. There is no harm in dust alone. However, house dust mites are considered to be the cause of many complaints. One teaspoonful of bedroom dust contains an average of 1,000 house dust mites and 250,000 faeces. In general, roughly six milligrammes of new dust per square metre are formed in living spaces each day. Therefore, the application of a high-performance air cleaner is more than reasonable if you are aiming for fresher, cleaner air.

But even if you do not experience any health restrictions at this point, room air quality is a key factor for staying healthy. Bacteria and viruses are invisible and can be found everywhere. A desk for instance is populated with a hundred times more bacteria than a kitchen. During the flu season, one cubic metre of air can contain up to 15,000 particles of influenza viruses, and even novel viruses such as the SARS-CoV-2 virus spread mainly via indoor air. In office spaces the breathing air is further polluted by evaporations from adhesives, felt tips and toners.

Why highly efficient HEPA filter systems are important?

Air cleaners of the AirgoClean^® series, which are fitted with multi-stage filter systems, provide very good results in room air improvement to help with allergies and other health issues. All air cleaners from Trotec are equipped with a two- or even three-stage filter combination.

By combining several different filter technologies, the air cleaners of the AirgoClean^® series reliably remove suspended particles and pathogens from the interior air. In addition to the highly effective HEPA filters of filter class 11, filtering bacteria, viruses, pollen, allergens, fine dust particles or mould spores up to a size of 1.0 micrometre from the room air with a separation efficiency of 95 %, the air cleaners AirgoClean^® 10 E and AirgoClean^® 15 E as well as AirgoClean^® 100 E are fitted with an additional  filter (synthetic fibre prefilter), which is able to filter odours of slight to medium intensity, coarse house dust and animal hair from the room air.

For clean air – without unpleasant odours

As the most powerful device of the AirgoClean^® series, the "triple protection" filter technology of the air cleaner AirgoClean^® 100 E is additionally equipped with a carbon filter to effectively neutralise in particular tobacco odours, pet odours, kitchen odours, smoke odours as well as formaldehyde and solvent odours. The AirgoClean^® 15 E from this air cleaner series can optionally be fitted with a carbon HEPA filter available as accessory.

The highly effective HEPA filters used in all air cleaners of the AirgoClean^® series are DOP-tested. The operating principle of these filters is highly efficient. A comparison to HEPA-like filters emphasizes the difference. These filters may have a lower purchase price, but their application quickly reveals the disadvantages. Especially when you're dealing with biogenic and anthropogenic fine particulates of less than one micrometre cheaper imitations cannot demonstrate nearly as good a filtration capacity as true HEPA filters. A quality air cleaner should definitely retain dust and even more so minute particles. This prevents the infinitesimal particles from reaching your lungs and blood stream. Anyone who wants to use an air cleaner to help with allergies will quickly identify the positive properties of a HEPA filter as opposed to other air purification techniques.

When using HEPA filters it is crucial that they are true HEPA filters. The classification as true HEPA filters guarantees an optimum quality. Look out for the correct labelling when purchasing air cleaners and filters.

If the filter efficiency is merely described as "HEPA-like" or as "comparable to HEPA filters", caution should be exercised. It may yield less than satisfactory results.

Trotec's air cleaners AirgoClean^® 10 E, AirgoClean^® 15 E and AirgoClean^® 100 E on the other hand are equipped with HEPA filters of protection class 11 promising perfect results when it comes to room air filtering.