What is the technology that makes our Air Purifiers the choice among the hype that is out there? Don't get fooled by slick television or internet marketing touting machines that are flimsy, poorly made from out-dated technology and cheap components or have hazardous side effects!
 Every Air Oasis air purifier features our patent pending catalyst. The Technology Behind Air Oasis UV Air Purifiers The Air Oasis™ air purifiers utilize state-of-the-art technology unique to any product currently on the market today: AHPCO™ Cell (Advanced Hydrated Photocatalytic Oxidation Cell) - The next generation in catalytic oxidation. The AHPCO™ Cell technology is far superior to the older stand alone UV lamps and catalytic oxidation methods with only one catalyst used in competitor air purifiers.
This is the latest advanced oxidation technology that consists of a proprietary, high-intensity broad spectrum UV lamp in a hydrated catalytic cell utilizing our patent-pending quad-nano Xtreme™ coating. Ozone is produced in the cell via the HE/UV lamp, the majority of which is converted into airborne hydro peroxides (H2O2), hydroxyl ions(OH-), super oxide ions(O2-) and ozonide ions(O3-) via the quad-nano Xtreme™ quad-metallic catalyst.
These friendly cleansing ions treat your indoor air by:
• Suppressing bacteria growth (bacteriostatic)
• Suppressing mold growth (mycostatic)
• Suppressing viruses
• Suppressing VOC's
• Reducing odors
• Reducing small particles (for larger particles, such as pet hair, a filter is recommended)
The Air Oasis air purification units do not require noisy high speed fans in order to clean the air in your home or office. CADR (clean air delivery rate) is also a word of the past with our advanced technology. The fans utilized in our units simply push the five ions created into the air which then radiate through your entire home constantly destroying air borne and surface contaminants. Since the ions are present in your air 24/7 the air is constantly being cleaned without have to pass through the unit. This makes our units extremely effective yet extremely compact in size so they can fit easily into your home decor without becoming a main focal point.
Pros over competition: Low cost, no yearly maintenance, no installation, airborne hydro peroxides, super oxide ions and hydroxide ions travel through the house providing 24-hour protection against airborne mold, bacteria, viruses, odors and VOC’s. The cell also acts as a germicidal lamp and treats the air that passes by it. *Note 1: Federal safety limits are .04 ppm. At .02 ppm or less this is not considered an ozone device.
Why are the ions produced by Air Oasis air purifiers safer than ozone?
The answer is really quite simple. It is all due to the oxidation defense system, within your body, which utilizes a special blend of enzymes. Have you ever cut yourself on accident and then used hydrogen peroxide on the wound? What happened? The hydrogen peroxide started to fizz or bubble when it made contact with your wound, right? But why? It's due to the reaction of certain enzymes within our body that protect us from hydro peroxide, ozone, hydroxyls, super oxides and more. One example is Glutathione peroxidase. It is a peroxidase found in humans, which contains selenocysteine. It uses glutathione as a electron donor and is active with both hydrogen peroxide and organic hydroperoxide substrates. Another enzyme is Catalase. Present in the peroxisomes of nearly all aerobic cells, it serves to protect the cell from the toxic effects of hydrogen peroxide by catalyzing its decomposition into molecular oxygen and water without the production of free radicals. Superoxide dismutase (CuZnSOD) catalyses the dismutation reaction of the toxic superoxide radical to molecular oxygen and hydrogen peroxide and thus forms a crucial part of the cellular antioxidant defense mechanism. Your body also contains many other antioxidants to help protect you from oxidation. More and more of the foods we eat and the supplements we take are being loaded with antioxidants as well. To put things in plain english; your body defends itself against these ions naturally, but mold, bacteria, viruses and other biological contaminants do not have the same defense mechanisms that we possess. Therefore the ions we produce are deadly to simply organism, but won't harm people or their pets.
Development of Our Patent-pending quad-nano Xtreme™ Catalyst Coating Summary
AHPCO™, is an Advanced Hydrated Photocatalytic Oxidation technology. Basically, it is a broad spectrum high intensity UV light targeted on our patent-pending quad-nano Xtreme™ quad metallic catalyst in a low-level ozone and moist atmosphere. This creates an advanced oxidation of friendly oxidizers. Unlike ozone, these oxidizers are safe, but yet aggressive at killing mold, bacteria, viruses and more. They also effectively neutralize odors and VOCs. Once they have done their job they revert back to oxygen and hydrogen. AHPCO technology has been successfully used in water, air, food and laundry applications. Development The UV light and ozone are not new discoveries.
Ozone was first discovered in the late 1800's and used as a water purifier in Europe. UV light was discovered in the 1930's. Actually, nature discovered it before; it was called the "sun". The disinfection qualities of UV light are also not new. Hospitals have used UV light for decades in operating rooms. Barbers were disinfecting combs in the 1950's with UV light. What is new is the enhancement of both these natural, friendly oxidizers and the validation for use on air, water, food and laundry. History of Air Systems In the mid-1980's air purifiers started to make their way into the residential market.
Ozone air systems were widely used in the commercial restoration business for fire and flood damage to buildings. These applications utilized corona discharge systems (CD) that use a spark or electrically charged plates to simulate lightning. This converted the oxygen (O2) to ozone (O3). The CD method creates very high concentrated ozone. Plus by using air as the oxygen source, you are receiving 20% oxygen and 80% nitrogen. The problem with CD systems is with oxygen conversion you also get a nitrogen conversion, which makes nitric acid and nitric oxide. The problem facing the residential air systems was that the cost of an oxygen generator was so high they went without one. This, of course, created a CD unit that produced high concentrated ozone plus low levels of nitric oxide and nitric acid. The maintenance was a problem due to the corrosive nature of nitric acid and the high concentration of ozone exceeding the Federal safety limits of .04 ppm.
Ozone readings at the exhaust have exceeded 10 ppm, which is potentially lethal.
Air Oasis decided to stay out of this dangerous market. In the late 1980's it was discovered that the lower concentration of ozone could have an effect on odors, mold and bacteria. Testing this theory, determined that safe, low levels of ozone could have a significant result with airborne mold, odors and bacteria. The problem was to create a safe residential air purifier that could produce safe, low concentrations of ozone that would not exceed the .04 ppm Federal limits. This was accomplished in the early 1990's, about the same time as the Federal Government was going after the ozone residential units. This battle of the Feds and manufacturers gave ozone a very bad name. With the technology to build a device that produces safe, low concentrations of ozone and the ability to ensure a room would not exceed .04 ppm, it was time to set out to validate the use of this device on mold, VOC's, odors and bacteria. Fox TV News was doing a three-part series on indoor air problems and tested one of the ozone units. The unit they had tested was producing 18 ppm ozone, a lethal amount that drove the camera crew and news reporter right out of the office. The Fox people then asked if they could independently test the AHPCO technology. They ran tests supervised by an independent air specialist and two medical doctors. The series turned out to be a fantastic infomercial for this technology. The results couldn't have been better. Fox ran this on their national news network and their national health news. Popular Science picked up the story for the magazine and ran it on the Popular Science TV Show.
In 2003 the AHPCO Cell was developed.
Rhodium was now added as a catalyst and improved hydration compounds were also added. Plus, a total new target concept was used. A 360 degree cell provided maximum exposure of the catalysts. The bulb was reworked and a HE/UV Broad Spectrum bulb with a heavy duty filament and long life coating was developed. This gave the new AHPCO Cell an unprecedented 3 year, 25,000 hour life. This was a major improvement over the current standard 8,000-10,000 hour UV bulb life.
The most important improvement was the efficacy, the new cell design created more hydro peroxides, super oxide ions and ozone levels were .01-.015 ppm or less. Country or forest air is usually around .01-.02 ppm of ozone. Most people can smell ozone at .01 ppm, and .05 ppm is the federal safe limit for medical devices. The new cell also produces hydroxide ions and ozonide ions which broadened the scope of capabilities. By using a AHPCO™ Cell with redundant oxidizers our scope of effectiveness is widely broadened.
Test for Ozone Levels
The ozone levels within the duct were .02 ppm which is the same as forest air. The ambient levels within the room were .01 ppm. With the new AHPCO™ Cell, oxidation is performed by super oxide ions, hydroxide ions, and hydro peroxide ions in air vapor rather than strong and dangerous ozone. The ambient levels in the average home will be in the ppb(parts per billion) range which is well below the FDA safety limit of 0.04 ppm(parts per million). Unlike most test results touted by competitors, we show the results in the ambient air and not directly over the air purifier. This provides a truer demonstration of the benefits.
Odor reduction
Air Oasis units have been shown to reduce odors by at least 40% in as little as four hours. odor reduction Bacteria, mold and yeast reduction Test results have shown that Air Oasis units can reduce mold, yeast and bacteria by as much as 98% in the ambient air of your home. VOC reduction Test results have shown that Air Oasis units can reduce VOCs by as much as 98% in short periods of time.
Is Ozone Safe?
Many companies marketing air purifiers today are causing much confusion over the difference between ozone and smog. This confusion is causing the public to believe that ozone and smog are one and the same. This could not be further from the truth. Smog is not ozone! Smog is a combination of harmful pollutants and chemicals found in the air. This occurs more frequently in the air of heavily congested inner cities. Smog is that haze that you see hanging over some of our larger cities around the world. Sources of VOCs and NO2 include the following:
• Automobiles, trucks and buses • Gasoline storage and transfer • Large combustion and industry sources such as utilities • Industrial use of solvents and degreasing agents • Consumer products such as paints and cleaners, Off-road engines such as aircraft, locomotives, construction equipment, and lawn and garden equipment. Ozone is formed through a complex chemical reaction between volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and oxides of nitrogen (smog) in the presence of sunlight and heat. Ozone is O3, three atoms of oxygen linked together, rather than the two atoms of oxygen, O2, we normally breath. Ozone is NOT smog.
While some people mistakenly refer to ozone as smog, smog is actually a combination of hydrocarbons, those being CO2, CO, and SO2 that react with UV rays from the sun to form nitric oxides (NOX). What is commonly called "ozone" in referring to the ground level air quality are really a mixture of different toxic hydrocarbons, not ozone. So the two cannot be the same! First we need to discuss the positive side of ozone. Ozone's benefits are widely accepted and recognized throughout the world. Unfortunately, ozone has been largely ignored in the United States. In the future ozone may replace many ineffective forms of air purification, once the public becomes educated to the real benefits of ozone.
Mother nature uses ozone to fight the negative effects of this contaminated air known as smog.
Ozone is that fresh air smell you experience after a thunderstorm. The negative ions produce that excited feeling that you experience after that same thunderstorm. Our bodies are electrical. We are attracted to the ionic changes in our atmosphere.
Exposure to high levels of ozone, not low levels of ozone, has been linked to a number of health effects, including significant decreases in lung function, inflammation of the airways, and increased respiratory symptoms, such as cough and pain when taking a deep breath. Exposure can also aggravate lung diseases such as asthma, leading to increased medication use and frequent medical visits. Active children are the group at highest risk from ozone exposure because they often spend a large part of the summer playing outdoors. Children are also more likely to have asthma, which may be aggravated by ozone exposure. Other at-risk groups include adults who are active outdoors (e.g., some outdoor workers) and individuals with lung diseases such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. In addition, long-term exposure to moderate levels of ozone (above .04) may cause permanent changes in lung structure, leading to premature aging of the lungs and worsening of chronic lung disease. Ozone also affects vegetation and ecosystems, leading to reductions in agricultural crop and commercial forest yields, reduced growth and survivability of tree seedlings, and increased plant susceptibility to disease, pests, and other environmental stresses (e.g., harsh weather).
In long-lived species, these effects may become evident only after several years or even decades and may result in long-term effects on forest ecosystems. Ground level ozone injury to trees and plants can lead to a decrease in the natural beauty of our national parks and recreation areas. Other research indicates that the level of ozone in areas such as forests, mountains, urban areas outside of the congestion of the major cities, usually is closer to a safe level of .02-.03 ppm of ozone. This is a far cry from the dangerous levels of ozone that most of the public has been led to believe exists everywhere in nature today. This is just enough ozone to keep our environment safe. These are the levels of ozone that should be used in your home to purify your air.
Many environmental experts would try to convince you that any ozone in your home may be potentially dangerous. This could not be further from the truth. The use of ozone to purify the air in your home has prompted other uses for the wonderful benefits of using ozone. Studies are being concluded showing beneficial uses for ozone. One such study was done recently at the University of Purdue. Taking a clue from air purification systems used in surgical suites, Purdue University researchers have discovered that ozone can eliminate insects in grain storage facilities without harming food quality or the environment. Ironically, the gas is being touted as a fumigant alternative in response to an international treaty banning the use of ozone-layer harming chemicals currently used to rid food storage facilities of insects. When ozone is used for killing grain insects, it lasts for a very short period of time without damaging the environment or the grain, the Purdue scientists report in the January issue Journal of Stored Products Research. "Ozone has a very short life and we're using relatively low dosages, but enough to kill an insect," said Linda Mason, Purdue entomology associate professor and co-author of the study. "The chemicals currently used can kill everything in and around the grain bin, including people. With ozone, we're not generating ozone at deadly concentrations, and we have better control over it when it's present.
"Purdue's Post Harvest Grain Quality Research team began its studies in response to the 1987 Montreal Protocol, an international agreement to prohibit substances deemed dangerous to the Earth's ozone layer. One such substance is methyl bromide, commonly used against crop pests in the soil and in grain storage facilities. Beginning in 2005, it no longer will be available. A replacement for chemical fumigants is imperative because insects not only eat the grain, they defecate on it causing development of fungi, primarily Fusarium and Aspergillus. These fungi can release potentially deadly mycotoxins that can cause illness in most livestock and have been linked to some forms of human cancer. In humans, approximately 76 million cases of food-borne disease occur annually in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Experts estimate that 5 percent to 10 percent of the world's food production is lost each year because of insects, and in some countries that figure is believed to be as high as 50 percent. In the latest study, Purdue researchers used ozone to treat rice, popcorn, soft red winter wheat, hard red winter wheat, soybeans and corn by the body. The treatments caused no significant difference in any of the nutritional and metabolic values of these substances in any of the grains studied, Mason said. The scientists began their study after a company that uses ozone air purification systems in hospitals noticed that air vents were cockroach free. Absence of cockroaches in a large building is unusual, so the researchers tested various ozone doses on different insects and found the gas was fatal to bugs. "All the species we tested seemed affected," Mason said. "The only ones we don't have control over are immature weevils since they are hidden within the kernels. Ozone, unlike chemical fumigants, doesn't penetrate into the kernel enough to kill immature insects." Currently, the researchers are studying ways to use ozone as a preventative treatment by possibly sealing of grain storage facilities with layers of ozone, much the way a jelly jar is capped with wax. This is an example of how beneficial ozone can be but I must reiterate the fact that ozone is not smog!
Here is a list of other benefits to using ozone:
1. Ozone keeps water fresh.
2. Ozone keeps water clean and sparkling.
3. Ozone eliminates oils and other contaminants from water
4. Ozone eliminates odors from the air.
5. Ozone oxidizes iron, sulfur, manganese, and hydrogen sulfate.
6. Ozone eliminate, spores, cysts, yeast, and fungus.
7. Ozone destroys, bacteria, viruses, mold, and mildew.
8. Maybe the most important, ozone protects the earth from deadly radiation.
So why the knock on ozone?
Without it Mother Earth would be destroyed!! Here’s the problem! Many air purifier manufacturer’s, for the most part, are using technology that produces levels of ozone that may be harmful to the body. At levels above .05 or higher, it appears to effect the body in a way that is similar to free radical damage. Long term exposure to these higher levels may be linked, as we discussed earlier, to respiratory and other health concerns. Ozone and particles irritate and inflame the respiratory tract. This is according to Ellen Ceppetelli, RN, MS, director of nursing education at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H. and an American Lung Association board member. Ozone can cause a narrowing of airway passages as well as coughing, wheezing, sore throat, shortness of breath, chest tightness, eye irritation, headaches, and nausea.
According to the American lung association’s report State of the Air: 2006, more than 150 million Americans live in counties in which they are exposed to unhealthful levels of air pollution at least one day during the year. A study published March 15, 2006 in the American Journal of Respiratory, and Critical Care Medicine reported that when particle pollution in a city declines, death rates also drop. The study found that for each 1-microgram decrease in soot per cubic meter of air, death rates from cardiovascular disease by 3% extending the lives of 75,000 Americans every year. Ozone does exist in the atmosphere. Everyone has heard discussions of the problems with the ozone layer. The ozone layer in the atmosphere exists at a very large distance from the earth. We do not breathe this ozone. The atmospheric ozone shields us from some of the Sun's radiation. Ozone is also generated when an electrical spark passes an atmosphere containing oxygen. This happens when lightning strikes the earth or an electric motor runs (Yes your laser printer generates some ozone).
The key thing to remember is the concentrations that you breathe from lightning and electric motors are very low and of a short duration. There is some discussion about the danger of the ozone generated by laser printers but that is another topic. Many ozone generators use an electrical mechanism to generate Ozone gas. Newer technology utilizes ozone producing lamps, still others are a combination of ozone and UV. Ozone generators will clean the air. Bacteria in the air are neutralized. Ozone reacts with most airborne particles and the particles are attracted to floor and walls. The particles are not in the air for you to breathe but they do build up on your floors and walls. This phenomena only occurs, though, when the machine produces free electrons vs negative ions. People that claim that Ozone generators will reduce air borne pollutants are correct.
Most skeptics ignore the fact that it's the free electrons or needle point ionizers that are most likely to cause what is known as "black wall syndrome". The problem is the straight Ozone cleaners, without a catalyst, are dangerous. Ozone is not dangerous to humans and plants at very low concentrations. The study in Encyclopedia Britannica found that levels as low as 0.12 parts per million have a negative effect on human respiratory systems. This is considered by some to be a low level of ozone. This is actually a high level to humans and animals.
The latest nanotechnological catalysts will reduce ozone levels produced to very low levels .01-.02 ppm. This is directly over the machine. The ambient air records levels in ppb. This is only a foot or so from the machine. Recent media articles have indicated that at least some Ozone generators do generate dangerous ozone levels. You will read testimonials from Ozone cleaner users who say that the units have changed their lives, asthma suffers can breathe again etc. These are true. Initially the Ozone cleaners would remove all of the air born pollutants making it easier for asthma suffers to breathe. However, the continued exposure to ozone could affect them in a very negative way unless the ozone levels are controlled very carefully. Remember that very low levels of Ozone have been shown to be harmful to microscopic organisms only.
So low levels of ozone at the .04 ppm or less level is only harmful if you are bacteria, fungus, virus, or a mold spore. If you are using the newest hydro-photocatalytic nanotechnology, these little pests will also be oxidized. One of the most important points that many HEPA manufacturers and skeptics refuse to acknowledge is that when the hydrated catalysts cause the ozone to decompose the chemical reaction creates negative ions. Hydroxyl ions, hydro peroxides, ozonide ions, and super oxide ions are all produced during this reaction. The benefits of these ions are above and beyond those of ozone. Your body also has natural defenses against those ions that simple organisms, such as bacteria and mold, don't have. This new technology appears to be taking the future of air purification to the next level.
Dr. Jeff Bennert Ph.D., C.T.N.
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