HEPA Air Purifiers Info

In my researching of various HEPA air purifiers, it has come time to take a look at Honeywell HEPA Air Purifiers. At first glance, they’re not particularly remarkable. They generally occupy the low end of the price spectrum, and have the features that you would expect, nothing more, nothing less.

That’s when it struck me just how exceedingly normal Honeywell HEPA Air Purifiers are. Look closer and you’ll notice…nothing. There’s no patented Honeywell this, nor do they even try to compare to any other brand directly. In fact, Honeywell HEPA Air Purifiers, even when just looking at that product, feels like a sort of afterthought of the rest of the company.

Then I looked further into the company, and it was suddenly very easy to see why. To say that Honeywell makes more than HEPA filter air purifiers would be akin to saying “The Earth is slightly useful to use humans”. The company has produced thermostats, heaters, electric motors, computers, cluster bombs, land mines, missile guidance systems, and napalm, among many other things.  Within the realm of HEPA, you can get both a True HEPA Air Purifier, and a HEPA-Type device, depending on your needs.

However, there is one enormous blemish on the company record, and it becomes particularly ironic if you are considering a Honeywell HEPA air purifier. To quote Wikipedia: “The United States Environmental Protection Agency states that no corporation has been linked to a greater number of Superfund toxic waste sites than has Honeywell. Honeywell ranks 44th in a list of U.S. corporations most responsible for air pollution, releasing more than 4.25 million kg (9.4 million pounds) of toxins per year into the air.”

Er.  Wow.  So it seems that Honeywell is creating some of the air pollution that its HEPA air purifiers then clean.  There’s another way to look at that, though.  Honeywell doesn’t have a particularly high employee death rate (that I could find), so that means they must be REALLY GOOD at air purification, right?  Not exactly something you’d want to include if you wrote any HEPA air purifier reviews, but, hey, it’s information nonetheless.

Commercialism rules all, though, and all of this matters very little when a family needs something.  If you’re looking to pick up a HEPA air purifier that you can be reasonably sure will be relatively dependable, and will have filters and other parts available for it for the foreseeable future, then Honeywell probably makes the best HEPA air purifier for you.

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The Hunter air purifier is an awesome value because it has lots of cutting edge features that are generally only found in the more expensive HEPA air purifiers. As air purifiers are still a relatively new technology, the cutting edge tends to be leaps and bounds ahead of even last year’s model. It’s been proven that Hunter air purifiers get the job done. These air purifiers have been proven to filter out virtually all allergens down to 0.3 microns with its HEPA filter, which makes the Hunter air purifier the ideal candidate for allergy and asthma sufferers. They can also reduce some odors with their separate carbon pre-filter. They’re great for home office, bedroom, and den use. Any room up to 323 – 400 square feet can be filtered with this air purifier. The Hunter air purifier provides a convenient digital display with great filter change reminders to take the guesswork out of maintaining your air purifier, as well as 3 adjustable fan speeds. The display even tells you how many hours you have left on your current HEPA air filter.

The Hunter air purifier is also a great choice if you’re wanting a HEPA air purifier that is light enough to be moved from room to room. This purifier even has side grips that allow it to be moved from room to room with ease. This is yet another reason why this air purifier is a great idea for those with allergies. The Hunter air purifier is also known to be one of the quieter air purifiers on the market.

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What are Hepa Air Purifiers?  Obviously it’s a device that filters air, but what exactly does HEPA mean? HEPA stands for High Efficiency Particulate Arresting. These filters have been around for quite a while, though they’re only more recently seeing public use. Way back in the ’50’s, the United States government, or more specifically the Atomic Energy Commission had a need for something to remove the tiny radioactive particulates that are created in the process of creating atomic energy. Since that time, HEPA filter air purifiers have been using HEPA technology to clean the indoors in various situations, from beauty parlors to clean rooms. Allery and asthma doctors use HEPA air filters to help alleviate sufferers of allergies and asthma. But how does HEPA work, exactly?

To understand how HEPA air purifiers work, you have to have a good imagination, and at least a passable grip on physics.

Imagine particles floating through the air, all of different sizes. Sort of like how you can actually see dust particles when the sun bounces off them at the right angle. Now imagine a filter that doesn’t allow the larger particles through; only the tiniest. We’re talking particles so small that the human eye couldn’t hope to catch a glimpse of them. If a single sheet of this HEPA paper were placed in front of a fan that was constrained, such as in HEPA air purifiers, very little air would be able to pass through because of the tiny size of the holes. HEPA filter air purifiers made in such a way would need constant filter changes since the holes would be plugged quite rapidly. So, double the size of the sheed, and we’ll get twice the filter life and air flow. This only works to a degree, though, because you can only grow the sheet so large before it becomes completely impractical. Instead, HEPA air purifiers are built with these sheets folded back and forth on top of itself so that a very large surface area is presented to the airflow, and the HEPA air filteres are made far more efficient. This is very similar to how real-world HEPA filters are made in actual HEPA air purifiers. In some cases, there is as much as 40 square feet of filter material folded up in the HEPA section of a single filter. These sheets are constructed of either fiber, paper-like, or a polymer material, depending on the actual filter.

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