How to be more effective at fighting pollutants

COVID-19 have impact our live in so many ways that is unbelievable, today more than ever people are paying attention at air treatment in HVAC equipment, before COVID nobody was too concerned about the air filters MERV (Minimum Efficiency Reporting Value) grade and I’ve been surprised by the amount of customers asking to have the  higher MERV filters installed for facts about what filter to use and how it will impact the equipment performance has brought up a lot of discussion.

If we go way back to why it was at some point decided to incorporate an air filter as par of an HVAC system we will find that the main purpose was to protect the air conditioning coil from being plugged up as well as some moving parts like the electric motor from collecting dust. Over the years with the increase of allergies, diseases in conjunction with having tightest building envelop, we started paying attention to better air filtration to stop smaller pollutants like pollen, but not capable to do anything with some other ones like mold for the simple fact that mold will be more like found on the A/C coil and the A/C coil is located downstream from the air filter.

What to do?

As you may have already discovered the air filter by itself is not enough to fight pollutants like mold, virus, and bacteria. For a complete air treatment, a UV light must be installed downstream of the AC coil as a best location; another great solution will be to install a By-Polar Ionization system.

Bi-Polar Ionization systems are not as popular as Ultraviolet Lights, but they are an excellent solution for fighting odors, dust, pollen, etc. If you want to see how it works we invite you to check the following link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYUGSfqA4EM