Highland, New York, U.S.A.-based HVAC product developer Air Cleaning Blowers LLC has seen its a series of blower technologies assist with processors’ ventilation during the COVID-19 crisis.
The company’s Air-Cleaning Blowers (ACBs) are capable of ventilating, pressurizing, and cleaning particles, “from even exceedingly dusty air,” without using a filter element, which can often clog and requires consistent replacement.
“ACBs help reduce the costs and complications of providing ventilation in industrial, commercial, and residential buildings—even individual apartments or rooms. Their state-of-the-art technologies make them simpler to size and use than systems with ordinary air filters and air purifiers because they have no filter elements to clog. Without clogging, ACBs provide constant and predictable airflow, air pressure, air quality, and energy consumption,” the firm said in a press release.
The ACBs were originally developed for harsh industrial and military conditions, Air Cleaning Blowers said, and are now installed in a wider array of operations including a Mitsubishi food-manufacturing plant. The National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) also utilizes the technologies in its mission to develop systems to produce clean air for coal miners while underground.
“As ACBs pull the ambient air through their housings, they use the particles' own momentums to separate them from the clean air in a multi-patented, novel way. They then eject the debris back into the atmosphere from where it came, usually outdoors. They remove large or small quantities of sand, dust, and other particles, big and small - even mist and rain,” the company said.
The firm has been working with NIOSH regarding pandemic protocols as well, developing “canopies to protect people in close contact with the public or their fellow workers such as store cashiers, meat packers, and others on production lines, lecturers in auditoriums, and people standing in lines,” it said.
According to Air Cleaning Blowers CEO Edward Roston, the blowers cut down on the spread of pathogens.
"What we have developed here at Air Cleaning Blowers is a real innovative technology that can seriously help slow down the spread of pathogens and protect the health of many people," Roston said.
The firm offers ACBs for applications with airflows from 50 to 3,500 CFM. The devices can also work as “prefilters for specialized downstream filters such as HEPA, activated carbon, and the media in swamp coolers,” the company said.
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