S & P Brokerage - January 2004 MediaGram

Filtering Out the Facts
Island Clean Air Filtration Systems

Plain and simple: industrial processes such as producing large format graphics give rise to VOCs (Volatile Organic Compunds), and airborne dust. Common solutions involve "environmental venting," which means directing the pollutants outdoors, and/or often insufficient workplace filtration.

To properly filter the air you and your employees breathe, you must match capacity, and filtration type with your shop's requirements.

If your manufacturing workplace has a volume of 18,000 cubic feet (30' x 30' x 20' high), an Island Clean Air Duster 2000 will draw that volume of air through its filters in just over six minutes.

To ensure that it is not simply cycling the air proximal to the unit, it directs the cleaned air forcefully upwards, and pulls denser, dirtier air from beneath. Air moved in this manner develops a circulating current.

Capturing gas particles is not an easy job.

Pollutants such as drying solvents range from 1/100th to 1/10,000th of a micron in size (This period is 50 microns across).

The simplest, and most effective manner to "capture" these particles is by attracting them to the surface of activated carbon. And the heavier the carbon filter (more material present for particles to pass over), the more particles we will capture per cycle.

Island Clean Air manufactures filtering systems with cleanable 1.0 micron HEPA (High Efficiency Particulate Arrestors - cleanable by vacuum, compressed air, or washable), and refillable activated carbon filters.

For more information on the full line of Island Clean Air Filtration Systems,
please click here.

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What is a VOC?

A volatile organic compound is a gas that is released as a consequence of a chemical process. These include gases released from adhesives, solvents (prevalent in outdoor-safe inks), cleaners, and some lubricants.....in short, many common industrial compounds.

According to the EPA, many industrial businesses have working area VOC concentrations ten (10X) times that of outdoors.

Key signs or symptoms associated with exposure to VOCs include conjunctival irritation, nose and throat discomfort, headache, allergic skin reaction, nausea, epistaxis, fatigue, and dizziness.

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