- Lots of reasons filtration is not optimal.
> energy cost
> too noisy
> filtration replacement cost
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- Trade offs between performance and runtime.
- Can they improve on the concentration threshold approach for running the portable filter?
-Unlikely to be universal threshold due to sensor and environment variability.
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- Made some modeled data sets of source and removal rates.
- The threshold value changes based on the sources in each apartment.
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- Running the air cleaner continuously will always reduce concentration the most.
- BUT you get a relatively small benefit from improvement from running it only when exceeding threshold values. Run times can be down as low as 10-50% with most of the benefit.
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- An adaptive air cleaner run time threshold could operate 7% of the time and get 60% of the benefit of running it continuously. (Interesting).
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- How to improve indoor air cleaner 1- Keep it dry 2- Source control 3- Ventilation 4- Air cleaning
- Filtration (air cleaning) has the shortest history. Only 50-100 years use in buildings. 1/
- ASHRAE standard 52.2 for filtration is only 23 years old.
- Measured CO2 and PM2.5 decay in a classroom that was supposed to be operated at 6 air changes per hour with ventilation and filtration. But it was actually at ~2 air change per hour.
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- Why does filtration fail to meet goals?
- Issue #1. Air has to get to the filter. For central heating homes the recirculating rate can range from 2-8 when the fan is on. BUT the fan can often only 20% of the time, with HUGE variation on the run time.
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- Indoor dust can be resuspended by human activity. Dust can be use as a tracer to determine the presence/absence of RNA (i.e. SARS-COV2).
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- Deployed indoor air cleaners in homes/classroom where people who COVID positive.
- In home cleaners placed in isolation room, outside and in the main living area. After 1-2 weeks dust was removed from filters => extracted => qPCR analysis.
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- Cool mist humidifiers were often used in homes/isolation rooms which greater decrease the flow rates of the air cleaners.
- Isolation rooms in homes had higher copy numbers.
- SARS-COV2 was detected in 2/7 deployed filters in classrooms/lunchrooms.
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