Ionization Advantage
Helping create a cleaner environment
iWave® and NuShield® bring a new, advanced air cleaning technology to your home or office. This patented technology, called needlepoint bipolar ionization, uses carbon fiber brushes to clean the air in residential and commercial buildings with equal parts positive and negative ions. This advanced method of ionization has the ability to improve indoor air quality and reduce viruses and bacteria. Nu-Calgon Air Ionization Systems also helps reduce particles, smoke, odors and VOCs in the air. The devices are OEM approved and can be installed in any air conditioning or heating systems.
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How Nu-Calgon's bipolar ionization works
Nu-Calgon Air Ionization Systems are bipolar, meaning they use two emitters to create equal parts positive and negative ions. When these ions are introduced into the air stream, they reduce harmful viruses and bacteria, airborne particulate, VOCs, pollutants and airborne gases.
The iWave and NuShield ionization has a microbicidal impact on bacteria and viruses and effectively kills them both in the air and on surfaces. This same ionization will charge harmful airborne particulate causing these particles to clump together through agglomeration. These larger and heavier particles will quickly fall out of the air and be caught by your systems return filter.
iWave’s and NuShield’s technology generates the same ions that nature creates with lightning, waterfalls, ocean waves, etc. The difference between this technology and other forms of ionization is that iWave and NuShield do it without generating ozone or harmful byproducts.
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How is ionization different?
Competitive technologies such as Photo Catalytic Oxidation (PCO) technology use a reaction between UV light and a catalyst to generate hydroxyl radicals. This new compound created by PCO devices can react with other VOCs commonly found in homes and the result is the generation of unsafe levels of ultrafine particles and ozone in the breathing zone.
ASHRAE issued a position document in January 2015 on Filtration and Air Cleaning where they cautioned UV lamps used in many PCO devices can emit significant ozone – known to be harmful for human health. They also observed and reported on page 9 of the document “…potential of an incomplete oxidizing process, which produces by-products of reaction that can be more toxic or harmful than the original constituents (i.e. formaldehyde). The catalysts can be contaminated (poisoned) by airborne reagents and/or products of oxidation, which results in reduced or total efficiency failure of the process.” Lastly, the PCO approach requires the replacement of the UV cell every year or two. Bipolar ionization requires no replacement parts, and on the self-cleaning models, they are maintenance free for the life of the device.
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