{"id":15538,"date":"2013-04-17T12:05:41","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T18:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145705.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=15538"},"modified":"2013-04-17T12:05:41","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T18:05:41","slug":"airocide-nasa-home-air-purifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/airocide-nasa-home-air-purifier\/","title":{"rendered":"Airocide: NASA's Answer to the Home Air Purifier"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ve gotten a number of pitches to profile\/review air purifiers<\/a> in recent years. Generally, I’ve turned them down. While I have no problem with cleaner indoor air – who does? – I know an awful lot of products on the market don’t deliver like they claim<\/a>. That was the mindset I had when a PR friend approached me with the Airocide<\/a>; just a little digging, though, showed me that this wasn’t the average product in this niche.<\/p>\n

Why’s that? Well, in one word (or acronym), NASA. That’s right, the agency that contracted the research and development for everything from solar panels<\/a> to microwave ovens to Tang also needed a way to protect space station astronauts from polluted indoor air: specifically, ethylene gas produced by plants for accelerating the ripening of fruit. \u00a0The technology that differentiates the Airocide from conventional air purifiers was the result of this research: the technology’s ability to remove ethylene particles was so impressive that the grocery and fresh flower industries were the next customers. Further research showed that Airocide’s filterless method of destroying particles with chemical reactions (that produce no harmful emissions) worked with volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and even common allergens.<\/p>\n

So, how’s it work? I’ll let the folks from Airocide take that one:<\/p>\n