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Ionization

About Negative Ions/
Air Ionizers

Research Studies and Facts

Negative ions have proven to be safe and effective in a variety of studies. They enhance the efficiency of air filters, and attack airborne particles and pollutants wherever they may be floating.

Negative Ion Studies
How Negative ions Purify the Airr


Studies Proving the Effectiveness of Negative Ions


U.S. Dept. of Agriculture

The U.S.D.A. discovered the following in recent studies conducted in a poultry house, which are notoriously polluted:

  • Reduced salmonella (bacteria) transmission between chicks by 98%.
  • Reduced airborne salmonella (bacteria) by 95%.
  • Reduced airborne dust & particles by 99% in 60 seconds.

(Summary of Study from USDA Website)

Journal of Hygiene
This scientific publication reports that negative ions cause dust particles to agglomerate and settle out of air. For this same reason, ionization can improve the efficiency of filters.

Good Housekeeping Magazine
In March of 1999, Good Housekeeping Magazine had its engineers test an ionizer by using a smoke test, and found that it cleared out the smoke in a tank.

Journal of Hygiene
Scientists showed that ionization reduced bacterial levels in burns and plastic surgery units by over 96% after a two week period, which results in much better and more rapid healing of patients.

Columbia University
Researchers found people with winter and chronic depression show that negative ion generators relieve depression as much as antidepressants. It was also determined that there are relatively no side effects.

European Respiratory Journal
A statistically significant decrease of carbon monoxide values was found with an ionizer activated. This was discovered by researchers at Brompton Hospital in London, and published in European Respiratory Journal.

Journal of Applied Microbiology
The use of negative ions was even found by scientists to reduce the presence of airborne viruses by about 40%. A study featured in the 1987 issue also showed the negative ions are free from any adverse side effects.

St. James University Hospital
Researchers have found that hospital-acquired infections among patients in the Intensive Care Unit were dramatically reduced when ionizers were introduced - and have remained so since. The ionizers were found to successfully remove bacteria from air, reducing the transmission of infection.

Science
A 1976 study featured in this publication provided evidence that negative ions can have a biologically lethal effect on airborne microorganisms.

Journal of Hygiene
A 1979 study found that using negative ionization in the air protected chickens from airborne infection of the deadly Newcastle Disease Virus.

Journal of Food Protection
A 2001 study found that airborne negative ionization was highly effective at destroying airborne and surface salmonella.

University of Medicine and Pharmacy (Romania)
A test on male rats showed that just moderate levels of negative ions increased the resistance of the rats, reducing or eliminating the effect of some chemicals.
(Summary of Study)

Effect of Negative Ions on Drivers
A study by Toyota Central R & D Labs, Inc. found that negative ions can improve fatigue and cognition of drivers. (Copy of Study - PDF File)


How Negative Ions Purify the Air

How negative ion generator/air ionizer purifies the air

Virtually all particles in the air have a positive charge, while negative ions have a negative charge. In which case, negative ions and particles magnetically attract to one another. When there is a high enough concentration of negative ions in the air, they will attract to floating particles in large numbers. This causes the particle to become too heavy to remain airborne. As a result, the particle will fall out of the air, preventing it from being inhaled into the respiratory tract where it can trigger breathing and health problems.

The ionized particle will then be collected by normal cleaning activities, such as vacuuming or dusting. If the particle happens to be kicked back up into the air again, it will be ionized, and quickly settled out of the air once again.

In nature, negative ions are generated by processes such as sunlight, lightening, waves from the ocean, and from waterfalls. "Concrete Jungles" minimize the natural production of negative ions by disrupting the delicate electrical balance between the atmosphere and the earth.




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Overview Topics



Is There a Problem?

A. Is There a Problem?

An introduction to indoor air quality issues.
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What Don't We Know

B. What Don't We Know?
 -- KWIK FACTS. 

The problem is worse than we
realize.

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Need to Know

C. What Do We Need to Know?

Sorting out the info and charting a course to follow.


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What Are We Breathing?

D. What are We Breathing?

Unwelcome guests we receive every time we breathe.

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Particulates

1. Particulates.

Airborne pieces of a lot of stuff we should not be breathing.

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Fields of Potential Allergens

2. Allergens.

The body’s “hit list” of alien invaders.

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Pathogens

3. Pathogens. 


The bacteria, viruses, and germs which reproduce in the human body and try to stage a takeover.

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One of kazillions of Odor Sources in a home or building

4. Odors.


Things have odors for a reason,
but why?
Can the problem be corrected rather than merely masked or covered up?

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VOC's on Demand

5. Chemicals/Smoke/VOC's.
 
Are we possibly drowning in a toxic soup?

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Mold

6. Mold.

Is what we see dangerous?
And is what we don't see
perhaps more dangerous than what we do see?  


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Which Technology?

E. Which Technology Works the Best?

Are the technologies pretty much equal, or is their a large disparity among them?

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Passive Technology

1. Passive Technology.

The pollution finds the solution.
(Or so we hope!)


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Active Technology

2. Active Technology.

The solution finds the pollution -
even where it is hiding!


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ions

a. Stage One --
Dual Ionization (Particulate Removal)


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Quad Oxidizing Plasma Generator
b. Stage Two -- Quad Oxidizing Plasmas

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Radical Hydroxyls

c. Stage Three -- Advanced Oxidation

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RCI Technology
d. Combo Effect -- The Whole is Greater Than the Sum of its Parts.

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Apples and Oranges

3. Major Differences.

Things that are not the same
are not equal.


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Out of this world

a. Literally out of this world.

The technology which produces
"the purest air on the planet"
actually comes from
out of this world.

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Overall air purity

b. Overall Air Purity.

By what standard do you certify the actual purity of air?

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Lab tech

c. Too Clean to Test for Purity?


"Without dirt in the air,
we cannot tell you
how pure the air is."
Does that strike anybody as odd?

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Where's the dirt?
d. Where's the Dirt?

(Where is Clara Peller
when you need her?)

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What to do?

e. What to do? 


Anybody can see that it’s clean except the career bureaucrats.


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Where are the germs?

f. Where are the Germs?

Hint: One place they are not is
"Blowin' in the Wind".


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Who gets to clean the conventional filter?

g. Filtration rates vs. Kill rates.

In the war against pathogens,
would you like your germs
captured and contained
or killed "graveyard dead"?

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Odor abatement/removal

h. Odor Abatement/Removal.

The same thing that RCITM
does to particulates and germs it does also to smoke, dust, and sources of odors.


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What must be considered?

F. What IAQ issues must be considered and addressed?

Head to head comparison of the technologies - very revealing.

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Medical considerations

G. Are there medical considerations?

Obligatory disclaimers and the practical realities of what happens when a sick body can actually catch its breath.

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Legal considerations

H. Are there legal and other considerations?

What happens if we just ignore the problem or fail to investigate it fully?

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When is timing an issue?

I. When is Timing an Issue?

If the mold or other air quality problem doesn't seem to be spreading or getting any worse, so we really have to pay it any attention?


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