What is an Air Scrubber?

3/28/2019 (Permalink)

What is an Air Scrubber? This machine is used on many types of jobs, primarily mold remediation projects and water jobs where the use of fans can stir up dust and send particulate in the air.

An air scrubber is more appropriately referred to by professionals as an "air filtration device," or AFD. Simply put, it filters airborne particles out of the air, giving you cleaner air to breathe. The critical component of an air filtration device is a HEPA filter.

HEPA filters are made of a refined product with tiny holes that are too small for particulate to pass through, HEPA air filters were initially developed to remove radioactive particles from the air during the Manhattan Project in the 1940s. SERVPRO uses the DRIEAZ DefendAir HEPA 500 which has a 2 stage filtration systems. The 1^st stage utilizes a pre-filter that captures large particles, and then the HEPA filter captures 99.97% of smaller particles down to 0.3 microns.

Why use an air scrubber? The reason is simple, we want to remove airborne mold spores from the air you are consuming. AFDs have many other uses as well. For example, they can be used on deodorization projects. Particulate in your air can produce odors, trapping them with the HEPA-filtered AFD will remove them from the breathing environment and thereby remove the odor-producing elements from your environment.

How it works, the machine draws in air though the back side, pulls it through the HEPA filter, and the HEPA filter traps airborne particulate.

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