Indoor Air Quality Makes Your Home Healthy
The Environmental Protection Agency lists Indoor Air Quality among the top 5 risks to human health, probably because indoor air can be 2-5 times more polluted than outdoor air. While homeowners can’t see the majority of indoor air contaminants, every cubic foot of air breathed carries a mixture of millions of microscopic particles such as pollen, mold spores and dust mite debris. In small concentrations, these particles and gasses may cause discomfort in the home. These can cause sickness because these are among the most troublesome triggers of such ailments as asthma and allergies.
Make Yours A Healthy Home
Indoor Air Quality add-ons for your air conditioning and heating system can make your home a dramatically healthier place for you and your family by filtering the air, controlling humidity, and cycling fresh outdoor air into the home. These add-ons for your air conditioning can help reduce allergies, prevent asthma, and even boost productivity.
Indoor Air Quality Can Be Maintained By Your HVAC In Four Ways:
· Reduction - Filter or neutralize particulates found in indoor air. Air cleaners installed just ahead of the heating and cooling equipment remove a portion of airborne pollutants each time air is pulled into the return air ducts.
· Dilution - replaces a portion of the indoor air with fresh outdoor air. This process occurs naturally in all homes, but at different rates depending on the structure's tightness. Opening windows is one way to increase the pace of air exchange, although it’s an energy-wasting solution. Energy-efficient ERV and HRV ventilation systems exchange indoor air for outdoor air while recovering most of the energy used to heating or cool the air being exhausted. Controlling fresh air entering the home allows it to be conditioned by an efficient air cleaner, dehumidifier and UV Treatment system prior to passing through the home’s furnace or air conditioner.
· Moisture Control - Proper humidification levels are important in both hot and cold environments. This is needed to control relative humidity levels in the home, minimizing unhealthy airborne pollutants. Too little humidity leaves the body vulnerable to infections, and can cause damage to the home’s wood furnishings. Inversely, too much humidity creates ideal breeding grounds for mold, mildew, and dust mites.
· Source Control - Eliminate air pollutants before they enter the home. By not allowing people to smoke or have pets in the home, homeowners practice source control . Installing Ultra-Violet Treatment Systems help stop the problem before they start. By sterilizing pathogens with UV Treatment Systems, homeowners deter such harmful contaminants as mold, mildew, bacteria and viruses from forming.
Air conditioning system produces and distributes cool air throughout a building or house for the purposes of temperature control. Air conditioning system runs off of an electric motor attached to a compressor, which is a mechanical device that helps turn refrigerant chemicals (such as Freon) into a cool gas. A fan is also attached to the electric motor next to the compressor. The fan sucks in warm air from the outside, which is funneled into the compressor via tube near the air intake area. The compressor contains a separate compartment that houses the refrigerant; as the compressor fills with warm air, evaporates the refrigerant into a cool gas, which cools the warm air. Air conditioning unit also has a condenser, which is located near the fan. One end of an exit tube must be attached to the compressor with the other end attached at the rear of the fan. The exit tube propels the cooled air from the compressor to the fan, which blows it into the condenser. The condenser compresses the cool gas, which is piped into the house via a coolant line. The cool gas enters an evaporator unit, which evaporates the gas into cool air. The cool air is then blown into the house through a blower, which also sucks in air to improve circulation. The air passes through a filter, which removes debris, and is then blown out of the air conditioning unit by the fan.
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