Guide - UV Instead Of Filters

UV Air Purification Improves Your Building's Air Quality And Lowers Cost

If a building's air quality and running costs are important to you, then please read on to find out how Sanuvox can produce the win-win for your company.

The Benefits of UV Air Purification

Things have moved on since the time when the only reason to have air filters in an air handling system was to protect the coils from dust build up. These days the benefits of pure, clean air for the building and its occupants are much better understood. Whilst medium grade bag or compact filters (say F6 or F7) can protect the coil and indeed any down stream purification system, a Sanuvox UV air purification system offers, without recourse to higher grade filters or carbon filters, the following advantages

Yesterday's Air Purification Solution

Traditionally the mantra has been that to catch biological contaminants and odours then you had to use high efficiency pleated filters and carbon filters. Fine, that is until you consider the cost. Also consider the difficulty of retrofitting these items into an existing air handling system where there are invariably restrictions of space and pressure capability on the existing fan. Even if the fan does not require changing to a higher pressure model, the existing one will require tweaking with a new pulley arrangement to make it faster to overcome the additional pressure. Whatever the challenges and costs associated with installing additional filter banks, there is one certainty - There will be a significant ramp up in the building's power consumption, which, in these lean times, is a hard result to justify. 

Today's UV Air Purification Solution

Accepting that your buildings ventilation system has at least F6 efficiency filters in the air handling unit, then the smart way to get the added benefits of biologically and chemically clean air (including odours) is to use a Sanuvox 'in-duct' ultraviolet air purification system. The big benefits of these systems compared to high efficiency filters and carbon filters is that;

Why Sanuvox UV Air Purification 

Sanuvox in-duct air purifiers use ultraviolet light at exactly the correct wave length, at a very high intensity and for a high exposure time to effectively disable all the biological contaminants on the air that pass it, including spores, bacteria and viruses.

There are plenty of companies that offer UV air purifiers. None of them offer air purification systems like Sanuvox, with an array of lamps supported in the middle of the process air stream and running parallel to the airflow. Only Sanuvox use lamps that are 'spliced' from two types of high quality quartz glass, so that they can use the benefits of both UV-V and  UV-C light. The lamps have exceptionally long life and can, if required, be fitted within a shatterproof outer sheath.  The electronic ballast and control system is very sophisticated, enabling monitoring of lamp life and lamp operation as well as integration into the building management system (BMS)

 Compared to other UV system providers, Sanuvox provides greater benefits to users because;
 

Does Sanuvox UV Air Purification Work? 

Yes, it works.

Although we could make all sorts of dubious 99.999% efficiency claims, most people realise that such claims without clearly defined scientific context are entirely meaningless. Our approach is different; we can specify Sanuvox technology using our bespoke engineering software programs to provide the exact solution to your application. The degree to which it works (i.e. its' efficiency) depends on its' challenge and exactly what we specify as the solution.   

These air purifiers have far wider applications than just purification of indoor air and indeed they are also used for air air sterilisation in food production facilities, defence establishments, vehicles and for industrial odour control. Sanuvox air purifiers are even used to protect occupants of buildings against bioterrorism attacks and spores such as anthrax and in that regard Sanuvox Biowall has been lab tested and proven by non other than the National Homeland Security Research Centre in US (sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency in the US). They reckon Sanuvox works; as do countless users across the globe.  
           

Sanuvox UV In Duct Air Purification - Cost Savings

The bigger the airflow and the higher the pressure drop of the high efficiency filters and carbon filters, then the greater the saving in running costs. In this small and simple example we compare a 10000 m3/hr air flow through high efficiency filters and carbon filters with treatment using a Sanuvox Biowall. Our assumptions are;
 

On this small example you save £2701.39 per year.

Or put it another way; for this example the running cost of Sanuvox Biowall is less than 1/6th of the filter solution, and that is without considering the labour costs of the more frequent filter changes.

Now What?

Unfortunately it is not possible to cut out lumps of air handling running cost by browsing this or any other website, but you can start the process by calling us and on 0845 688 0112, asking for Bill Anderson. Alternatively contact us by email