IQAir HealthPro Plus, User Manual

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Introduction: Air Cleaners and Indoor Air Quality .
Improving Indoor Air Quality
Air cleaning can play an important role when it comes to improving indoor air quality. However, it
should be noted that air cleaning should be used in conjunction with pollution source control and
ventilation, wherever possible.
Strategy to improve indoor air quality
To tackle any indoor air quality problem, keep the following three-step strategy in mind:
1. Eliminate or reduce the air pollution source as much as possible. Source control is by far the
most effective way to improve indoor air quality, since it sets out to deal with air pollution at
the point of origin.
2. Ensure that sufficient fresh air is entering the room from outside. Air cleaners are not a sub-
stitution for sufficient ventilation.They are not able to reverse the conversion of oxygen (0
2
)
into carbon dioxide (CO
2
), caused by breathing and combustion processes.
3. Use an air cleaning method which suits your requirements.
Choosing the proper air cleaner for your requirements
1. Make sure the air cleaning technology employed by the air cleaner is suitable to filter the
particular air pollutants which are of concern to you in your indoor environment.
2. Ensure the air cleaner can clean enough air to cope with your room size.The actual hourly
air delivery of your air cleaner should be at least double the air volume of your room.
If the rate at which pollutants enter the room air is high or the indoor air quality require-
ments are stringent, the hourly air delivery needs to exceed the room volume several times.
To achieve that level of air turnover, it may be necessary to employ more than one air cleaner.
Disclaimer about Air Cleaning Results
Although IQAir cleaners may be advertised and sold to be suitable for the use in specific indoor
environments and to deal with specific indoor air quality problems, the manufacturer and distri-
butors make no claim as to the specific air cleaning results that are achieved under the user’s
individual operating conditions. The air quality improvements that can be realized with this air
cleaner (as with any air cleaner) in indoor environments depend to a significant degree on
circumstantial factors which are out of control of the manufacturer or distributors. Important
factors which will influence the air quality improvements that can be achieved in an indoor
environment with an air cleaner include:
- the type of air pollutants present,
- the intensity of the pollutant source(s),
- the pollutant concentration,
- the size of the indoor environment (room size),
- the operating speed of the unit,
- the number of air cleaners placed in the indoor environment, and
- the saturation state of the filters in the air cleaner.
Consult a qualified specialist to determine an effective and comprehensive indoor air quality
strategy which should focus on source control.