With Sanuvox you can improve your building's air quality and your bottom line

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. Remember that we are more than a website; if you want to talk to us, call on 0845 688 0112.

The Benefits of Pure Air

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

Oxidise odours  including -	Destroy biological contaminants, including -	Oxidise chemical contaminants including -	Destroy biohazards  including -
body odours food odours traffic smells damp external odours cigarette smoke Wash room smells	cold virus flu virus mould spores and many, many other viruses, bacteria and spores to numerous to mention	cleaning chemicals formaldehyde chemicals from furnishings ozone chemicals off-gassed from building materials and paints traffic fumes including benzene volatile organic compounds	MRSA C difficile Anthrax spores TB Legionella Dysentery bacilli
Benefits No smells - happy building occupants	Benefits Stops airborne infections travelling through ventilation system, therefore reduces staff infection rates and absenteeism	Benefits Less incidence of staff nausea related sickness therefore higher productivity	Benefits Stop serious airborne micro organism threats passing through the ventilation system. A vital component of building bio security, business continuity and infection control.

Yesterday's 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. 

The blunt reality is that the higher the efficiency of the filter system, the more it costs to install and operate; on an exponential scale.   Whether you measure it in Pascals, mm or inches water gauge, pressure means energy, means cost.   Change Mindset   The Traditional Questions What filtration efficiency is required in order to catch bugs including spores, viruses or bacteria? How many carbon filters are needed to prevent odours, and chemical contaminants?   The Smarter Questions How much UV energy is needed to destroy bugs including spores, viruses or bacteria? How much UV energy is needed to remove odours and chemicals?   In solving the same problem, the difference between the traditional and smarter answers is similar to the difference between a sledgehammer and nut cracker. With this approach we are not trying to catch everything in order to catch the target contaminants; instead we are targeting the biological and chemical contaminants and not wasting energy on everything else.

Today's 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;

	Installation is easy - it is mounted in the duct and not the air handling unit
	Power cost is low - similar to an equivalent size and number of florescent lamps
	Prolonged maintenance interval - lamps typically have a life of over 3 years
	Additional pressure load on system fan is negligible.
	Overall running cost (including power and replacement parts) is typically 4 -6 times lower

Why Sanuvox UV
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 It Work?
 

Yes, it works.

We could make all sorts of dodgy 99.999% efficiency claims, but most people with half a GCSE in sums would realise that such claims without clearly defined scientific context are entirely meaningless. Rest assured, we can specify Sanuvox technology using our bespoke engineering programs to provide the exact solution to your application. The degree to which it works 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.  

Information Via Questions
 

General   What makes indoor air polluted?   How does UV light help?   What does UV-C light do?   What does UV-V light do?   Where does UV fit with air filtration?   Can UV be used in smaller buildings like houses?   What are the two main types of Ultra Violet purifier?   What are the critical factors for high efficiency purification using UV?

Product Range What in-duct air purifier products do Sanuvox make?   What stand alone and ducted products do Sanuvox make?   What surface sterilisers do Sanuvox make? Is Sanuvox technology recognised and certified ? Sanuvox Design Features How is the Biowall induct solution installed   Why are Sanuvox UV lamps so good?   Why do Sanuvox systems use parabolic reflectors?   What is the point of Sanuvox using parallel lamp installation?   What about the system control?

How much saving for the bottom line?

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;
 

Airflow	10000	m3/hr	Find out how much filter pressure drop costs your company
Pressure drop of high efficiency filters	300	Pascals
Pressure drop on carbon filters	150	Pascals
Hours operation per year	5000	hrs
Cost of electricity	10	pence per kwh
Fan efficiency	60	%
Fan motor efficiency	90	%
Filter change out period	1	per year
Sanuvox Biowall lamp change out	1	per 17000 hrs

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
 

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Note

With the exception of some smaller and stand alone units we don't offer priced Sanuvox equipment on this site although most of the Sanuvox range are listed here.

If you have an application for a Sanuvox system, then please call us so that we can ensure that we fully understand the application and specify and quote for the most suitable Sanuvox unit.

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