Concern over energy sources as well as climate change has driven home builders to design energy efficient homes. This drive has a practical benefit of providing significant cost savings for millions of families. They can however, also have an unintended negative effect in that they also have a tendency to seal in dust, dirt, pollen, and perhaps worst of all various molds.

A high efficiency particulate air or HEPA filter is a type of high-efficiency air filter can remove up to 99.97% of pollutants ranging down to 0.3 microns. These pollutants can range from dust, pollen, tobacco smoke, mold, allergens and chemicals originating from household paint, furnishings and disinfectant cleaners.

Bionaire air purifiers effectively remove airborne irritants which can cause serious distress to allergy or asthma suffers.   Bionaire® has developed technology to find a balance between air-tight construction often created from the drive towards energy efficient homes and the need for clean indoor air. It seeks to accomplish this task with ingenuous attractive designs.  Bionaire purifiers utilize a purpose-designed chassis that maximizes airflow but achieves a high level of filtration yet retains the benefit of negligible noise.

Their energy-efficient models, remove odors and common airborne pollutants by drawing air through a filtration system. Reducing airborne allergens and irritants such as pollen, mold, dust, pet dander and tobacco smoke is the goal.

Bionaire® models can purify air offer from   99% to up to 99.97% particle filtration. Once the air finishes its pass through the filtration system, it is inaudibly processed back out into the room by its three speed fan.  Just to give you an understanding of the particle size the following descriptions give a sense of what purifiers can trap. The diameter of human hair and 100 microns.

The diameter of heavy dust, spores and pollen are 10 microns. Skin flakes, molds, pollen, average dust, pet dander can range from 5-10 microns.  Light dust and dust mite can range 1-5 microns. Tobacco smoke and metallic fumes can range from 0.3 to 1 micron.