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Medical Grade Air Filters

Medical Grade Air Filters

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Quality air filtration products for hospitals and pharmaceuticals isn’t just something that’s nice to have, it’s absolutely necessary. Medical grade air filters are essential to the health and safety of the patients and workers in the medical facility. Without proper filtration, airborne pathogens can negatively affect healthcare professionals, patients, workers, products, and more. To reduce contamination, a proper air filtration system with medical grade filters needs to be put in place.

HEPA Filtration Products

HEPA filters are high efficiency particulate air filters that filter out very small particles at more than 99% efficiency rate. They are commonly used in clean room environments, hospitals, pharmaceuticals, laboratories, and other critical applications. Choosing the highest HEPA filtration for your operating rooms is a priority in catching airborne pathogens that are circling inside the surgical rooms.

High air quality is also essential in the production of medication. It is vital that the air is free of any particulates that may cause contamination. Although air quality is important in all rooms, it’s important to have optimal indoor air quality where the packaging of medication takes place.

UV Lighting

The advent of COVID has made it essential that your building have exceptional air quality. Having quality air filtration products is important, however, utilizing a UV-C lighting system can help increase your indoor air quality even more. If you need more information about UV lighting, AFC delivers effective, high-quality air filtration and combines it with the killing and sanitizing power of UV lighting. This helps to deliver the cleanest and healthiest air quality available today.

Higher MERV Ratings

Choosing air filters with higher MERV ratings, such as MERV 16 pleated filters or MERV 16 vbank filters or box filters will help increase your indoor air quality as well. However, increasing MERV ratings may cause some air machines to work harder. Thus, decreasing efficiency. So, it’s important to know what your machine can handle.

Professional Installation of Medical Grade Air Filters

Increasing indoor air quality for medical facilities is very critical. It’s important to have professionals install medical grade air filters properly. Advanced Filtration Concepts have been in the air filtration industry for over 25 years. They have the knowledge and expertise to provide you with expert solutions and leading filtration products and services.

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How To Keep Indoor Air Quality Healthy During Wildfires

How To Keep Indoor Air Quality Healthy

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During the upcoming wild fire season, it’s important to take the necessary precautions to keep your indoor space healthy. Fire smoke can enter your building, negatively affecting your indoor air quality. This results in health issues for the people inside. When outdoor air becomes unhealthy to breathe, it’s important to insure that the indoor air quality is free of health damaging particulate matter.

Wildfire Affects Air Quality

It’s well known that wildfire smoke has negative effects on your health. These fires burn materials that cause particles and gases to contaminate the air we breathe. These particulates can enter our body and cause major health concerns, both long-term and short-term. When these particles enter your building, it drastically lowers your indoor air quality, however, there are steps you can take to help decrease the pollution to your air inside, keeping your indoor air quality healthy.

How Outdoor Air Enters Your Building

With the wildfire season approaching, it’s important to know where the particles enter your building. Common entrances for particulates are through natural ventilation, mechanical ventilation, and air leakage.

  • Natural Ventilation
    • This entrance introduces lower quality outside air into the building through windows and doors.
  • Mechanical Ventilation
    • This is common when outside air is introduced through HVAC systems incorporating fresh air into the building. This setup became more common during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is because outside air helps dilute the contaminated indoor air. However, during a wildfire, you do not want outside air inside your building because of the health damaging particulates.
    • Also, outside air can enter your facility through vent fans, etc.
  • Air Leakage
    • This is where contaminated air/particulates enter your building through window cracks and door cracks or any small openings.

By knowing how polluted air can enter your building, you can take the necessary actions to help remediate these issues.

How To Increase Indoor Air Quality

Be sure to keep windows and doors closed at all times to keep wildfire smoke and polluted air out of your building. Upgrading your air filters and using air purifiers can help increase the indoor air quality. Activated carbon air filters can help reduce odors cause from smoke and help make your air feel cleaner. As mentioned in a previous post, wildfire smoke can affect gas turbines and power plants. If you have an air handler that needs carbon filtration products, we offer activated carbon vbank filters, activated carbon vbank socks and cubes, and activated carbon air filtration rolls and media. If you require a custom solution, please don’t hesitate to contact us. Advanced Filtration Concepts offers HVAC services that help you achieve the best in clean air.

Airthinx Indoor Air Quality Monitor

If you’re looking for a tool to measure indoor air quality, take a peak at the airthinx indoor air quality monitor. This tool provides real time data on IAQ. It measures the following:

  • Particulates
  • VOC
  • CO2
  • CH2O
  • Air Pressure
  • Humidity

It gives you real time measurements so you can take action to increase the health of your building. Healthy indoor air quality is important, not just during wildfires, but at all times.

Conclusion

Wildfires are terrible and we try our best to prevent them, but sometimes, they just happen. They cause destruction to anything in it’s path, as well as, contaminate the air for miles and miles around it. Using quality air filtration products and taking steps to seal off ventilation and leakages can help keep your indoor air quality healthy. If you have any questions on how to better equip your building with the necessary filtration products, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

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HEPA Air Filters for Pharmaceuticals

Pharmaceutical Air Filtration Products

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Laboratories, clean rooms, and manufacturing for pharmaceuticals all have one thing in common, they require clean air. These are areas where unfiltered particles floating in the air can be detrimental to research and manufacturing. One contaminant can ruin the manufacturing process of life saving medicine or corrupt a vital research project. It is imperative to assure that there are no particles floating in the air that can cause contamination. These areas must be pure. Engineered Filtration Systems manufactures HEPA filters that can help you keep all test areas and manufacturing processes pure and free of contaminants floating in the air. Our high efficiency air filters for pharmaceuticals keep energy costs down while keeping indoor air quality up.

HEPA Air Filters

HEPA filters are used in places that require high efficiency particulate air filtration. Our HVP HEPAs have up to a 99.99% filtration efficiency at 0.3 microns. The Vbank style of the HVP HEPA filter results in a low pressure drop and helps increase energy conservation compared to traditional style HEPA filters. Typical applications for the EFS HV HEPA include clean room environments, hospitals, data centers, semiconductor and electronics manufacturers, medical and pharmaceutical facilities, laboratories and precise testing facilities, and other critical applications.

Air Filters For Pharmaceuticals

High air quality is essential for the production of medication. It is vital that the air is free of any particulates that can contaminate the production process. It is critical to keep the manufacturing production line free and clear of anything that can get into the packaging that can spread to the end user or have a negative effect on the medication. These are critical areas the require the best in air filtration.

Conclusion

Air quality is important in all rooms and it is critical to have optimal indoor air quality where the packaging of medicine takes place. We are dedicated to providing the best in clean air by offering quality air filtration products. If you’re looking for commercial air filtration services, Advanced Filtration Concepts are experts in the commercial and industrial HVAC industry. If you have any questions or would like to learn more about how we can help, please do not hesitate to contact us.

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Moisture Tolerant Pre Filter

Moisture Tolerant Pre Filter

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When it comes to air filters, location plays a major role in determining what type of filtration products are needed. It determines whether or not you should invest in pre-filters. It also determines what type of efficiency your filters need to have. For example, when you are in a high moisture environment, it is important to have a pre-filter that is moisture tolerant or water coalescing.

What Is A Coalescing Air Filter?

Coalescing Air Filters are specifically designed to remove water droplets and other liquid from the system’s air flow. Wet and high-moisture environments can be detrimental to your air filters. So, by adding a coalescer pre-filter, you increase the efficiency and durability of your final filter. This, in turn, decreases cost and downtime.

Why Use Moisture Tolerant Pre Filters?

A wet filter will reduce air flow and affect the efficiency of your air filtration system because water will block up your filters and not allow air to pass through. Also, this will drive up costs and increase downtime. Using a pre-filter will block water droplets from entering your air flow and keep your final air filters running efficiently. It will also filter out larger particles, allowing your final filters to filter out the smaller particles.

EFS Plastic Frame Pre Filter

At Engineered Filtration Systems, we offer moisture tolerant pre-filters that are encased in a rigid, plastic frame. The filter can be used in air conditioning and air ventilation systems. It has an extremely low pressure drop with a high dust holding capacity. Also, the coalescer filter has a MERV 8 efficiency rating. Therefore, it makes it the perfect pre filter for wet and high dust conditions. Key Features Of MRM8 Pleated Filters:

  • Low Start Pressure Drop
  • Water Coalescing
  • High Dust Holding Capacity
  • Moisture Tolerant
  • All Plastic Frame
  • 12″x24″x4″
  • 24″x24″x4″
  • MERV 8 G4 Air Filter

Conclusion For Moisture Tolerant Pre Filter

When you are in a high moisture environment, it is crucial to add a moisture tolerant pre-filter for maximum air filter efficiency. These pre-filters will keep water from entering your air stream and reduce unwanted blockage in your final air filters. Also, having an all plastic frame on your air filter will keep your filter from water damage. At Engineered Filtration Systems, we manufacture the highest quality air filters at the lowest costs to you. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us. If you’re looking for delivery and installation, Advanced Filtration Concepts are experts in commercial and industrial air filtration.

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Shipping Delays For Commercial Air Filters

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Shipping delays for commercial air filters are increasing. Supply and demand for commercial air filters has changed quite drastically over the past year. Demand for air filters is high because of the focus on improving indoor air quality. COVID-19 and increasing workplace safety has increased awareness for HEPA filters and air filters with higher MERV ratings. However, supply of commercial air filters are being affected by the surplus of products being shipped. There is a shortage of drivers and shipping is backed up.

Longer Lead Times Because Of Shipping Delays

The increase of demand for air filters and the impact COVID-19 has taken on shipping has caused lead times for air filters to take a lot longer than expected. You may be experiencing delays for your next scheduled outage. The pandemic has brought on a shortage of drivers to deliver products. On top of that, cargo ships are floating in the water, waiting to dock and unload. There are also COVID restrictions at the port, slowing down the process of unloading the ships and loading the trucks. Because of this, lead times have been pushed back further for receiving your air filters. There is huge demand, but supply is taking longer to deliver.

Order Commercial Air Filter Stock For Change Outs

Because of the longer lead times, it may be beneficial to order stock for future change outs. This will help you stay on schedule and won’t cause you anymore delays or extra downtime that isn’t necessary. Although keeping filters in stock may take up some space, keeping filters in stock versus not having filters ship on time might be a good tradeoff to fight downtime. So, ordering stock for future change outs is a good way to be sure that you have filters ready to go. Companies like Advanced Filtration Concepts are large stocking distributors, but it’s important to check with them ahead of time. Signing up for turnkey services is another solution for you to not stress about downtime and worry about stock. AFC will take care of that for you.

Conclusion For Shipping Delays On Commercial Air Filters

We don’t know when the shipping issues will be resolved, but we do assume that it will be a problem throughout the holidays. More and more shopping is being done online, making it more difficult for shipping to “catch up.” It’s important to stay prepared and come up with a solution that works for you. If you have any questions about filtration or lead times or to place an order on commercial air filters, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

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EFS Prefilters for wildfire season

Wildfires Affect Gas Turbines

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Do wildfires affect your gas turbines? Well, let’s think about that for a second. There’s a reason why your inlets require gas turbine inlet air filters. Your equipment requires clean air. The particulates from wildfires can clog up your filters, causing your equipment to work harder. This requires more energy and will cost you more down the line. Particles from wildfires can also cause damage to your equipment so, it’s important to use quality filters. Wildfires happen. They are a part of nature and wildfires affect gas turbines. So what can you do to prepare for this? Let’s take a look…

Use Pre-Filters for Wildfire Pollution

Using pre-filters for your Gas Turbine Air Inlets can help protect your gas turbines against some of the particles caused by fires. It can help capture the larger ash particles before making it to your final filters. This can help your final filters from clogging up too fast. So, if you can eliminate the larger particles with pre-filters, which are lower in cost, why not take that beneficial step and protect your assets? Wildfires are invasive and cause a lot of damage, not just directly, but also with the pollution caused by burning material. It’s important to take the necessary steps against air pollution from wildfires.

GT Outer Wraps & Inner Wraps for Wildfires

Other pre-filtration solutions that are available are inner and outer filter wraps. The inner wraps are designed for LM6000 applications while the outer wraps work great for cartridge and canister filters. These pre-filter wraps are easy to install and can help protect your gt filters against air pollution cause by wildfires. Wildfires can impact your gas turbine air filters. Using inner filter wraps and outer filter wraps for wildfires are a good solution to filter out those larger particles and help keep your air filters working efficiently for longer. They help decrease downtime and future costs associated with having to replace final filters in an emergency situation. Advanced Filtration Concepts can also install filter socks for your vbank filters to help your filters last longer.

Replace Inlet Air Filters Regularly for Wildfires

Although pre-filters can prolong the life of final filters, they obviously don’t capture everything. Especially smaller particles. So, it’s important to replace your gt inlet air filters regularly. Always keep in mind that lead times may vary. Especially during natural disasters. So, it’s important to schedule your next filter outage in a timely manner and allow some room for delays, if there are any. Replacing your filters is crucial for the efficiency of your equipment.

Wildfires Affect Gas Turbines

Wildfires can negatively impact Gas Turbines. It can cause unwanted downtime, sooner filter replacements, increased costs, and decreased production. Filter socks, inner wraps, and outer wraps for gt air filters are a great solution to help combat air pollution caused by wildfires. Preparing your gas turbine air inlet and adding prefilters where possible is important. For any questions about inner filter wraps and outer filter wraps for wildfires, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

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Wildfire Season: 3 Ways To Improve Indoor Air Quality During Wildfires

Wildfire Season: 3 Ways To Improve Indoor Air Quality During Wildfires

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As we enter wildfire season, there are precautions that should be taken to help keep your air clean. Not only do wildfires destroy everything in their path, but their destruction can reach for miles and miles away. Air quality can be affected from the fires’ destruction. Thus, affecting your indoor air quality. Here, we discuss 3 ways to help improve your indoor air quality during wildfires.

Keep Contaminated Air From Coming In And Affecting Indoor Air Quality

Obviously, if you’re near any fires, you should evacuate or listen to what local enforcement recommends. But, if you’re a ways away from the fire, you should try to keep contaminated air from coming into your home. Although this may be an obvious first step, you should try to keep your windows and doors closed. Make sure the seals around your windows and doors are doing their job. We know fresh air is important, but it’s also important not to bring in contaminated air.

Replace Filters To Improve Indoor Air Quality During Wildfires

Replacing your filters is another important factor to help improve your indoor air quality. Replace your filters regularly and upgrade them with a higher MERV rating if you need to. However, using a filter with finer fibers may cause your system to use more energy. So, make sure you switch back to the filter rating recommended by your manufacturer after the wildfire season is over. Also, using an air purifier or air scrubber with an activated charcoal filter can help reduce odors and smells cause by wildfire smoke and help your home feel cleaner.

Don’t Create More Particles During Wildfires

Cooking, smoking, vacuuming, lighting candles, cleaning with chemicals, etc. These all create more particles that may contaminate your indoor air quality. This may be tough to not do, especially because cooking and cleaning is something most of us do daily. However, using gas, propane, and wood burning stoves can cause fine particles to contaminate your indoor air. Although, it may be hard to stop cooking, keeping frying or broiling to a minimum may help lower the contamination of your air.

Conclusion

Wildfires are terrible. They negatively affect the quality of our life. And even if we aren’t directly in the path of a fire, the contaminated air can affect areas around it for miles and miles. The devastation that wildfires cause are tragic and a major health concern. Improving indoor air quality during wildfires is important to our health. If you need help deciding what filters you may need or if you want to upgrade your filters, please, don’t hesitate to contact us.

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Traveling After The Pandemic

Traveling After The Pandemic

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Now that restrictions for travel are being lifted, people are wanting to put their fears aside and enjoy the outside world again. Traveling after the pandemic is on the rise. Bookings for hotels, AirBnB’s, and car rentals are filling up fast! But, is it really that safe to stay at some hotels? Even if they have taken steps to lower the risk of spreading Covid-19, have they taken into account mold and other pathogens? Make sure you look for signs that make your stay a little more covid safe. HVAC has never been more important and service records are something you should keep an eye out for.

If You’re A Hotel

If you’re a hotel, let your guests know that it is safe to stay with you. Have service records available showing the steps you’ve taken to stay sanitary. Having a indoor air quality monitor, like one from airthinx that AFC has available, may be a good choice to allow guests to understand that your air is clean. Servicing your HVAC systems should not be optional, especially if they’ve been shut down for a while. Replacing your filters often will help keep pathogens from floating around. Doing so along with coil cleaning and UV lighting can help take your indoor air quality a long way.

If You’re A Traveler

Covid 19 isn’t the only issue that can affect your health when traveling. Because of the shut down and limited occupancy, there may have been a lot of stagnant air causing dust and mold to develop. When staying in a room, check for service charts and look for an air quality monitor. If you feel like the air is musty, don’t be afraid to ask for another room! If you notice quite a bit of dust layering, ask for a room that has been cleaned. Better yet, maybe you can ask them to deep clean your room. You can ask about their cleaning policy ahead of time. Find out the steps they’ve taken to improve indoor air quality and the cleanliness of where you’re staying.

Traveling After The Pandemic

Although traveling again may be exciting, it can still be a health concern. We’re all ready to set our fears aside and visit the outside world once again, but with new warnings and health concerns arising, it’s important to proceed with caution and take the necessary steps to stay safe and healthy. The Resort at Pelican Hill received a UL certification. Could be a new standard for hotel health and safety? Would you feel more comfortable staying at a resort that has a UL certification for clean air? If you have any questions or interest in commercial air filters, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

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Gas Turbine Air Inlet Refurbishment

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It’s important to keep your gas turbine air inlet in tip top shape. It helps to prevent degradation of your filters and prevents further deterioration of your inlet. Investing in gas turbine air inlet refurbishment services increases the lifecycle of your inlet air intake. It will require less overall maintenance and increase the efficiencies of your cooling section.

Replacing Gas Turbine Inlet Air Filters

At Engineered Filtration Systems, we offer many solutions for gas turbine filter replacements. From pre-filters to final filters, as well as, evaporative media and drift eliminators. We are your go to filter company for Gas Turbine inlet air filters and gas turbine fluid filters. Having the correct filters in place is crucial for the efficiency of your gas turbine air inlet. Filters lose efficiency overtime and clogged filters can put a lot of strain on your machines. It’s important to replace your filters when needed to increase production.

Gas Turbine Air Inlet Refurbishment

Another step you can take to keep your GT air inlet running as efficient as possible is to look into refurbishment services. Advanced Filtration Concepts has a team that can offer full turnkey GT air inlet refurbishment services. They do a full removal of the pre-filter wall, all filters and other components. Then ice blast, recoat and re-install everything, including new filters. To learn about the whole process and everything they can offer, please contact AFC. From Air inlet to catalyst, the deep cleaning process can save you on costs and downtime.

Conclusion

Ongoing maintenance is important for any system. You need to have your machines working at all times and here’s no room for downtime. Keep your gas turbine air inlet clean and efficient by replacing your filters in a timely manner or when needed. Don’t let your GT inlets get to the point of needing to be replaced. For any questions, please contact us anytime.

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Clean work environment because of Commercial Air Filters by Engineered Filtration Systems

Commercial Air Filters

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Commercial Air Filters. There isn’t really a general standard on how often air filters should be replaced per year, especially because it depends on the environment it’s in. However, it is good practice to have air filters inspected every 30 days. To determine if your air filters should be replaced, you compare the results to your industry standard. Some commercial air filters can last 30 days while other filters can last up to a year or more. It depends on the quality and location.

Why Commercial Air Filters

Indoor air quality has been more important than ever and the coronavirus outbreak has raised more awareness about upgrading your HVAC filtration system. Indoor pollutants are usually higher indoors than it is outdoors because pollutants get contained inside the building. It is important to have a good HVAC system in place to help get rid of these pollutants. Contaminated air has a direct effect on the building’s inhabitants. It can disrupt workflow, health, and costs. A commercial building needs proper airflow and a good filtration system in place to increase indoor air quality, increase production, and lower overall costs.

What Type of Commercial Air Filters?

There are many different types of air filters. The type of filters you need depends on your end goal. It also depends on your environment. Obviously, hospitals require intricate setups. Some as far as requiring UV lighting systems in their air stream. But with the coronavirus pandemic, don’t we all need more intricate HVAC systems? Commercial air filters come in many shapes and sizes as well as density and filter ratings. Vbank Air Filters, Pocket Air Filters, Gas Phase Carbon Air Filters, HEPA Air Filters, and more are all types of Commercial Air Filters EFS offers. They range from MERV 8 to MERV 16 efficiency. The higher the MERV rating, the more particles it can filter. However, choosing the highest MERV filter isn’t always efficient. It depends on your standards and the HVAC system you have. For expert advice on the type of filters that will work best for you, contact Advanced Filtration Concepts.

Work Environment

Clean air in the work environment is important to increase productivity, decrease illnesses, increase production, and decrease costs. Working in an environment that “feels clean” well make the workplace happier to be in, thus increasing productivity. Also, it reduces the spread of illnesses like Covid-19 and other viruses. Engineered Filtration Systems manufactures quality commercial air filters for all your commercial air filtration needs.

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