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The Hidden Danger Of Air Quality in Indoor Firing Ranges

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Lead can damage the brain, blood, nerves, kidneys and reproductive organs.. Does The Gun Range Use Quality Air Filter?

Indoor gun ranges are popular with both professionals who use guns as a part of their job and hobbyists who just enjoy guns and shooting. They provide a safe place to practice, sheltered from unpredictable winds, extreme temperatures and all types of inclement weather. It is estimated there are over 10,000 indoor shooting ranges patronized by gun enthusiasts scattered throughout the United States.

What many patrons of gun ranges don’t realize though, is that there is a hidden danger present in these places where enthusiasts come to practice and evaluate equipment. Safety, of course, is a huge concern at all gun ranges. There are strict rules that must be followed by everyone in the building. Building architects employ special designs to minimize the chance of bullets ..

How to Choose the Right Commercial Air Filter

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When it comes to selecting a commercial air filter, or air filtration system, there are many variables that have to be considered. In general, the choice of which air filter can be made a bit easier by first defining the overall goal that you are trying to achieve which is usually one of two options. Is the purpose of the filter to protect the air circulation equipment, or is it to provide a better environment for the occupants of the building?

Different air filters in different systems serve — you guessed it — different purposes. Some filters are meant to keep internal parts of the HVAC system from becoming coated with dust or other particles, other filters are in place with the additional purpose of purifying the air to make the environment safer and healthier for building occupants. Using the wrong filters in the wrong place can have negative effects on an HVAC system’s efficiency. ..

Warning: Breathe At Your Own Risk

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Unfortunately, we’re all familiar with air pollution. It’s an inescapable part of modern life. There are cars and trucks spewing fumes throughout our cities, smokestacks giving birth to black clouds over industrial parks, and monstrous machines spraying unpronounceable chemicals all over the countryside. It doesn’t matter where you live, the air you breathe is full of particles that, in the end, are poisonous to your body.

There’s Something In The Air

The signs of air pollution are easy to see in our environment. You can’t miss the big black cloud hovering over a factory. Your eyes become irritated and your throat closes when a badly tuned diesel truck rolls by, leaving you to suck down the fumes of burned oil and fuel. You can see, smell, and even taste the pollution in the air. The signs and the danger are obvious.

The World Health Organization estimates that about 7 million people..

Reducing The Big Costs Of Big Data

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Camfil data center customers have reported annual energy savings in the six-figure range.

In the industrial age, companies built warehouses. They needed ever more space to store the results of their massive product manufacturing operations. In today’s information age, companies build data centers. The idea is basically the same, it’s just that the product and storage facility have evolved. Information is the product, and data centers are the warehouses where the product is stored.

Everything Is On The Internet

There is very little that hasn’t been pushed onto the Internet somehow. Unfathomable amounts of information and communication zip through wires and bounce between cellular towers and satellites, all to bring us the instant gratification that we’ve become so accustomed to. The network is vast, and its storage needs are mind-boggling.

Big Data Requires Big Storage

It is estimat..

Camfil Introduces the City M Indoor Air Purifier

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The company’s New City M Air Purifier maintains healthier indoor environments by removing a wide array of contaminants.

Stockholm, Sweden – July 1, 2016: Camfil, a world leader in air filtration and clean air solutions, recently announced the release of the Air Purifier City M Freestanding Indoor Air Purifier, a cutting-edge unit that has been designed to remove odors, dust, and many other harmful contaminants from the air.

“The Camfil City M comes equipped with particulate and molecular level filters that are designed to significantly improve indoor air quality (IAQ) in rooms or areas of up to 800 square feet,” said Kevin Wood, Camfil USA’s Vice President of Sales and Marketing .“The City M is designed to remove a broad array of particulates, contaminants and dust from the air, and can be used in hospitals, department stores, offices, schools, and even homes where a consistently high..

Air Filters a Hospital IAQ Concern

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Before you decide to use a hospital for a procedure, you can go online at various sites to compare local hospitals in terms of patient experiences, readmission rates and deaths, compilations and other items that can be part of the hospital experience. Now you can also review your local facilities through Consumers Reports, including their most recent article ‘How Your Hospital Can Make You Sick’. In my area I was surprised that two out of the three major hospitals were rated worse, or worse than average, at avoiding infections and not much better in terms of patients having to be readmitted for recurrence of a problem or from an HIA (hospital acquired infection).

A key factor in these low ratings could be the types of air filtration used in these facilities. Because of their low scores, some key questions that facilities managers and their infectious control staffs should be reviewing ..

Suicide: Another IAQ Concern

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A study published by the University of Utah suggests that increased pollution not only poses a health risk to those that breathe in the pollutants but also increases the suicide rate during periods of dirty air. Key statements from the report include “University of Utah researchers examined the records of more than 1,500 people who committed suicide in Salt Lake County, Utah, between Jan. 1, 2000, and Dec. 31, 2010, and found that the odds of committing suicide were 20 percent higher for individuals exposed to increased levels of nitrogen dioxide in the three days before they ended their lives. Similarly, individuals exposed to high concentrations of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in the three days before a suicide experienced 5 percent higher odds of suicide.” Additional studies from Korea and Taiwan have also found a correlation. Dr. Amanda Bakian, the study’s author, emphasized this..

Facts about Air Filtration and What to Be Aware Of

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“Heating, ventilating and air conditioning systems (HVAC) account for more than 40% of the total energy used in North America and 30% worldwide.” Source. Unfortunately, the prices for energy are predicted to only go up from here and with no sign of leveling out. Standard HVAC systems have filters that cause 60% of the energy cost, just to move the air through the system. This is because the air filters create a barrier to the airflow and cause the fans to have to work harder to push the air through the filter. The dirtier the filter because, the more resistance is increased, the more energy is increased. The more stages of filtration needed in a system, the more energy costs soar. Places that use multiple stages of filtration are in search of specific needs, such as semiconductors or pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities. Facilities like these or like hospitals require the use of HEPA..

The ASHRAE 52.2-2007 Standard in Air Filtration

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ASHRAE is the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers that was founded in 1894 that works to advance the arts and sciences of heating, ventilating, air-conditioning, and refrigerating. They are an international organization of 50,000 people. They have developed a standard for the world to know what filters are best.

“They publish standards that fit under one of the following three headings:

Method of Measurement of Test
Standard Design
Standard Practice

ASHRAE Standard 52.2-2007 – Method of Testing General Ventilation Air-Cleaning Devices for Removal Efficiency by Particle Size has been universally accepted and used to evaluate product alternatives. It is a consensus standard accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) developed and published to define minimum values or acceptable performance. The standard is also one that is unde..

Lead a Danger in More Ways Then One

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When guns are in the news it seems to create an increased interest by the general public in purchasing firearms. There is also a corresponding increase in interest in the use of indoor shooting ranges. There are thousands of shooting ranges in the United States with many new ones being added each year. In terms of facility-use, defined practices dictate ‘safety first’ as would be expected when using firearms but what about the air quality in these enclosed facilities? Lead can damage the brain, blood, nerves, kidneys and reproductive organs. This damage can cause serious disability: memory loss, extreme tiredness, emotional problems, even kidney failure, coma or death. How do these indoor shooting ranges protect the health of their employees and customers? Similarly range owners want to protect themselves from the wrath of U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Admini..