Ionic Breeze Air Purifiers
Ionic Breeze are a popular, heavily advertised make of air purifier. Does one fact (the advertising) explain why they are so popular? It may be so. There has been a lot of research into whether these units can dispense with particles found in air of not.
One of the ways in which more conventional air purifiers (or cleaners) work is by moving air over a filter and relying on the filter to remove the allergens found in the air. There can be bo doubt that such machines (particularly those relying on Hepa technology) are very efficient at what they work, and yes, they do work. They rely on moving air several times an hour through the machine and through the filter. And this is where the questions are raised over machines such as Ionic Breeze.
Ionic Breeze does not move a substantial amount of air, and relies on plates within the machine to remove allergens using charged ions. There is no argument that this technique works to a certain extent, but are they as efficient at their job as the equivalent Hepa cleaners? The consensus is that no they are not. It makes some sense that in order to clean a lot of air, a large volume of air has to be affected. At the time of writing, the Ionic Breeze had no fan and consequently struggles to move any volume of air. It cannot work as efficiently as more conventional filtered cleaners.
But do they win in other departments? For example, how efficient is an Ionic Breeze as an odour eating air purifier?
