Personal air purifiers are designed for small offices or individual living spaces in a home, where they are ideal for cleaning the air in areas as small as 5m² and up to 130m².

Usually a free or floor-standing unit, these portable units can be set up by the user by moving to the required location and simply plugging them in, making them a very convenient solution for certain needs.

Additionally, a personal air purifier will often have a HEPA filter and carbon filter, but will not typically offer the reporting and monitoring of a commercial air purifier.

Many personal air purifiers have a CADR (Clean Air Delivery Rate) rating, a performance metric that tells you the volume of air that the model of air purifier can handle. This can help you identify the right size and spec of air purifier for cleaning the air in any given space.

Used in the spaces they are designed for, with the filters changed as needed, personal air purifiers do exactly what’s required of them by cleaning the air in the room they’re in.

Personal air purifiers are usually unsuitable for commercial environments, however, because they are not designed to clean the larger volumes of air in open plan offices and similar size spaces.

Operating as stand-alone units, personal air purifiers cannot be networked, and cannot provide the level of air quality reporting that is invaluable in a corporate or public work environment.

Your business will benefit by tackling indoor air pollution.

By creating a healthier workspace, and an environment that supports physical and mental wellbeing, you and everyone around you will benefit from better health and the spread of fewer viral illnesses, and from productive working days and a more enjoyable working environment.

Good air quality is also critical to the quality and length of our lives. CBI Economics analysis has found that almost 17,000 premature deaths could be prevented in the UK alone each year through better quality air.

The CBI also calculates that the UK could gain almost 40,000 productive years, and an estimated £1 billion economic gain in the first year of improved air quality.

Because commercial and public buildings usually include a combination of environments, from kitchens and washrooms to waiting rooms and open plan offices, a good commercial air purification system will be planned and installed to provide the right type and quantity of air cleaning in each space.

Each air purifier needs to be the appropriate size and capacity for the room it is in, and able to deliver the recommended number of air changes per hour (ACH) (Link) for the space. For example, in a commercial kitchen setting this could be up to 18 air changes per hour, and in an open plan office at least four air changes per hour. This bespoke approach can also help minimise energy costs by ensuring that air purifiers are only operating as often as needed for recommended air quality in each space.

If you look after a large working environment, you can create an intelligent, scalable network of air purification units around the building that can work alongside your HVAC system. This makes commercial air purification a practical, cost-effective way to refresh your indoor air, meet health and safety regulations, while maximising wellbeing and productivity in your workplace.

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