How Artist's Air Works

ARTIST’S AIR quietly removes impurities from between you and your artwork, where harmful substances would otherwise collect and be inhaled. Clean air naturally replaces it, leaving you with healthier air to breathe. Most impurities created by artists are heavier than air and tend to drift downward or with air currents.

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ARTIST’S AIR is portable and can be quickly set up with the filter unit to either side of your workspace. This affordable system filters your studio air, rather than venting it outside. That saves you heating and cooling expenses and conserves energy resources.

 

 

 

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ARTIST’S AIR collection unit fits most studio easels. However, the collection unit can be used on a table, horizontally or vertically, for artists working in other media.

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THE FILTERS

ARTIST’S AIR is constructed of durable steel with a flat black powder-coat finish. It uses a five-phase filtering system. Air is pulled through it by a very quiet fan.

1a) A pre-filter in the easel collection box stops the largest particles such as dust and lint from clogging the other filters.

1b) A second prefilter in the filter canister stops more particles to protect the other filters.

2) The special Vocarb Carbon filter eliminates solvent vapors, gases, and odors. This filter in the 40-V model has 10 lbs. (4.5 kg) of Vocarb activated carbon that traps gases and odors that pass over it and continues working for many months before needing to be replaced. It will eliminate approximately 8 pints (4 liters) of solvent before it becomes less effective. The 50-V has 18 lbs. of VOC carbon.

3) Two anti-microbial filters kill airborne microbes that pass through them.

4) The true HEPA filter traps airborne particles. These filters can capture 99.97% of particles as small as 0.3 microns, including some bacteria and viruses.

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Activated carbon has been treated with oxygen to open up millions of tiny pores between the carbon atoms. There are so many of these that one pound of activated carbon has a working surface area of 60 to 150 acres.

Certain chemicals are attracted to activated carbon and bond to it. The millions of pores in the activated carbon provide an enormous surface area to trap these chemicals. In addition, our VOC activated carbon is specially treated to quickly trap volatile organic compounds, such as those released in artists' studios. VOC carbon is much more efficient, and traps those harmful compounds much quicker than regular activted carbon.

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• ARTIST’S AIR will collect and filter out most impurities as they are released from an average or small-sized painting. However, even under ideal conditions nothing collects and filters 100 percent of the impurities as they are created. The system will continue to collect and filter any vapors and dust that escape into the studio. It can handle a space of 1200-1500 square feet. We recommend that artists leave the fan on low when not working to continually clean their studio air.

• If more than one person is painting in a studio, each painter should have an
ARTIST’S AIR at their easel. The system is not designed to handle the impurities produced by more than one artist at a time.

• How much noise does ARTIST’S AIR make? There are three fan speeds. The highest produces about as much sound as a modern window fan, but without any high-pitch sound. For those interested in the decibel level, ARTIST’S AIR has a sound level of 35 decibels on low, 55 on medium, and 65 on high. For comparison, 30 decibels is the "equivalent of a whisper-quiet library," while a normal conversation is 60-70 decibels. Please visit http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/education/decibel/decibel.asp.