How Artist's Air Works

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.
	ARTIST’S AIR is portable and can be quickly set up 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.
ARTIST’S AIR’S 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.

WHY ARTIST’S AIR
Most studio artists use toxic materials. Many poisonous substances have no odor. •Oil painters commonly work with harmful solvents, including turpentine and odorless petroleum distillates. •Pastel and ceramic artists generate potentially harmful dusts, including heavy-metal particles. •Encaustic artists can release acrolein and formaldehyde, as well as wax vapor and pigments by heating their waxes. •Acrylic and gouache painters release small amounts of formaldehyde, ammonia, and gum binders into their environment. •Jewelry makers release cleaning solvent by-products when soldering. All of these, plus other dusts, chemicals, and many bacteria and viruses are filtered from your environment by ARTIST’S AIR. It incorporates the same filters used by many hospitals and other medical facilities. Harmful substances, if not eliminated, will pollute the air not only in your studio, but also in any attached rooms and the surrounding environment. ARTIST’S AIR is an efficient and cost effective solution for a space up to 1200-1500 square feet. Its balanced design allows a large flow of air with a low sound level.
HOW THE FILTERS WORK
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 collectionbox 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.
HOW The VOC CARBON Filter WORKS
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.
CLEAN INDOOR AIR IS ESSENTIAL FOR GOOD HEALTH
ARTIST’S AIR is an investment that will help you, and quite possibly your family and pets, lead longer, healthier lives and avoid the distress and expenses of allergies and other toxin-related health problems. Don’t wait for symptoms to occur. Be pro-active with your health. If dusts are your only problem, ARTIST’S AIR is available without a VOC carbon filter. We offer a one-year warranty and a generous return policy.
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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. • There are three fan speeds. The highest produces about as much sound as a modern window fan, but without any high-pitch sound. • 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.