Atmospheric Glow Technologies Introduces New Indoor Air Purification Product
"We wanted to get our air purification product to market right away because we know it can help protect people as they are working on cleaning up after the hurricanes that have hit so many areas," said Kimberly Kelly- Wintenberg, Ph.D., AGT's President and COO. "If a room or basement has bad smells or mold or other air quality issues, our product can keep the air clean until the source of the problem can be eliminated."
In fact, offering a way to immediately clean the air of microorganisms and odors is expected to be one of the main selling points for this portable air filtration system.
"Business owners, schools, building managers...all these folks will have a use for this product," said Troy Rudd, General Manager of Air Quality Associates, which does air testing. "If someone is worried about something in the air, the smart thing to do will be to roll in one of these units and have it running while you check into the problem. It would be the smart, safe thing to do."
When the machine was first unveiled at the Indoor Air Quality Association's national meeting last week, several orders were placed on the spot.
AGT's PlasmaAire technology generates chemistry to destroy odors and eliminate at least 99.9 percent of all known bacteria, viruses, and spores.
The portable unit will clean the air in a room up to 900 square feet. A permanent unit that would be part of a building's HVAC system will be field tested in November.
When AGT first developed its PlasmaAire technology in 2002, it won an R&D 100 Award from R&D Magazine, which is highly unusual for a small company. Now, that the first PlasmaAire product has made it to the marketplace, AGT has won a second R&D 100 Award for an unrelated biotechnology product.
"We are absolutely thrilled," said Kelly-Wintenberg. "It says a lot about our people and our innovation that a firm our size would win a second R&D 100 Award within three years. Our atmospheric plasma technology is allowing us to create a steady stream of products in a number of different market sectors."
The new award is for the PlasmaGen(TM) APR-510-S which, in layman's terms, extracts DNA samples from microorganisms. Currently that process involves significant amounts of both time and money. It can involve a person handling chemicals and can take as long as a day and a half. The PlasmaGen requires no chemicals and extracts the sample in just two minutes. The desktop-sized unit is already in use in Japan, and is being evaluated for the Department of Defense.
SOURCE: Atmospheric Glow Technologies