Ozone Air Treatment
Good indoor air quality contributes a lot to the comfort and health of the people in the room. The health risks are much more higher due to exposure to bad indoor air quality than outdoors.
ozone increasingly is being employed commercially for air treatment odor control (removal of VOCs from the air). Ozone been applied on a large scale to heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems.
By treating the air conditioning system with ozone, you can prevent the build up of bio films, and consequently the build up of bacteria and fungi. This will eliminate bad smell and the spread of health problems such as allergies, rashes, colds, viruses and legionnaires disease. Ozone also has very low maintenance costs, consequently making ozone not only the most efficient treatment option, but also one of the simplest.
Ozone oxidizes airborne pollutants, then reverts back to oxygen, transforming polluted air to pure and re-freshened air.
Here is how the process works:
1. Oxygen molecules (O1 and O2) are converted to ozone (O3) by either a high-voltage electrical charge (such as from lightning), or by ultraviolet light (such as from the sun rays).
2. One oxygen atom (O1) splits off from the ozone molecule, and reacts with other particles when it comes within range of a particle and/or pollutant. Ozone is highly reactive, so it never fails to initiate this reaction with other particles.
3. As the second most powerful oxidant in existence, the single oxygen atom proceeds to "oxidize" the particle it reacts with. This means it burns the particle, which changes its physical properties. As a result, the particle will no longer be toxic, and will no longer be able to reproduce if it is biological. In other words, the particle becomes completely harmless.
4. When the single oxygen (O1) molecule oxidizes the particle, it too is destroyed. This leaves behind the O2 it split away from, or pure and clean oxygen.