Loading ...
Loading ...
Loading ...
Page 8
Bio Air Scrubber Silver
GLOSSARY & ACRONYMS
1. ACGIH — American Conference of Government Industrial Hygienists
2. ASHRAE — American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air Conditioning Engineers
3. Air Handler/ AHU — The Furnace or air conditioner that heats, cools and moves the air.
4. Antimicrobial — Agent that kills Bacteria, Molds and viruses. See “Sanitizer
5. Arrestance — An ASHRAE standard procedure to measure air filter eiciency (52.1)
6. Bioaerosols — Molds and bacteria that are found floating in the air.
7. Biological Contaminants — Bacterial, Mold/Fungus, viruses and their waste, byproducts and decomposition
materials that can be inhaled and cause many types of health eects.
8. Building Related Illness — Diagnosable illness whose symptoms can be identified and whose cause
can be directly attributed to airborne building pollutants (e.g., Legionnaire’s disease, and hypersensitivity
pneumonitis).
9. CFM — Cubic Feet per Minute, a measure of how much air is flowing in an air system.
10. CO — Carbon Monoxide, an odorless, toxic gas produced during combustion.
11. CO2 — Carbon Dioxide an odorless, non-toxic gas produced during combustion and exhaled by people.
12. Ceiling Plenum —
The area above a suspended ceiling that may be used as a return path to the Air Handler.
13. Conditioned Air — The air that has been filtered, heated or cooled by the air handler.
14. Dampers — Flaps or valves in the air duct that control the amount of airflow in the duct.
15. Diusers & Grilles & Registers — The covers at the end of supply and return ducts that control the amount
and direction of the air-conditioned air entering or leaving a room.
16. Electrostatic Filter —
A High Eiciency (95% Arrestance) Air filter that generate static electricity from the air
movement through the air handler and captures dust from the air while the clean air move freely through it.
1 7. EPA — Environmental Protection Agency
18. Duct — A metal, plastic or fiberglass tube that transports air to and from the Air Handler. They can be round,
square or rectangular.
19. Duct Board — Compressed fiberglass material used to make air ducts, particularly in the southern U.S.
20. Fiberglass Filter — A disposable, very low eiciency filter (approx. 10% arrestance).
21. Flex duct — Plastic fabric duct with a spiral wire support. It is used extensively in the Western U.S.
22. HEPA — High Eiciency Particulate Air
23. HVAC — Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning
24. IAQ — Indoor Air Quality
25. MSDS — Material Safety Data Sheet
26. Make-up Air — Fresh “outside” air that is brought into a Commercial building.
27. NADCA — National Air Duct Cleaners Association
28. NAFA — National Air Filter Association
29. NIOSH — National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
30. Negative building pressure — A condition that allows air to flow into a building when a door is opened.
31. NSC — Nevada Safety Counsel
32. NSF International — An independent testing laboratory for Air filters
33. OSHA — Occupational Safety and Health Administration
34. Positive building Pressure — A condition when air will come out of a building when a door is opened.
35. Re-entrainment — The flow of dust and debris removed from an air system back into the same building
36. Return/Return Duct — Ducts that brings air back to the furnace or air conditioner
37. Sanitizer — A material designed to kill mold, bacteria, and viruses.
38. Sick Building Syndrome — A group of symptoms such as headache and watery eyes that disappear after
the suerer leaves the building for a few hours.
39. Supply/ Supply Duct — The opening and related ductwork that delivers conditioned air to a room.
40. VAV — Variable air volume system – A system that varies the amount of flow of air to regulate temperature.
41. VOC’s — See “Volatile Organic Compounds”
42. Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC’s) — Chemicals that release gasses into the air such as solvents.
Loading ...