Portable Air Filtration System

Indoor air quality has become one of the major concerns of the Environmental Protection Agency as the air inside homes and offices is more toxic than the worst outdoor air pollution. To tackle such problems related to your health and environment, an air filtration system could help make your home more livable. Portable air filtration systems are ideal for applications which vary greatly from one part to another making it impractical to adjust the location of fixed capture arms. A portable air filtration system includes a filter housing having an air inlet and an air outlet. The filter housing defines a filtration chamber between the air inlet and the air outlet.

The portable air filtration system uses an ionizing mechanism, a filter media, and an electrode to filter air. The ionizing mechanism ionizes particles within the air to a negative charge. The filter media is disposed between the ionizing mechanism and the air outlet for entrapping the particles. The electrode is disposed between the ionizing mechanism and the filter media to establish an electric field. The electric field is established between the ionizing mechanism and the electrode adjacent to the filter media. The electrode is also electrically-connected to ground and to the filter media for dissipating the negative charge of the particles entrapped within the filter media.