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Technology Demos

How to demonstrate the effects of EcoQuest's technology

at a meeting or at an in-home demo...

    Image of sliced sweet Vidalia onion, ...    

Scott Redfield

Sales Manager under Enrique Muniz

 

(Start by asking everyone to stand up)

"Okay, everybody, take a deep, refreshing breath of air, in through the nose and out through the mouth.

 

You inhale roughly 1 liter of air with each breath along with 70,000 particles. Less than one half of one percent of those particles are visible.

 

A human hair is 100 microns in diameter. The period on a sentence is 650 microns in diameter. You can visibly see with good eyesight and good lighting down to 30 microns. All of the bad stuff in the air -- bacteria, mold, viruses, pollen -- is less than one micron. A smoke particle is 1/100th of a micron. If I release a smoke particle in the air at 8 feet, it comes crashing to the ground 408 days later. That means it's in your breathing space, along with all of the other pathogens, for months.

 

After you take your cleaning breath, remember that you do that 15-16 times per minute every minute of your life. If you don't have an efficient air purification system, you and your family are the air purification system.

 

He sprayed a large portion of a paper towel and passed that around the audience. Then he hung the paper towel in front of the Fresh Air (by putting the bottle on one corner of the towel).

 

I'm very careful about the onion test. I rub the appropriate hand with onion juice so it is easy for a person to stand with their hand in front of the unit and face the audience. I use a smelly onion and say, "Now in normal conditions this onion smell would stay on your hand for six to eight hours. Right?" Wouldn't you consider it remarkable if the onion smell dissipated in one hour? What if it was substantially gone within a minute?

 

Now let's make some smoke here in this acrylic box. (I always put in 5 drops of oil. I want a very heavy buildup of smoke in my box. It makes for a more dramatic demonstration. I like to turn on the smoke a second time and start just the needlepoint ionizer while the smoke is flowing up. The ions just knock it out of the air as it forms and pin the smoke to the bottom of the box.)

 

A smoke particle is a particle just like a golf ball, except it's extremely small. Imagine a frying pan of burning bacon on the stove with your ceiling fans running and your air conditioning system circulating the air. Within just a few minutes it is in every nook and cranny of the house. You can't filter smoke out because the particles are too small. The only way to remove it is to open every door and window in the house and try to vent it. Even after four hours you can still smell the bacon smoke.

 

The air handler, which is a passive technology, just redistributes the smoke and other pathogens throughout the house.

 

With our ionization, we cause the particles to stick together, get bigger, and fall out of the indoor air 250 times faster. Much like snowflakes float and snowballs crash.

 

Pass the paper towel around.

 

Now we are going to talk about another technology that's called oxidation. At the same time that we are dropping particles out of the air in all directions around our ionizer systems, we are sending out an invisible plasma of friendly oxidizers. They spread through the house much like the smoke that is coming off that burning frying pan. We take oxygen and water vapor and through the use of a UVX light that activates the honeycomb catalyst we breakdown the oxygen(O2) and water vapor(H2O) that occur naturally in our air to ozone(O3), oxygen(O2) minus an electron, hydroxyl radicals (OH), vaporous hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and super hydroxides (O2H).

 

These five oxidizers have a few things in common. They all occur naturally. They are all combinations of oxygen and hydrogen. And they are all very unstable. As these invisible oxidizers go out, they bump into mold, viruses, bacteria and other pollutants. They oxidize those things much like fire reduces a log into a little bit of ash, and they revert back to water vapor and oxygen, a very natural process. These oxidizers go out there like little yellow Pacmen. They do this actively throughout the house. They not only clean the air, they clean the flush handles, the door knobs, the countertops, literally every surface in the house, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

 

If I had influenza (rubs hand across nose and sniffles) and I touch the doorknob that virus will stay there and be viable for 48 hours. If we have this technology going, the virus on the doorknob is up against a 99.9% kill rate in the very first hour.

 

NOTE: The petri dish is a result of a sterile swab sampling technique (Q-tip with a college education) in a residence. The swab is then sent to Enviro Screening Labs for evaluation. The lab "grows" the sample in a culture dish for 72 hours and than screens for toxic molds and bacteria. They qualify (identify) and quantify (count). In the "before" sample there was so much bacteria that the lab uses a category called TNTC, which means "too numerous to count". The three toxic molds; Cladosporium, Aspergillus, and Penicillium had a total of 26 CFU (colony forming units) per square inch of dish material. There is usually a lot of other stuff picked up, but the lab ignores it in their screening process. The "after" result shown is dramatically pristine. Results are not always this clean. In this case the sterile swabs were repeated 4 days after placement of a Fresh Air unit.

 

One of the things I love about our technology is that bad viruses and other pathogens can evolve against certain antibiotic and antiviral medicines, but they cannot evolve against oxidation.

 

Show the Kansas State graphs to close. Show photos of a before and after culture dish. I might give some additional technical information. I give them the ten fun experiments. We've done the onion and ammonia test, but here are some others. I always point out that they can sanitize all of the dead skin, dead dust mites and dust mite feces in their bedding in the AWAY mode for four to six hours.

 

In a book by Dr. Alan Somersall a statistic is presented. He writes that three out of four asthmatics die between 2:00 o'clock and 4:00 o'clock in the morning and it's because of breathing dust mite feces and bacteria that are imbedded in the pillows and bedding. The worst part of most people's day is first thing in the morning after getting up. Sinuses are stuffy or clogged and  eyes have that nasty crust that forms magically in the middle of the night. Not only is this greatly reduced or eliminated after a bed sanitization, but snoring usually stops and a better and longer night's sleep is the result. 

After your meeting, hand out this form to get all the guest information and see what products they are interested in buying: http://www.chippynews.com/USCanadianInitialProductOrderForm.pdf

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by Scott Redfield « CLICK to listen to Scott's indoor air quality demo.   

In the Normal setting you have Radio Wave Ionization, Needle Point Ionization, and Radiant Catalytic Ionization. These technologies charge the particles in the air in a 3,000 square foot area and cause them to "fall out" of the breathing space up to 250 times faster than normal gravity.**

**From the University of Cincinnati study: "Particle Removal from Air. Figure 2, shows the evolution of the concentration and particle size distribution of NaCl aerosol when the air purifier operated in the large test chamber. As seen from this example, the aerosol concentration of 0.1 μm particles decreased by a factor of 28 in 1 hour and by a factor of about 250 in 2 hours; the corresponding decreases for 1 μm particles were approximately 10- and 50-fold. When testing with smoke particles, the aerosol concentration decreased even more rapidly. The above levels of the aerosol concentration reduction are considerably greater than those predicted by either tranquil or stirred natural decay models (32). This result was obtained when both the air ion emitter and the RCI cell operated in the unit. Interestingly, statistically the same particle reduction effect (p > 0.05) was observed when the RCI cell was turned off and only the ion emitter operated. The latter finding provides the evidence that the particle removal was achieved as a result of unipolar ion emission but not due to photocatalytic reactions."

To draw a parallel, snowflakes float and snowballs crash. A smoke particle, at .01 microns, takes 408 days to fall a distance of eight feet and is in your breathing space for four to five months! Remember that every time you inhale a breath of indoor air (about one liter) it contains 70,000 particles composed of dead skin, dust, dust mites, dust mite feces, viruses, bacteria, mold spores, pollen, carcinogenic volatile organic compounds (VOCs), smoke and particulate. Less than one tenth of one percent of these particles are visible. Consider that you do this 15 - 16 times per minute every minute of every hour of every day. That is over 20,000 times per day or 1,400,000,000 particles per day! If you don't have an efficient, active advanced air purification system, you and your family become the air purification system.

At the same time that we are dropping particulate out of the air 60 feet in all directions, we are sending out an invisible plasma of friendly oxidizers which are spread through the house much like smoke that is coming off of a burning frying pan. With the assistance of air currents, ceiling fans and HVAC systems, it literally finds its way into every nook and cranny in the house. The technology takes oxygen and water vapor (through the use of a UVX light that activates our honeycomb hydrophilic catalyst) and breaks the oxygen (O2) and water vapor (H2O)  into ozone (O3), activated oxygen (O2 minus an electron), hydroxyl radicals (OH), vaporous hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and super hydroxides (O2H).

These five oxidizers have a few things in common. They all occur naturally as oxygen and water vapor. They are all combinations of oxygen and hydrogen molecules. And all are very unstable. As these invisible oxidizers go out, they bump into mold, viruses, bacteria and other pollutants. They oxidize these pollutants much like fire reduces a log into a little bit of ash, and the pollutants revert back to water vapor and oxygen, a very natural process.

These five oxidizers go out like little PacMen. They do their cleaning actively throughout the entire house. They not only clean the air, they clean every square inch of surface in the house. The flush handles on toilets, sinks, showers, the door knobs, the countertops, the floors, literally every surface in the house, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. (Remember: a fork, a spoon, a glass all have surfaces and are treated!

This process regulates indoor ozone levels as well by consuming ozone in the manufacture of vaporous hydrogen peroxide. As you know, the number of ozone generators in our indoor environment at home, school, and work, is at an all time high and will continue to increase in the foreseeable future. They include computers, copiers, microwave ovens, refrigerators, ceiling fans, pencil sharpeners, blenders, food processors, TVs, HVAC equipment, virtually anything electric.

This ozone reduction is very easy to document. I did concurrent ozone testing outside and inside my house where we have had this technology in place since January 2006. On September 15, 2007, between 12:00 noon and 1:00 PM (a sunny day in the high 80s) the level of ozone outside was 50 parts per billion vs 10 parts per billion inside. This is a simplified but accurate overview of what happens in the Normal Setting.  

This particular model also has a Purifier mode, which gives the homeowner the option of adding incremental amounts of coronal discharge ozone to customize its performance to the unique load and conditions of any particular indoor environment. The thirteen settings go from 0 to 3,000 feet. In general we recommend starting low and finding a comfortable level, much like one does with the volume of a surround sound system. If it smells too strong turn it down. 

Finally, the AWAY mode which is sometimes referred to as the Sanitize mode. Selecting this option draws the maximum amount of coronal discharge ozone from the unit. The AWAY level is 125% of the highest of the Purifier settings. I sometimes refer to this as "the shock the pool" mode. Just as you would stay out of the water while shocking a pool, you want to stay out of the immediate indoor area when you have the Fresh Air unit in the AWAY mode.

This option is highly effective on areas of special challenge: Walk-in closets, cars, garages and areas with tobacco smoke or mildew odors. My favorite use of this mode is to sanitize bedding to eliminate dead skin and dust mite feces. I strip the bed, open the doors to walk-in closets and bathrooms, put the unit on the AWAY mode for 6 - 8 hours and close the door to the master bedroom. It works! I no longer wake up stuffy or clogged or with that eye crust that magically appears in the middle of the night. Another bonus. I used to snore like a chainsaw (EcoQuest does not make this claim and experience has shown that not everyone realizes this benefit). Not any longer. I now sleep through the night without the benefit of the knees and elbows that were always trying to get me to roll over. Best of all, I have a happy, cheerful, well-rested wife. As they say in the MasterCard commercial: Priceless

Anytime the Fresh Air by EcoQuest unit is on (we recommend 24/7), the homeowner gets all the benefits of the Normal mode. The use of the other modes is optional and simply augments the Normal setting.

One other huge point about EcoQuest technology; and this has to do with Nosocomial Infections (occurring in hospitals), MRSA and so called Super Bugs. One thing I love about this technology is that bad viruses and other pathogens can and do evolve against antibiotics and antiviral medicines (and are doing so at an alarming rate), but they cannot evolve against oxidation any more than they can evolve against fire. 

I hope this helps clarify some of the technology questions that come up. We have a comprehensive line of specialized residential, commercial and industrial equipment available that can accomplish amazing results with respect to any Indoor Air or Surface Quality issues.

 

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