{"id":5076,"date":"2022-05-26T02:42:12","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T02:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/airscrubberrental.com.au\/?p=5076"},"modified":"2022-05-26T02:42:12","modified_gmt":"2022-05-26T02:42:12","slug":"how-many-air-scrubbers-do-i-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/airscrubberrental.com.au\/how-many-air-scrubbers-do-i-need\/","title":{"rendered":"How Many Air Scrubbers Do I Need?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Generally, a negative air unit\/air scrubber will be placed inside the contained area to exhaust out the negative air.<\/p>\n<p>To calculate how many air scrubbers you need &#8211; you will need to do an Air changes per hour calculation &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>The air scrubber flow rate CFM is divided by the cubic volume of the contaminant space and then multiplied by 60 to convert minutes to hours.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s say the enclosure is 25\u2019 x 32\u2019 x 12\u2019 and that 4 air exchanges per hour are required.<\/p>\n<p>Answer:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Calculate the cubic volume &#8211; 25\u2019 x 32\u2019 x 12\u2019 = 9600 ft\u00b3<\/li>\n<li>Thus 1 air change is = 9600 ft\u00b3<\/li>\n<li>Therefore 4 air exchanges is = 38400 ft\u00b3<\/li>\n<li>Convert 38 400 ft\u00b3 per hour to ft\u00b3 per minute (divide by 60)<\/li>\n<li>= 640 ft\u00b3 per minute (cfm)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If the machine you are using is rated at 500 CFM, you will need 2 machines to provide the correct air filtration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of air scrubbers that you need will depend on the size of the enclosed area you are trying to filter. The general standard according to the IICRC is 4-12 times per hour. Additionally, to create negative air in your environment you need to ensure there is more air leaving the room than air that enters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":5077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[163],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/airscrubberrental.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5076"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/airscrubberrental.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/airscrubberrental.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airscrubberrental.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airscrubberrental.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/airscrubberrental.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airscrubberrental.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/airscrubberrental.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airscrubberrental.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airscrubberrental.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}