Ion Air Review

Our Sharp air purifier review continues with an in-depth examination of the efficiency of Plasmacluster Ion technology, the innovative air purification technology invented by Sharp Corporation in 2000. Conceptually, an efficiency test is one conducted in the laboratory to demonstrate that the reactive agents of a technology, plasmacluster ions in this case, work in practice as opposed to just being a fancy theory demonstrable only with computer animation. In a typical efficiency experiment, the reactive agents are pumped into a sealed container. The pathogen is injected into the same container. After a certain time period, a sample of the mixture of reactive agent and pathogen is extracted. This "treated" pathogen extract is injected into a laboratory-grown cell culture (Culture A). For control purposes, a sample of "untreated" pathogen is injected into another cell culture (Culture B). After a few days, the two cultures are compared. If the cells in the tre...

Ionic air purifiers exist to combat airborne contaminants that are invisible to the human eye. They employ beneficial reactive agents that are also invisible to users. How then shall a user know if the purifier is doing what it claims or just burning electricity? A good place to start would be a properly conducted review. A quality review must begin by focusing on user safety. Safety, which can be further classified into 2 separate categories, has been covered at length in this author's 2 articles. An ionic air purifier review must also include 2 other equally critical criteria: (1) Efficacy Test - the purifier technology, firmly grounded in sound scientific theory, must be proven to work in a laboratory; (2) Efficiency Test - the lab-tested purifier technology must be successfully transplanted into an appliance that replicates the same laboratory results in the users' setting at home, in school, or the workplace. Such demanding tests require substantial resources qu...