Air Purification Systems

Most people already know that house plants such as pothos help neutralize indoor air pollutants. In the near future, however, a special coating applied to lampshades could serve much the same purpose.

An experimental study has quantified the volume of aerosol particles generated by flushing toilets in a public restroom. The real-world research suggests even with lids closed flushing toilets can increase levels of ambient aerosol particles.

New research is suggesting the claim that house plants improve indoor air quality is wrong. The research concludes it would take hundreds of plants in a small space to come close to the air-purifying effects of simply opening a couple of windows.

Two new products from Wynd are suggested to be the ultimate in home air purification – Halo, an app-controlled sensor that can monitor specific pollutants in the air, and the Home Purifier, a massive air cleaner that can quickly clear contaminants from large spaces.​

Bird St in London has undergone something of a transformation recently, going from an underused offshoot to the "world's first Smart Street." Designed to showcase the High Street of the future, it merges pollution-busting and sustainable technology with a traffic-free shopping and dining experience.

After debuting in the Dutch cities of Rotterdam and Amsterdam last year, Studio Roosegaarde's Smog Free Tower has taken on its biggest challenge yet. It opened in Beijing, China, at the end of September and, in 41 days, cleaned 30,000,000 cu m (1,060,000,000 cu ft) of air.

Smog affects many major cities around the world. To combat this, Dutch artist Daan Roosegaarde is building what he calls the world's largest air purifier. The Smog Free Tower is designed to allow people to breathe clean air in a city ... plus it also turns the smog into jewelry.

Developed by the Create Lab at Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute, Speck is a state-of-the-art, low-cost, portable indoor air quality monitor that offers more precision to users. Enabled with Wi-Fi, it allows users to upload data to a portal and access official data.

Peruvian scientists have installed an air-purifying billboard in the city of Lima, capable of doing the work of 1,200 trees and purifying 100,000 cubic meters of air daily.

Scientists at the University of Hertfordshire have developed what they say is the world’s first portable, real-time airborne asbestos detector.

A newly-developed device known as a soft x-ray electrostatic precipitator has demonstrated an unprecedented ability to neutralize airborne pathogens.

A commonly-available, inexpensive polymer has been shown to be very effective at capturing carbon dioxide from sources such as smokestacks.