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This DIY air purifier could improve your home’s air quality and protect you from wildfire smoke. Here’s how to make it (www.thestar.com)

submitted 1 year ago by salarua@sopuli.xyz to c/diy

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[–] Thrashy 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've lost track of it, but there was a study published about this style of filter around the start of the pandemic that suggested it could be effective at reducing PM2.5 and possibly airborne virii. It's a sound idea conceptually -- continuously filtering and re-filtering room air at a high volume is how industrial clean rooms work, and while this is a far cry from a carefully-engineered system like that (you won't have the hygienic surfaces and laminar flow characteristics, for instance), it at least has more than enough airflow to filter a room effectively.