Does a pass in a charge test predict a pass in the claimed functional test?
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Does a pass in a charge test predict a pass in the claimed functional test?
A published result belongs to the article that was tested, under the conditions named in the report that recorded it.
A charge measurement and a filtration or destruction test are different tests of different things, and the company does not present one as the other. A capture standard is not a destruction standard: ASHRAE 52.2 and ISO 16890 measure what a filter takes out of the air, and they say nothing about what happens to what is captured. The Terms of Use state: “A reported result describes only what the identified test found.”
What the company states about the mechanism is that the filter captures airborne particles mechanically and by electrostatic attraction, and that it is intended to destroy the viruses, bacteria and fungal spores it captures, on direct contact with the positive electric charge, by physical means, and only while the organism is captured by the positive electric charge.
Source: Statement of Classification for the NanoFlashing™ Air Filter, sections 2.5 and 2.6, issued by NF Technical Products Inc.; C-POLAR — Terms of Use, section 3, https://cpolar.tech/terms/; C-POLAR — Validation, https://cpolar.tech/validation/.
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Sources
- Statement of Classification for the NanoFlashing™ Air Filter, sections 2.5 and 2.6, issued by NF Technical Products Inc.
- C-POLAR — Terms of Use, section 3
- C-POLAR — Validation