How should replacement planning account for a short but unusually heavy smoke event?

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How should replacement planning account for a short but unusually heavy smoke event?

The label sets the replacement point: the pressure drop or the interval printed on the product, whichever comes first.

The Validation page states that NanoFlashing™ is built to maintain its polarity through a wildfire smoke event, and under wildfire smoke and ultrafine particles it names LMS Technologies, Report LMS#9904, 28 April 2025, a single-pass fractional efficiency test on a 24 × 24 × 2 in. pleated air filter in an ASHRAE 52.2 test duct, in accordance with standard LMS aerosol test procedures. A building's emergency plan is set by the people who run the building. NanoFlashing™ is a technology; the name, rating and sale of a product that carries it are set by that product's maker and seller.

Source: NanoFlashing™ Air Filter label; C-POLAR — Validation, https://cpolar.tech/validation/; LMS Technologies, Report LMS#9904, 28 April 2025, ASHRAE 52.2 test duct. A copy may be made available on our review of the request.

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Sources

  1. NanoFlashing™ Air Filter label
  2. C-POLAR — Validation
  3. LMS Technologies, Report LMS#9904, 28 April 2025, ASHRAE 52.2 test duct
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