| What Does HEPA Stand For? | | | | market is known as HEPA. This is a look at how |
| Depending on where you look i have seen it called | | | | this specific type of air cleaner technology works |
| the following: | | | | to keep air cleaner at your home. |
| High Efficiency Particulate Airfilter | | | | The HEPA filters work to keep up to 99.7 |
| High Efficiency Particulate Arrestor | | | | percent particles out of the air in your home. |
| High Efficiency Particulate Absorber | | | | There are an alarming number of different dust |
| Many people complain about how the air cleaners | | | | particles found in the air at your home that are |
| and dirt filters installed at their homes do not keep | | | | not picked by vacuum cleaners or normal air |
| the air sufficiently pure as per their requirements. | | | | filters. |
| Usually the problem is not with the filter itself but | | | | These particles are one of the main reasons for |
| the fact most dirt filters are not that sensitive to | | | | so many allergies which cause excessive sneezing |
| keep away the smallest, yet harmful particles | | | | and coughing, particularly at night. An example of |
| from polluting the air at your home. | | | | such particles, not picked by vacuum cleaners is |
| A latest make of air purifiers available in the | | | | pet hair, yet it is the cause of many allergies. |