The IQAir Atem is a personal, portable air purifier that’s new on the scene. Recently, air-breather Vincent asked Smart Air to review the IQAir Atem, which IQAir calls “the most effective personal air purifier.” IQAir Atem Purifier Review and Test Being the data nerds that we are, we decided to …
When I first started making DIY purifiers, the only air quality monitors I could buy were a US$260 Dylos or crazily expensive particle counters that costed thousands of dollars. Since then, the market has exploded with new particle counters as cheap as US$15. But are they any good? …
This post contains supplemental data for the post “Can I Clean or Wash HEPA filters?“. It includes detailed information about the testing method, and the original data, open-sourced for all to view. Click here to view the original article Open Data Particle Capture Tests For the particle capture tests, CK …
Four years ago, I was coughing through a Beijing winter and wanted some clean air. But all the purifiers I could find cost hundreds of dollars, so I strapped a filter to a fan I had at home and made my first DIY purifier. It wasn’t pretty, but I tested …
Another year, another winter. As winter arrives in Beijing and soon in Shanghai, I got to wondering: how much worse is winter air in Beijing? To get to the bottom of it, I analyzed the last eight years of US Embassy PM2.5 data for Beijing and Shanghai. I found that …
When I started Smart Air in 2013, I wanted to buy an air quality monitor. I had basically two options. I could buy a US$260 Dylos or spend thousands of dollars on the crazy expensive particle counters. Since then, the market has exploded with new air quality monitors as cheap as …
Map of today’s pollution levels across China – 9th September 2016. Source：http://aqicn.org What a glorious day in Beijing! Right now, the US Embassy in Beijing is giving a PM2.5 value of 0. Is summer normally this good? And what’s the pollution like in other parts of China right now? (Short answer: …
BBC Horizons attends one of our workshops in Beijing as part of their series on Pollution Solutions See the full episode at BBC Horizons.
