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Carrier OptiClean ‘Best Invention of 2020’ Carrier’s OptiClean dual-mode air scrubber and negative air machine, currently being sold in the North American market, has been named as one of TIME magazine’s 100 Best Inventions of 2020. The OptiClean was developed through rapid innovation in early 2020 to help support infectious isolation rooms in hospitals. TIME featured OptiClean in the Medical Care Category of its prestigious annual list that recognises 100 ground-breaking inventions that are making the world better and smarter. At the onset of the pandemic, Carrier invented the OptiClean as a negative air machine for hospitals treating Covid-19 patients to help hospitals protect caregivers, workers and patients. OptiClean can plug into standard wall outlets and has a footprint of less than three square feet. As an air scrubber, OptiClean can improve the indoor air quality of classrooms, restaurants, dental offices, commercial buildings and more, by pulling in air, scrubbing it using a HEPA filter, and then exhausting cleaner air back into the room, reducing
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contaminants in the air and offering further protection as part of an overall mitigation strategy. OptiClean is one of a number of solutions offered through Carrier’s Healthy Buildings Programme, an expanded suite of advanced solutions to help deliver healthier, safer, more efficient and productive indoor environments. To view the full TIME Best Inventions 2020 list visit time.com/best-inventions-2020 The OptiClean rolls easily into any room and plugs into a standard electrical outlet to quickly improve indoor air quality (IAQ). Units can operate either vertically or horizontally in two modes. Air Scrubber – uses 99.97% efficient, long-life (~40,000 hour) HEPA filters to remove particles as small as 0.3 microns, then discharge cleaner air back into the room. Ideal for a wide range of commercial applications, including classrooms, dental office exam rooms, and open-air, temporary medical facilities; Negative Air Machine – helps convert normal hospital rooms into negativepressure airborne infectious isolation rooms (AIIR) by adding a vacuum effect
to the HEPA filtration capability. Designed to ASHRAE Standard 170 for Ventilation of Health Care Facilities. Versions of the OptiClean are being developed globally and will be adapted to European, Middle Eastern, Asian and South American regulations and markets. These new region and countryspecific versions are scheduled to come on stream throughout the early part of 2021. Contact: Core Air Conditioning Ireland. Tel: 01 – 409 8912; email: info@coreac.com; www.coreac.com Q
Carrier’s OptiClean dual-mode air scrubber and negative air machine.
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