Austin HealthMate Junior Plus(HEGA) Air Filter

The HEGA Air Purifiers combine the gas trapping ability of military carbon cloth to reduce smoke, smog and fumes from your environment. They also come with HEPA particle filtration. These no-nonsense machines concentrate on the important essentials of air cleaning.

Additional features include a pre-filter and activated carbon-zeolite.

The filtration system removes:

• dust
• dander
• pollen
• smoke
• odors
• toxic fumes
• gases and VOCs

• Cleans up to 700 sq ft on high fan speed at 2 air changes per hour, 350 sq ft at 4 air changes per hour (We recommend 4 air changes or more for allergy sufferers.)
• HEGA filtration - High Efficiency Gas Adsorption, created by the Austin Air engineers
• Combines the gas trapping ability of military carbon cloth for smoke, smog and fumes from city environments with HEPA's particle filtration. (Note: Improved ventilation and use of air purifiers may reduce, but will not completely eliminate, your exposure to secondhand smoke and the associated health risks.)
• Suitable for a small bedroom
• Removes a wide variety of contaminants, including dust, pollens, dander, odors, chemical vapors and more
• 30 sq. ft. true HEPA medical filter medium
• 3 Speed control switch
• Strategically placed activated carbon military fiber cloth
  

How it Works
Austin Air HEGA Air Purifiers:

All Austin Air air purifiers remove a wide variety of contaminants: particles removed include dust, pollens, dander, odors, chemical vapors and more.

The economical 1 ½ H.P. split capacitor only uses 115 watts of power at its highest setting. The air exchange rate is proportionately higher at maximum fan speed. The included HEPA filter filters out allergens up to .3 microns and 99.97 % efficiency. The units have 3 fan speeds.

HEGA - High Efficiency Gas Adsorption Technology Explained

Most people have heard of HEPA filtration which is HIGH EFFICIENCY PARTICULATE ARRESTANCE filtration (good for small particles such as dust, danger, pollen, mold, etc.). In cases of smoke removal, this is highly effective, since the smoke consists of millions of tiny particles which normally would fill the pores of the activated carbon, greatly reducing it's life and effectiveness. In the Austin Air HEGA, the positioning of the HEPA and gas filter is reversed.

The HEPA filter is located first on the outside, and the HEGA filter is located second on the inside. The smoke encounters the HEPA filter first, where the smoke particles are removed and then the gases and odors can be addressed by the HEGA filter.

Some allergy sufferers also need chemicals, odors, and gases removed from their environments (new homes, city living, apartment living). This type of gas filtration is usually achieved by using some type of carbon or carbon/zeolite pellets to absorb the gases and odors. Some manufacturers are now also using a carbon cloth filter for gas and odor control. Wouldn't it be great to combine both technologies to remove particulates, gases and odors?

Austin Air's product development team listened and developed a method for combining the carbon cloth's gas trapping properties with HEPA particles filtration. Austin engineers named their new filtration discovery HEGA - High Efficiency Gas Adsorption. It consists of an activated carbon lightweight cloth, which is powerful enough to protect military personnel from toxic poisons. Because of this, it is also more effective for smoke filtration.