Aprilaire 2310 owner manual Introduction, Performance, Common Pollutants

Introduction

Thank you for your recent Aprilaire® Air Cleaner purchase. We sincerely appreciate your business and are pleased to add your name to our growing list of customers. With this purchase, you have invested in the highest quality equipment currently available. Research Products Corporation is the largest manufacturer of central air cleaners and humidifiers and a recognized leader in the heating and air conditioning industry today.

Please be assured that in addition to product quality, we are also committed to performance as well as customer satisfaction. Important: Scheduled replacement of the Aprilaire® filtering media is necessary. See page 3 for details.

Now, please take a few minutes and read this booklet. This will familiarize you with the benefits you will receive from the equipment you just purchased and help you understand the routine maintenance that will be required. Be sure to register your warranty with us for our records and your protection.

Your Aprilaire® Air Cleaner is an investment in healthful comfort for your family and protection for your home and furnishings. With this purchase, you have invested in an air cleaner that is many times more efficient than ordinary furnace or air conditioning filters with which you may be familiar. There are many benefits you may expect from your Aprilaire® Air Cleaner. This manual is furnished to acquaint you with these benefits, and with operation and maintenance information to insure the high level of performance this high efficiency air cleaner is designed to provide.

Performance

An Aprilaire whole-house air cleaner is installed by your heating and air conditioning contractor as one of the components in your heating and cooling system. It cleans the air that circulates through your home (see Figure 1).

Figure 1

When the heating or cooling equipment turns on, the air in your home travels through the registers and return duct(s) to the heating and cooling equipment where it is conditioned and sent back into the rooms of your house through the supply ducts. Small particles from numerous sources are suspended in your home’s air, just as they are suspended in the air outdoors. The largest of these particles will eventually come to rest and appear as dust. Smaller particles may come to rest, but with even the slightest disturbance will re-suspend into the air. These particles are very small, and come from natural sources such as dust and pollen and from manmade sources such as tobacco smoke or exhaust. The air cleaner is installed on or near the furnace/air handler and removes the particles that travel with the air that circulates through your heating and cooling system. Removing these particles keeps the equipment components clean and more importantly removes particles from the air you breathe. Particles are measured in microns, which is a unit of measure used for very small things (1 micron = 1/25,400 inch). For reference, the diameter of a human hair is approximately 100 microns. Figure 2 shows the size of various particles that can be found in the air.

Figure 2

Common Pollutants

Particle sizes in microns* (1 micron = 1/25,400 inch)

0.01 0.1 1 5 10 50 100

Pollens & sPores

sMudging

dust

sMoKe

AirBorne BACteriA

*American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineering Guide

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