<h1>Choosing A Portable Fume Extractor: 3 Quick & Easy Steps to Getting the Right Unit</h1>

Choosing a portable fume extractor for your business shouldn’t be complicated. When you look online, however, you see a lot of prices and pictures, but often not the best information to clearly and quickly point you in the right direction. Here are three easy steps to choosing the right fume extractor (and manufacturer):

 

First, if it’s going to be an effective fume, gas, or VOC collection system, the air cleaner must have high quality carbon capable of removing a large variety of chemical pollutants. Rarely is there only one fume that needs to be removed—it’s almost always a combination because most workshops have more than one solvent or chemical present, and each one can contain several different elements that need to be removed. That said, you need an activated carbon filter that removes a wide range of chemical pollutants, and one that can be ‘tuned’ to remove a specific pollutant, if needed. That’s the only way you’re going to know for sure that your fume extractor is truly providing clean air. Electrocorp is one top-rated brand of air cleaners that offers this type of high-powered industrial strength carbon with the ability to tune the carbon to make sure it removes specific chemical or gas pollutants.

 

Second, you want high output capability but for the best fume removal , it’s usually recommended to run the unit at a slower speed so that the air has more time in contact with the carbon, which cleans it better. Running a fume extractor on high all the time can put extra wear on the unit and circulate somewhat polluted air back into your room. High output is used to clear out an area initially for an hour or two, or if high levels of chemical, vapor, gas or VOC pollutants are present on a regular basis—and if so, you’ll likely need more fume extractor units to properly clean the air because to get the best fume removal, you’ll need to run the air cleaner at about 250-350 CFM, which means you’ll need more units to achieve the OSHA required number of clean air changes per hour. So, again, you want high output capability and a strong motor, but one that has variable speed so you can run it at lower settings to clean the air properly.

 

Third, determine clearly if you have particles floating around or not. If you truly don’t have particle or fiber type pollutants in the air, you probably won’t need a fume extractor with a HEPA filter. We always recommend buying a unit with a HEPA filter, however, just to make sure any hazardous particles are removed. It usually doesn’t cost that much more and for the extra health and liability protection, it’s worth it. Just be sure to replace the filters on a regular basis to maintain that super-clean, liability-free air in your place of business. Carbon filters are even more important to replace on time or before, because they can become saturated and since they’re not able to remove chemicals at that point, the unit will be circulating polluted air, which you don’t want. For HEPA filters, the best way to know when to replace them is when they appear greyish or dirty on inside and outside.

 

Air Purifiers and Cleaners.com sells only the finest portable fume extractors and duct-mounted chemical vapor filtration systems designed for heavy commercial or industrial use, with proven performance, and great warranties. And since we are an online store with low overhead, this allows us to sell these great fume & gas collection systems at cheap discount prices with free shipping every day, to help keep your bottom line where it should be—profitable. If you have any questions, just give our experts a call toll-free at 1-800-701-2513. We are here to help!

 

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