The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) has published standards for Indoor Air Quality (ASHRAE 62.1 & 62.2) and Control of Infectious Aerosols (ASHRAE 241).
I've done a first pass over the numbers published in ASHRAE 241, converting the cited numbers for various scenarios to cubic meters of clean air per person per hour. Then compared that to some of the air filters I've been looking at recently:
I'm looking into this because a number of pals are trying to create safer community spaces. The information on how to do that is available, but unevenly distributed - so I figured that I might as well read up (:
I now know that one group will probably be happy with a Mini Mk.2 purifier as part of their fixed deployment. With additional mitigations needed for when they run events.
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