People often spray air fresheners or use air purifiers to get rid of odours indoors. Many people are confused between the two, thinking that air fresheners are air purifiers, but they are two completely different concepts. Air fresheners can only cover odour by emitting fragrance, while air purifiers can eliminate odour. Although air fresheners are cheap and easy to use, they contain ingredients that may cause harm to the human body. Air purifiers, on the other hand, can truly clean and purify the air. So what is the difference between air fresheners and air purifiers?
Are air fresheners and air purifiers the same?
Air purifiers are home appliances that purify the air with more than 3 layers of filters inside, filtering out hair, bacteria, PM2.5 particulate matter, and harmful gases such as formaldehyde VOCs by circulating the air in the room.
The air freshener is a spray that uses a scent to cover the original odour, but it does not purify the air, in a way that it is a cover-up.
The difference between air fresheners and air purifiers
1. Air freshener
Air freshener, also known as "environmental perfume", is a freshener of ethanol, flavouring, deionized water and other components, through the dissemination of fragrance to cover the odour, to alleviate the uncomfortable feeling people the odour.
The advantages of air fresheners are: inexpensive, easy to use, and have a wide range of fragrances to choose from.
The most obvious drawbacks of air fresheners are.
It contains ingredients that may bring harm to the human body. Air fresheners currently on the market are sold in many varieties, but basically by the ether, flavouring and other components, these substances in the air after the chemical decomposition of the gas produced by some of the components are air pollutants, which exacerbates the degree of indoor air pollution in the car, long-term use of the human body will produce undesirable stimuli. In addition, air fresheners contain aromatics on the human nervous system can also be harmful, and stimulate the mucous membranes of the respiratory tract of children.
It does not decompose harmful gases to achieve the purpose of air freshening. Its role is to cover the odour by emitting aroma, rather than reacting with the air to cause odour gas, that is to say, the effect of air freshener does not remove harmful gases in the air, it is only by confusing the human sense of smell to "lighten" the odour.
2. Air purifier
Air purifiers purify the air, kill bacteria, viruses, moulds, spores and other so-called sterilisation, but also remove formaldehyde, phenol and so on and so on in the indoor air of organic pollutants such as gas, but also kill or filter pollen and other allergens. At the same time, the smoke and smoke odour produced by smoking, bathroom bad smell, human body odour and other effective removal.
An air purifier usually consists of a system of high-voltage generating circuits negative ion generators, micro fans, air filters and so on. Its working principle is: the machine within the micro-fan (also known as ventilator) so that the indoor air circulation flow, polluted air through the air within the machine after several layers of filters, will be a variety of pollutants removed or adsorbed, and then mounted in the outlet of the anion generator (when working in the anion generator in the high-voltage generator to produce DC negative high pressure), the air is constantly ionised, generating a large number of negative ions, was sent by the micro-fan to form the negative ion airflow, to achieve the purpose of cleaning and purifying the air.
Air fresheners and air purifiers are fundamentally different.
Air freshener: it does not decompose harmful gases to achieve the purpose of air freshening. Its function is to cover the odour by emitting fragrance.
Air purifier: it has the functions of filtering out dust, eliminating odours and harmful gases, double sterilisation and releasing negative ions. It can achieve the purpose of cleaning and purifying the air.
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