Energy Efficient Building with filterless Air Pollution Abatement solution

供暖通风和空调（HVAC）系统占建筑物能耗的60%，并且仍然100%依赖低效和昂贵的过滤器，这增加了能源使用成本，也增加了建筑物所有者和租户的高维护和材料成本。此外，确保我们在工作和生活领域呼吸的良好空气质量（地面环境空气）对人们的健康和环境都至关重要，在最近的大流行事件和科学证据之后，良好的室内空气质量和通风是减少病毒/感染传播的关键。随着能源成本以前所未有的水平上升，与建筑能源使用相关的二氧化碳排放成为英国实现净零目标的关键，提高暖通空调能源效率和改善建筑内空气质量水平是显而易见的目标。然而，大多数现有的技术都是孤立的，有些是为了减少能源消耗而管理暖通空调操作，而不是为了其内在的效率，其他技术则试图去除/减少单个房间内的污染物，这对建筑物所有者/租户来说是额外的成本。我们提出的是一种新的创新方法，使用我们基于自然的技术，称为APA（空气污染减排），该技术已经获得IGS的专利，并经过第三方独立机构的广泛测试和验证，用于减少室内和室外的污染物，该技术具有使用简单水的独特特点，不使用过滤器，不使用化学物质。到目前为止，我们已经成功地将APA作为独立（或集群）解决方案应用，但没有在现实环境中与建筑物中的HVAC系统相结合。实验室测试证明，APA- hvac集成不仅是可能的，而且可以同时提供能源效率和空气质量改善的上述两种好处，具有巨大的运营优势以及经济、环境和人们健康的好处，所有这些都是通过应用相同的APA水基技术实现的。这怎么可能呢？APA的优点是使用简单的水来去除最广泛的空气污染物，HVAC系统通过内部冷凝过程产生的水今天被浪费了，而APA可以再利用这些水。此外，通过在空气进入暖通空调过滤器之前去除空气中的颗粒，APA大大减少了由于过滤器堵塞而导致的低效率和额外的能源消耗，在现有的暖通空调系统中，过滤器堵塞在不到一年的时间里会增加一倍。

Heating Ventilation and Air conditioning (HVAC) systems are responsible for up to 60% of the energy used by buildings and are still relying 100% on inefficient and expensive filters, adding to the cost of energy used, also high maintenance and material costs for building owners and consequently to tenants. Moreover, ensuring a good quality of the air we breathe (ambient air, at ground level) in the areas of work and life is nowadays essential both for people's health and for the environment, and following recent pandemic events and scientific evidence, a good indoor air quality and ventilation is key to reduce virus/infection spread. With cost of energy going up at unprecedented levels and CO2 emissions associated to building energy usage becoming key to achieve Net Zero target for the UK, acting on HVAC energy efficiency and improving air quality levels inside buildings are the obvious targets. However, most of the existing technologies are acting in silos, some on the management of the HVAC operation to reduce energy consumption, and not on their intrinsic efficiency, other technologies instead are trying to remove/abate pollutants inside individual rooms with additional costs for the building owner/tenants.What we are proposing is a new and innovative approach using our nature-based technology called APA (Air Pollution Abatement) already patented by IGS and extensively tested and validated by third independent parties for the abatement of pollutants indoor and outdoor, which has the unique characteristic to use simple water, no filters no chemicals at all. So far, we have successfully applied APA as a standalone (or in clusters) solution, but not coupled in real-world environment with HVAC systems in buildings.Laboratory tests have proven that APA-HVAC integration is not only possible, but can deliver the two above benefits of energy efficiency and air quality improvements at the same time, with enormous operations advantages as well as economic, environmental and people health benefits, all by applying the same APA water-based technology.How is that possible? APA has the advantage to remove the widest range of air pollutants using simple water, the same water HVAC systems produce by internal condensation process, which today is wasted, instead APA can reuse that water. Moreover, by removing airborne particles before the air goes inside the HVAC filters, APA reduce drastically the inefficiencies and additional energy consumption, due to clogged filters, which can double in less than one year in existing HVAC systems.