ABATEMENT TECHNOLOGIES: For Asbestos-Free Air

2007-03-28 16:27:23

( Pharmeceutical-Medical )



Air quality professionals depend on abatement technologies for mitigating asbestos related diseases by providing air filtration systems that help clean construction dusts and debris both in commercial and residential zones.

Asbestos, which was widely used in many products during the 1950s to 1980s, produced major health complications for people who had been exposed to it. Most asbestos related diseases do not appear until ten or twenty years after exposure to asbestos. Some of these are asbestosis, pleural plaques, mesothelioma, and lung cancer.

The health complications from the usage and exposure to asbestos by millions of people led to a series of asbestos litigation cases all over the US.

There are three types of asbestos – crocidolite, amosite, and chrysotile. Among the three, chrysolite accounts for ninety percent of asbestos usage in the US. Asbestos is known for its resistance to heat, fire, and corrosive chemicals, and was widely used for Artex ceilings and garage roofs up until around 1980. Asbestos in Artex ceilings mostly contained traces of chrysolite asbestos.

The problem with asbestos comes from its fibers being inhaled into the lungs. Over time, the fibers from asbestos materials break into much smaller fibers and float into the air to be inhaled easily by users. Cutting or sanding asbestos also lets the fibers float and be breathed in by construction workers and users.

There are ways of solving the problem with asbestos. One of this is encapsulation of its fibers by coating it with paint and/or boxing it. Keeping your surroundings wet when sanding or cutting asbestos will also prevent fibers from floating into the air. Another method is by air filtration and locking the contaminated air.

For more than two decades, Abatement technologies have been providing negative air machines to contain asbestos fibers within the confines of construction zones.

Abatement technologies use tightly-sealed cabinets to prevent the contaminated air from bypassing the HEPA air filters. Every HEPA filter is tested and certified to provide the proper rate of air flow to the work area keeping the site free from contamination due to asbestos fibers.


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