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Cabin Air Technologies, LLC Introduces the Cabin Air Purifier. Trunk version with armrest serving as clean air duct. Opening above armrest allows air to be pulled from cabin into purifier in trunk. Portable Cabin Air Purifier in the center of rear seat. What is the Technology?.
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Cabin Air Technologies, LLCIntroduces the Cabin Air Purifier Trunk version with armrest serving as clean air duct. Opening above armrest allows air to be pulled from cabin into purifier in trunk. Portable Cabin Air Purifier in the center of rear seat
What is the Technology? • Portable Cabin Air Purifier to operate inside a variety of motor vehicles • Highly effective for capturing toxic gases • Highly effective for capturing fine particles: • Bacteria (e.g. anthrax) -- Heavy Metals -- Asbestos • Viruses (e.g. small pox) -- Diesel Soot -- Smoke • Radiation particles -- Sulfates, Nitrates • Long lasting – packed beds of adsorbent filter media and HEPA filter do not require frequent replacement • Versatile – can be quickly adapted to target specific contaminants • Unobtrusive – flexible placement; does not obscure vision or movement of personnel
How is the technology secured? • International patent # PCT/US01/04241 • Preliminary Examination Report found all claims meet patent requirements for novelty, inventiveness and industrial applicability. • National stage patents pending in: * USA * All European Region Countries * Mexico * Canada * India * Singapore * China * Japan
Commercial application targets • 1. Health-conscious commuters who want protection from lung damaging and carcinogenic air pollutants • 2. Emergency response workers, local, State and Federal • 3. Niche markets: Police vehicles, limousines, rental cars, hospital and nursing home rooms
Development Status • What’s done: • Extensive research and development on basic and specific filtration methods • 4 different models of prototypes built • Successful field testing on congested and highly polluted highways • What’s left to do: • Commercialization • Laboratory testing on agents of biological, chemical, and radiological warfare • Field testing in military simulations
Test Results • Passengers confirmed Cabin Air Purifier’s effectiveness with subjective rating system • Toxic gases dramatically reduced (summa canister capture & analysis by independent lab) • Fine and gross particulate matter dramatically reduced (real time DataRAM monitor in vehicles) • All air pollutants reduced sufficiently to meet government ambient air health standards
PM-10. 5 m³/min (176 CFM). Bangkok, Thailand, 14 March, 2000
Benzene. 7 m³/min (250 CFM). Los Angeles, September 1, 2000. EPA Method TO-14A
How Can Cabin Air Purifiers help the DoD? • Protect military and emergency response personnel from hazardous airborne contaminants in vehicles and other enclosed structures: • Mash Units APCs Tanks Ambulances Helicopters • Command Posts at Disaster Sites • Ready rooms on Aircraft Carriers • Filter media in Purifier quickly modifiable to meet specific pollutants unleashed in attack • Portability of Purifiers enables existing military vehicles to serve also as “Clean Air Shelters”
Wartime Air Pollution Kuwait Oil Fires of 1991 http://www.fortunecity.com/oasis/niagara/37/kuwait3.html
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR FROM DoD • Type of military vehicles to be outfitted in priority order • Testing labs where prototypes are challenged with pollutants selected by military • Funding for necessary research and development
Contact Informationfor technical and contractual follow-up Marie D. Lindsay Telephone: (503) 579-4931 CEO, Manager Fax: (503) 579-4330 8905 SW 149th Place ceo@cabinairtech.com Beaverton, OR 97007 www.cabinairtech.com