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BAE unveils air purification systems for 146, 757

Wednesday September 16, 2009

BAE Systems has teamed up with Quest International UK to offer AirManager, "a radical new active air management system" for aircraft. BAE said it has engineered and certificated the installation of AirManager on its own BAe 146/Avro RJ and has designed and certificated an STC for installation on the 757, "with a trial unit being evaluated." Under the agreement with Quest, it will act as an authorized distributor for sales to airlines of the system for an initial five-year period.

BAE said the system uses "CCFT (Close Coupled Field Technology)--a contained and safe electrical field that eliminates smells and breaks down and destroys airborne pathogens, contaminants and toxins." It initially was developed to serve the health sector in the late 1990s. According to Quest International Director David Hallam, inventor of the technology, AirManager "achieves a single-pass kill rate of 99.999% of bio-hazards and removing particles down to below 0.1 micron. . .equivalent to a single particle of cigarette smoke."

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