How Buy Best Room Air Purifiers Online in India for Home

The air quality in India is getting worse, especially Post-Diwali. Diwali is a festival meant to be celebrated with lights, however, crackers have made it more chaotic than exuberant. And major cities in India have started to look like an apocalyptic landscape. But even outside of these cities, and all through the year, the air quality across major cities of India has been highly deteriorating. 

There are a lot of different reasons for this - rapid construction of the cities, and the widespread destruction of trees this involves, the huge number of cars, burning crop stubble in farms, burning trash in cities, and also, the burning of crackers, all come together to make our cities unliveable. And while there might be some long-term solutions to these problems, the fact is that just as most of us have gotten used to living with water purifiers in our homes, it seems we are going to have to accept Air purifiers in India too.

Indoor air quality can actually be worse than the air outside. WHO states that benzene, carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, naphthalene, nitrogen dioxide, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (especially benzo[a]pyrene), radon, trichloroethylene, and tetrachloroethylene have indoor sources, are known for their hazardousness to health and are often found indoors in concentrations of concern to health. So should you invest in an air purifier?

HEPA filter

The problem is that, as consumers, we don't really know enough about these products to make a good decision when it's time to buy one. Go online, and you'll see any number of products on offer, from ionizers that release charged particles to separate the dust from the air to humidifiers and other similar products that claim they will improve the air quality by pushing the dust out of the air, and air filters that work like a water purifier, in that it sucks in the air from the room, push it through a filter, and pushes clean air out. These use High-Efficiency Particulate Air (HEPA) filters (or HEPA-type filters in cheaper models), and are used in hospitals as well - most people recommend avoiding ozonizers and ionizers.

We'd go a step further and suggest considering only using purifiers that have a HEPA filter, not a HEPA-type filter, since HEPA is a standard which is tested and certified, so it ensures that you're getting something that actually works. Eureka Forbes is well established in air purification in India, and it has been in the air purifier market for a couple of years now.

A lack of standards

Looking for a genuine HEPA filter is one of the ways that you can get around the lack of standards for air purifiers in India. Today, you could slap a filter and a fan together and sell it as an air purifier - in the US and in China there are several stringent standards and testing that is done to ensure that air purifiers up to the standards, but this is missing in India.

What else should you check?

Aside from ensuring that the air purifier has a genuine HEPA filter and that it filters out PM2.5 particles at a high CADR - so that the air in the room is being continually cleaned - there are a few other things you should keep in mind. The CADR shows you how much air is coming out of the purifier and it should change the air in the room at least five times per hour. Otherwise, you're not going to be breathing clean air.

Customers in India like to compare specs a lot, but this is one product where I don't think that's actually a great idea. You should focus on how transparent the brand is being, like when it gives you indicators about clean air, so you actually know what the purifier is doing. Look at things like the cost of the filter, and how easy that is going to be to replace. Look for smart features, by which I don't just mean convenience, but smart like automatically adjusting the filter based on the air quality, and sending you an alert to change the filter.

One more point that has to be considered is to make sure that the purifier comes with a warranty and offers good customer service and easy replacement of filters.