Steam Humidification Systems
Dry indoor air is more than just an inconvenience. It’s a threat to the health and comfort of your family —as well as your budget.
During the winter months, the combination of cool, outdoor air and forced furnace heat can cause your home to be drier than the Sahara Desert. If you experience dry air in your home, it’s more than just a nuisance. Low relative humidity can make you more susceptible to catching a cold. And flu viruses have been linked to speedier progression and transmission in dry air.
A whole-home steam humidifier can help. Installed as part of your home’s heating and cooling system, it automatically delivers the perfect amount of humidified air, not just to one room, but throughout every room of your home.
Steam humidification systems are the best and perhaps only choice/solution for being able to hold the 40%-60% relative humidity recommended by the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in our homes and businesses.
How It Works
A steam humidification system has its own heating element which boils the water to steam. Pure water vapor is released into the space, carried by a blower system of some type, and any minerals or impurities remain in the steam canister, and are drained away later. Since steam humidity is a vapor “it takes the shape of its container”, and fills the entire space at the same humidity level.
The AprilAire whole-home steam humidifier adds moisture to your home by passing steam through a dispersion tube connected to your duct system. The steam is created by heating water in an internal canister.
Features & Benefits
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Humidification Systems Can Reduce the Risk of Infection
The American Society of Heating, Refrigeration, and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) and the CDC have stated that “there is sufficient evidence that pathogen survival rates are much lower when relative humidity (RH) levels are maintained between 40%-60% RH. The primary effect on pathogens at these RH levels is that the risk of infection is reduced.”
Colds and flu, like other airborne viruses, are passed through droplets. These droplets get into the air by sneezing, talking, coughing, singing, crying, and breathing. There’s no way of preventing these colds and flu droplets from getting into the air. It’s more about what you do with them once they are there.
Controlling humidity helps with the size of the droplets. Smaller droplets can hover in the air and can recirculate easier. Larger droplets fall to surfaces so by washing your hands and cleaning surfaces you can help prevent colds and flu droplets from passing to other members.