Eleminair: an innovative system for elevator cars

Due to the coronavirus, elevators have become a bottleneck in vertical transport in buildings. Elevators are compact and often crowded spaces that are barely ventilated. Long waiting times are caused by limiting use to one or two people.

Quake developed the solution together with Interland Techniek. Eleminair is an innovative system for elevator cabins. A safe and clean indoor climate is guaranteed by means of air exchange and cleaning. ABT came up with the basic idea and approached Interland, supplier of ventilation and air treatment equipment. The concept was jointly developed into a market-ready product. Not only is the air cleaned, but airflow from the ceiling also prevents droplets from being transferred from person to person. Clean air is constantly supplied at the breathing height of the passengers via a diffusing ceiling containing a HEPA filter. The air is changed more than 300 times per hour. The exhaled air of the users is pushed to the lower part of the lift. This air is extracted just above the floor.

Extensive tests prove that in this way elevator passengers can always breathe fresh and clean air, even if they are closer than one and a half meters to each other. The concept, the so-called unidirectional downflow system, is new. The various prototypes have been extensively tested at HC Groep in Waalwijk.

Eleminair is a closed circuit, tailor-made, without interventions on the cage construction. Re-inspection of the lift is therefore not necessary. The quality assurance is currently described in a BRL assessment guideline, which makes it possible to supply the system under a KOMO innovation certificate. With Eleminair, lifts in offices, residential complexes, hospitals and other buildings can be used normally again.

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