The Power of Ozone: Nature’s Ultimate Odor Eliminator
We don’t claim to be scientists so we wouldn’t dare take you back to chemistry 101 classes, but to keep things simple, almost everyone knows that H2O stands for water and O2 is pure breathable oxygen.
Ozone is O3, also known as “activated oxygen”. That third molecule of oxygen makes ozone the world’s second most powerful sterilizer, capable of annihilating germs, viruses, and bacteria-causing odors.
You know that fresh, clean smell in the air after a summer rainstorm – especially if there has been lightning in the area? Well, that refreshing non-smell is the result of ozone cleansing the air!
Just like oxygen, ozone is a gas, but when that extra oxygen molecule attaches itself to any odor molecule, it changes that odor’s chemical structure, making it a less odorous compound. This is a natural process called oxidation and it is not only efficient by nature, but applying ozone is environmentally friendly, turning back to pure breathable oxygen after converting the stink to clean!
The more ozone you apply to a stinky area, the more the ozone will attack, eventually destroying the odor completely, including truly disgusting and noxious odors like vomit, urine, and human waste; and persistent, penetrating odors like tobacco smoke.
How Ozone Technology Eliminates Odors Safely and Effectively
AutoSanitizing.com uses a couple of different ozone-generating machines and applications. The first and most common method requires either placing an ozone-generator outside the vehicle and running a hose through a partially opened window, into the vehicle; or placing a small ozone-generating unit inside your vehicle with all the windows rolled up.
- The ozone generator unit pulls ambient air (as O2) into the generator using a fan mechanism.
- A filter, much like the air filter on your car or home HVAC system, catches dust, dirt, and even insects from entering the generator’s corona cell.
- The fan continues to accelerate the airflow through the unit until it reaches the high-voltage corona cell mechanism.
- The corona cell mechanism coverts the O2 to ozone (O3)
- A protective stainless-steel grill prevents people from touching the corona cell while it is active, so the units are safe to handle.
- The activated ozone pushes out the other end where it attacks odor molecules and neutralizes them.
The conversion of stinky molecules into pure, clean oxygen continues until the odor is completely gone – and – as long as the original source of the odor has been removed prior to activating the ozone, the odor will not return.
That is why it is so important that AutoSanitizing.com first uses sanitizing steam to remove the bacterial source of the odor and any remnants of that source, as well as to treat the area with anti-bacterial products that ensure that the source (especially mold and mildew) cannot return!
Because ozone turns into pure breathable O2 once it converts odor molecules, no known negative after-effects on humans, from ozone treatments, have been recorded. In an open atmosphere such as a vehicle, ozone is a safe means for purifying the air inside your vehicle!
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