About Phytofilter Technologies

WHAT PHYTOFILTER TECHNOLOGIES IS ALL ABOUT

Plants purify the air. They absorb certain airborne pollutants through their leaves, break them down and/or transport them down through their stems and excrete them through their roots systems. Microbes, living on and around the plant roots, break down pollutants as well and turn them into food that the plants than absorb. By using both plants and microbes within an air purification system, airborne toxins, or volatile organic compounds (VOCs), are not only captured but transformed naturally into a useful and harmless substance that the plants remove from the environment.

Mechanical purifying systems on the other hand do one of two things: (1) they trap pollutants within a filter bed or bag that eventually becomes saturated and has to be replaced in a few months or (2) they zap pollutants and the air around them with ions or electrons which causes a change in their molecular structure, turning them into something often more toxic than before.

If an air purification system uses both plants and microbes within it, it has little need of a filter replacement since these living entities digest what is there . Harmful compounds are broken down naturally and utilized, not merely allowed to accumulate. The system requires little or no maintenance. It causes no known health risks to the user. Nor is there much chance of a health risk being discovered at sometime in the future, since nature has been using plants and microbes to purify the air for millions of years. Phytofilter Technologies, Inc is using the power of plants and their root associated microbes to help solve the airborne pollution problems of today--both indoors and out.

Phyto is the Greek word for plants. Plants are nature’s natural purifiers, nature’s natural filters of airborne pollution; hence our name, Phytofilter Technologies, Inc.

Phytofilter Technologies Inc, will soon be manufacturing a variety of products that are designed to eradicate air pollution. First we will address indoor air quality ( America’s Number One Environmental Health Concern according to the EPA, responsible for 50% of the illness in this country) and then we will attend to poor outdoor air as well.

We will produce :
• a small, portable, high-efficiency, plant-based air filter;
• a growth module for plants which automatically waters and nourishes plants with a minimum of upkeep:
• a stand alone, high efficiency, built-in air planter, which takes care of the airborne pollutants in a large single space;
and
• a forced air, built-in, high- efficiency plant purifier, which purifies the air in an entire structure and reduces its energy needs as well.

In addition, we are developing a purification system which combines phytofilter technology with wet scrubber technology to remove pollutants from exhaust gases produced by incinerators, coal burning power plants and other sources so they do not escape into the air. These bio-scrubbers, as we call them, are expected to cost about 1/20th of the cost of a mechanical scrubber and will eliminate the need for a smokestack.

Our firm has received grants from both the Environmental Protection Agency and the New York State Research and Development Agency. Plus, it works closely with Syracuse University’s Center of Excellence.

It’s built-in, high-efficiency, plant air purifier is to be installed in Syracuse University’s new engineering wing at Link Hall in July of 2008 and in the new Syracuse University Center of Excellence building, scheduled for completion the following year. Even those who are working with NASA to build The Infinity Project, at the Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, have asked that the system be placed in their new tourist center.

Phytofilter Technologies Inc. has the exclusive right to use Dr. B.C. Wolverton’s air purification technology. Dr. Wolverton was the scientist who headed NASA’s program for air and water purification at the Stennis Space Center, where he provided invaluable data for long term habitation in outer space and for living in tightly sealed spaces. He received the Federal Environmental Engineer of the Year award and was inducted into the U.S. Space Foundation’s Hall of Fame. He is one of the world’s foremost authorities on air and water purification, using natural processes and has written many articles and books on the subject, including "How to Grow Fresh Air” which has sold more than 100,000 copies and been translated into twelve languages.

This noted scientist has found a solution to the FEMA trailer formaldehyde problem, where unsafe levels of formaldehyde continually off gas into more than 147,000 FEMA trailers provided to victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. .

In 2006 the Sierra Club contacted Dr. Wolverton and had him install his portable high efficiency plant filter into a FEMA trailer. Within a few days it reduced the level of formaldehyde therein from 0.18 parts per million to 0.03 parts per million (a reduction of 83.4%). As a result, the FEMA trailer was made safe for human habitation.

Phytofilter Technologies works with nature and not against it to solve the world’s airborne problems. Through its use of plants, it epitomizes what going green is all about. Phytofilter technology has even improved on nature, by enhancing a plant’s power to purify the air by more than a hundred fold. The firm’s products lower energy needs, reduce pollution, and increase our feeling of well being. They reduce stress and bring us peace of mind.

Phytofilter Technologies, Inc. takes a holistic approach to the airborne problems of the world.