What is Bipolar Ionization?

Bipo­lar Ion­iza­tion and the STERIONIZER™

Bipo­lar Ion­iza­tion is a process in which the decom­po­si­tion of gas mol­e­cules into atoms is effected by the aid of high energy sources. The nat­ural source for this high energy is UV solar radi­a­tion and soil radioac­tiv­ity. This decom­po­si­tion process assures that there will always be bipo­lar Air Ions (AI) within the breath­able atmos­phere in our nat­ural envi­ron­ment and, unfor­tu­nately, also that in an enclosed, indoor envi­ron­ment, ions may not exist at all.

The decom­po­si­tion of a mol­e­cule into atoms is accom­pa­nied by the gen­er­a­tion of free elec­trons. A mol­e­cule with a free elec­tron attached to it is called a neg­a­tive ion, while a mol­e­cule lack­ing an elec­tron is called a pos­i­tive ion. The air ion­iza­tion process is always accom­pa­nied by gen­er­a­tion of ozone (O3) owing to the inte­gra­tion of oxy­gen (O2) mol­e­cules with oxy­gen (O) atoms — O2 + O = O3. The STERIONIZER™ ion­iza­tion mod­ule restores and rebal­ances these ion lev­els within indoor, closed envi­ron­ments, where UV solar radi­a­tion and soil radioac­tiv­ity are unavailable.
STERIONIZER™ Bipo­lar Tech­nol­ogy — Long Life, Unlim­ited Applications

The STERIONIZER™ bipo­lar ion­iza­tion mod­ule is a high tech­nol­ogy device ser­vic­ing the bi-polar ion­iza­tion field that owes its unique fea­tures to its out­put flow sta­bi­liza­tion capa­bil­ity (enables long life with­out ser­vice) and a diag­nos­tic capa­bil­ity that sup­plies data to the com­puter or indi­ca­tor about any prob­lems the unit may have. The STERIONIZER™ is char­ac­ter­ized with a very low level of ozone (neg­li­gi­ble) which makes it vir­tu­ally unlim­ited in its appli­ca­tion fields.
Low Ozone Levels

The impor­tance of keep­ing a low level of ozone can be illus­trated through the exam­ple of the use of an ion­izer inside a room ver­sus inside a car. Devices that are designed for room level ozone gen­er­a­tion are not suited for a car. This phe­nom­e­non is best illus­trated by com­par­ing the inte­rior size of a room to that of a car. In a case where the ozone quan­tity inside a room is accept­able, the inte­rior of a car, which is 5 to 10 times smaller in size than a room, would suf­fer from an ozone con­cen­tra­tion 5 to 10 times higher — clearly exceed­ing ozone safety stan­dards.
Ion Gen­er­a­tion and Level Stabilization

Human sense organs are unable to per­ceive pos­i­tive and neg­a­tive air ions in the air that we breathe, because ions are not appar­ent by using either sight or smell. There­fore, the prob­lem of indi­cat­ing and con­trol­ling the gen­er­a­tion process and the sta­bi­liza­tion of the out­put lev­els of ions becomes highly impor­tant — espe­cially due to the fact that ion gen­er­a­tion processes vary with tem­per­a­ture, humid­ity, elec­trode con­t­a­m­i­na­tion, and when dust is present in the air. This is only one of the extremely spe­cial­ized areas in which the unique STERIONIZER™ tech­nol­ogy excels.