Humidifiers get a lot of use in baby nurseries. When baby is having a breathing problem due to illness, improving and moisturizing the air will help him/her breathe easier. But, humidifiers are not just for baby.
SAN DIEGO -- RASIRC®, the steam purification company, announced today that it has been awarded a contract from Lockheed Martin to supply RainMaker® Humidifiers for use in humidifying hydrogen and oxygen on an unmanned, high altitude, long endurance airship. The Integrated Sensor is Structure (ISIS) program was awarded to Lockheed Martin in April 2009 by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). RASIRC designs and manufactures products for controlled humidification and ultrapure steam generation for critical manufacturing processes.Very simply, a humidifier puts moisture into the air. This moist air makes it easier for anyone who suffers with allergies, asthma, sinus headaches or swollen nasal passages to breathe. Humidifiers also help prevent dry skin and hair and static electricity in the winter time when the heat is on in the home. Humidifiers can also be beneficial for the home by preventing over drying of wood, peeling of wallpaper, and preventing cracks in drywall and plaster.1. IntroductionIn a recent U.S. decadal survey for Earth observations from space (National Research Council 2007), objectives for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Aerosol-Clouds-Ecosystem (ACE) satellite mission include retrieval of aerosol and cloud property profiles. Here we focus on the proposed retrieval of the number, effective variance, and effective radius of ambient aerosols in the 0.1-1-mm radius range at 500-m vertical resolution with associated uncertainties of 100%, 50%, and 10%, respectively. These definitions represent nominal aerosol retrieval requirements established during ACE mission planning, which are intended for the purpose of better constraining the representation of aerosol-cloud interactions in climate models, to be distinguished from the proposed requirements for the retrieval of other aerosol properties more closely tied to the direct effects of aerosols on the atmospheric radiative budget. The retrieval of ambient rather than dry aerosol size distribution properties is considered to reduce the dependence of retrieval accuracy on collocated atmospheric state profiles that are not measured by the ACE mission (such as relative humidity) and size-resolved aerosol composition.
It is very important that you keep your humidifier clean and follow the manufacturers suggested cleaning schedule.
Author: Kelly Gillis
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