Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam is working to improve the air quality around the airport by installing an innovative air filtration system on the apron. The apron of an airport is perhaps the noisiest and most polluted place to work. The airport authority is working to change this through a pilot study using an air filtration system to reduce ultrafine particles on the airport’s apron.
The innovative air filtration system will be installed next to Pier D and is one of the ways in which the airport is working to improve the working conditions for their airport workers.
The air filtration device has been developed by Van Wees Innovations and creates airflows that ensure ultrafine particles clump together to form larger particles that can then be filtered. During this pilot on the apron, the airport will be investigating whether this machine also works indoors.
Last year, Schiphol conducted a successful pilot with this device at a fire station next to the runways. The device cleaned the air almost fully. However, because the building is in use 24 hours a day, with windows and doors being opened, the reduction during the trial came to an average of 75%.
