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Living in Peru
Israel J. Ruiz

A group of Peruvian professionals has created the Urban Air Purifier (UAP), a machine which has been designed to clean air of bacteria, pathogens and other particles which may cause respiratory problems or allergies.

The machine can purify up to 200,000 cubic meters of air per day, which according to the inventors' calculations can provide 20,000 people with healthy oxygen.

Calculations were based on the estimate that an average person breathes approximately 10 cubic meters of oxygen per day.

Jorge Gutierrez, an engineer at Tierra Nuestra - a company that specializes in environmental conservation - explained that the air purifier continuously took in polluted air in urban areas, purified it and released oxygen without germs and less negative ions into the environment.

Furthermore, Gutierrez explained that the air purifier used a natural process to filter polluted oxygen.

By using water, the air filter reduced a great deal of the harmful effects of polluted air.

It was reported that The Urban Air Purifier needs 2.5 kilowatts to run, the same amount of energy required to run an industrial vacuum.

It consumes 60 liters of water for every five hours it is running and it was estimated that the purifier required six soles a day to remain in operation.