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The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), after 40 years of research and practical experiments in the field, still have a challenge to find a satisfactory solution to reduce building energy consumption while maintaining good indoor air quality. Even though HVAC filtration systems seem to be among the best solution for IAQ, they are mostly ineffective for volatile organic compounds and mostly contaminate the air instead of filtering it by infrequently changed filters (Bluyssen, 2003). There is a clear need for the design of a system that can address the IAQ concerns in the buildings and reduce the energy load from the HVAC systems at the same time. Plants can improve IAQ by metabolizing airborne pollutants such as formaldehyde, benzene, and xylene (Wolverton, 1993; Yoo, 2006; Aydogan, 2011). The utilization of the root zone (rhizosphere) of the plant is paramount to achieving high purification ability. In continuation of earlier works of the author (Aydogan and Tardos, 2017), this paper is focusing on the durability of the prototype design, fabrication, and assembly of an alternative filtration system by utilizing plants to clean indoor air and reduce energy consumption.

The Durability of Plant-Based Air Filtering Systems in Buildings: From an Air Quality and Energy Reduction Perspective