Brio 650 · In-room air purifier

A HEPA purifier slows down as its filter fills. Brio 650 charges fine and ultrafine particles, down to 0.01 microns, and pulls them out of the airstream. It keeps 90% or more of its clean air delivery where HEPA units fall to half.

Buy Brio 650 See inside it
  • ASHRAE 241 compliant
  • UL 2998 zero ozone
  • CARB certified
Brio 650 in-room air purifier, a white tower with a dark perforated top and a green air quality light, standing on a black wheeled base

Inside Brio 650

Five parts. One steady airflow.

  1. 01

    Pre-filter

    Air enters through the raised 360° intake. The pre-filter stops visible dust, debris and pet hair.

  2. 02

    Particle charger

    Ionizing wires give fine and ultrafine particles an electrostatic charge.

  3. 03

    APART collection cartridge

    Charged particles leave the airflow and lodge in dense foam plates. They stay there, and the air keeps moving.

    • Down to 0.01 µm
    • 12 months or more
    • 90%+ of CADR held
  4. 04

    Refresh Plus filter

    A catalytic layer reduces ozone and VOCs before clean air returns to the room.

    • Up to 2 years
    • UL 2998 zero ozone
  5. 05

    Vane-axial fan

    Serrated blades, shaped after an owl's feathers, move 510 cubic feet a minute at 53 dB(A).

    • Brushless DC motor
    • 59 W at full speed

The air is clear.

One APART cartridge holds peak performance for 12 months or more. Then it slides out by hand and a new one slides in. No tools.

3D model built to published dimensions. Internal layout simplified.

Sound and energy

Turn it all the way up.

Fan speed

220CFM

Airflow 43%

197CFM

Clean air delivery 58%

39dB(A)

Sound

18W

Power 24% of a 75 W bulb

Airflow, sound and power from the Brio 650 specification sheet. Clean air delivery by speed, the quiet office range and the large-room purifier range are Agentis Air's published figures. Percentages are shares of the speed 4 figure.

0 particles in view0% captured

Performance over time

After 60 grams of dust, still at 90%.

A HEPA filter cleans by forcing air through a mat that clogs by design. Airflow drops as the mat fills, and clean air delivery drops with it. Brio lifts particles out of the airstream and stores them in the cartridge, so the fan is never pushing against a loaded filter.

In dust-loading tests against similarly sized HEPA purifiers, only Brio held 90% of its original clean air delivery rate. Under identical conditions the HEPA units fell to 50% or less.

12 mo+
One APART cartridge at peak performance.
3 to 5
Filter changes a comparable HEPA purifier may need over the same months.
2 yr
Refresh Plus filter life for ambient ozone removal, at most.

Clean air delivery vs dust load

APART filterOriginal mechanical filter
75115155195 020406080 Dust loaded, grams CADR, CFM 90% of starting CADRat 60 g of dust Below 50%at 48 g of dust
Redrawn from Agentis Air's published dust-loading test, which compared an APART filter retrofit with the mechanical filter it replaced in the same unit. CADR in cubic feet per minute.

0.01µm

Smallest particles captured. That is 10 nanometers, too small for standard office HVAC filters.

450CFM

Pollen CADR, measured by Intertek to AHAM/ANSI AC-1. Dust 369, PM2.5 340, smoke 313.

39dB(A)

Sound level at speed 1. Flat out it reaches 53.

1,000sq ft

Cleaned in 20 minutes, the figure Agentis Air gives in its Brio 650 product film.

Quiet by design

Fan blades borrowed from owls.

An air purifier only works while it runs, and people switch off the loud ones. Most large-room purifiers reach 60 to 70 dB(A) at full speed. Brio 650 tops out at 53, inside the range of a quiet office. Every 10 dB(A) less is a tenth of the sound energy.

Comb-like serrations on an owl's feathers scatter the sound of moving air. Brio's vane-axial fan carries the same serrated edges, shaped through CFD modeling, wind tunnel runs and sound chamber tests. APART adds almost no backpressure, so the brushless DC motor works less, and the sound profile has no pure tones.

Read the engineering story

Macro view of an owl flight feather with a comb of fine serrations along its leading edge
The leading edge of an owl's flight feather. Illustrative image.

What it removes

Fifteen things Brio takes out of a room.

Living

  • Viruses and bacteria
  • Mold spores
  • Pollen
  • Dust mite waste

From outside

  • PM2.5
  • Wildfire smoke
  • Ozone
  • Auto exhaust
  • Environmental dust

Made indoors

  • Combustion by-products
  • Cleaning products
  • Printer and copier toner
  • 3D printer ink
  • Microplastics
  • Asbestos fibers

Independent testing

Four independent reports. Read every page.

Clean air delivery

IntertekAHAM/ANSI AC-1

Pollen 450 CFM, dust 369, PM2.5 340, smoke 313. Rapid removal of PM2.5, smoke and ultrafine particles.

Report, PDF

ASHRAE Standard 241

ARE LabsEfficacy and safety

Brio 650 qualifies as an equivalent clean air source for the control of infectious aerosols.

Report, PDF

Zero ozone

ULUL 2998

Validated to emit no ozone. The Refresh Plus catalyst also removes ozone that drifts in from outdoors.

Report, PDF

Virus removal

ARE LabsMS2 bioaerosol

Tested with MS2, a SARS-CoV-2 surrogate. MS2 clean air delivery of 407 CFM.

Report, PDF
  • CARB certified ozone safe
  • UL Listed
  • Conforms to UL 867
  • Patented APART technology

Where it works

Clean air, room by room.

A Brio 650 standing beside a glass-walled meeting room in a bright office

Work

Offices, meeting rooms, reception and break areas

Put clean air where people gather. A unit goes from box to running in minutes, while a full HVAC upgrade takes months of planning.

A Brio 650 beside a bookshelf in a bright, empty classroom

School

Daycare, pre-K and K-12 classrooms

School HVAC was built to protect equipment, and it lets airborne viruses and PM2.5 through. Auto Mode raises the fan as classroom air changes through the day.

A Brio 650 beside an oak sideboard in a sunlit living room

Home

Single and multifamily homes

Wildfire smoke, pollen season, a renovation next door. Auto Mode watches the built-in air quality sensor and responds when the air changes.

A Brio 650 between two armchairs in a bright reception area

Care

Dental practices, clinics and waiting rooms

Dental work puts fine and ultrafine particles into the air that building HVAC was never designed to remove. Brio clears them in the room where they start.

Brio 650, all the way around

Look at it from every side.

Brio 650 breathes in all the way around its raised base and out through the top, so it works in a corner, beside a desk or in the middle of a room.

28in
tall, 71 cm
18.25in
square, 46 cm
50lb
on a wheeled base
  • Service door The cartridge slides out by hand. No tools.
  • Raised 360° intake Air enters from every side.
  • Air quality light The room's air, at a glance.
  • Carry handles One on each side.
  • Wheeled base Roll it between rooms.
  • Top outlet Clean air leaves through the grille.
  • Touch controls Four speeds, Auto Mode, timer, schedule, Night Mode.

For facility teams

Meet ASHRAE 241 without touching the ductwork.

ASHRAE Standard 241 sets clean air targets for the control of infectious aerosols. Independent testing at ARE Labs confirms Brio 650 counts as an equivalent clean air source, so you can reach the target room by room at far lower cost than new HVAC.

Request the clean air calculator

The APART platform

The same physics scales to a whole building.

APART stands for Advanced Particle Removal Technology. Research scientists at the University of Washington's Sensors, Energy and Automation Laboratory developed it, and Agentis Air holds the exclusive license.

HVAC pilot · University of Washington

MERV 15held for six months of operation
50%of the energy of a mechanical MERV 15 filter

The prototype's particle load capacity supported a full year between cartridge changes. Energy efficiency and a safe workplace stopped being a trade.

Air exchanger retrofit

50%lower energy use than the stock filter
2xthe dust-loading capacity

A custom APART filter replaced the mechanical filter in a popular air exchanger. The energy saved paid for a lower power, quieter fan.

Platform patents are owned by the University of Washington and exclusively licensed to Agentis Air, with coverage in the United States, Canada, Europe and Asia. Explore the technology

It is by far, the quietest unit any of us have seen in operation. The noise level is undetectable in our busy office. People stop and look inside to see if the unit is actually running!

Bob M., Brio 650 customer

From the lab notebook

Indoor air, explained.

HVAC

When, where and how to bridge the HVAC clean air gap

HVAC filtration was designed to protect machinery. Pulling fine and ultrafine particles out of a room was never its job.

Read the article

Noise

For a quiet air purifier, ask an owl

A purifier that gets switched off cleans nothing. The three design moves that keep Brio 650 running in a busy office.

Read the article

Ozone

When outdoor ozone becomes an indoor problem

Ozone gets in through open doors, leaky envelopes and ventilation air. HVAC systems do not reduce it.

Read the article

Put a Brio in the room.

Buy Brio 650 Talk to Agentis Air

$1,150 with free shipping at the Brio store.