To help inform our air purifier picks, we gathered 14 of the most popular models at the CNET Labs product testing facility in Louisville, Kentucky, where we put them through a rigorous set of tests. Our goal was to determine which air purifiers offered the best performance in terms of particle removal efficiency, energy consumption and quietness, while also evaluating their respective feature sets and value.The particle-removal testThe air we breathe isn’t just air. In truth, it’s a combination of human-generated and naturally occurring particles. The former is composed mostly…