UV Air Curtain

Isolation and sanitation of contaminated areas

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Inspiration

Full surface cleaning is difficult and it is not effective if the surrounding air is not sanitized.

Emergency rooms can’t be sealed off, patients in intensive care units can’t be evacuated or moved easily. Hospital staff can’t keep new patients in different isolated zones all the time, while those areas are being fully sanitized.

For this reason, these highly contaminated areas can lead patients and medical staff to illness and possibly death. Daily and hourly clean up procedures will not avoid people from being contaminated in crowded and closed spaces. Also, during working hours some business cannot be evacuated while disinfection occurs.

Similarly, airports, restaurants, hotels, schools, public transports, elevators and other activities that gather a considerable number of people, will be forced to change their routines and learn to get along with viruses.

They might, however, be kept at a fairly decontaminated level with moderate expense, reducing risks and - possibly - the need to wear protective suits and masks.

Please let us share our ideas to help the fight against Covid19.

Challenge

Viruses spread easily and are difficult to detect in open spaces and on surfaces. Cleaning is difficult, time-consuming and many times not effective. It could even be a waste of time to clean up surface, when the environment is contaminated.

What the product does

Provides a mean of sanitizing and isolating confined spaces and rooms around the world, allowing businesses to bring back their services under a new world scenario to support our lives.

How it works

Our product captures contaminated air in the environment, treats it with ultraviolet type C in a protected area within our device, cleaning viruses (97%) and returning the air to the environment in the form of an air curtain. This sanitized air flow isolates the area and retains the contamination in the source room.

Scientific References

  • Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation Handbook - UVGI for Air and Surface Disinfection – By Wladyslaw Kowalski, 2009
  • Safety of Upper-Room Ultraviolet Germicidal Air Disinfection for Room Occupants: Results from the Tuberculosis Ultraviolet Shelter Study – By Edward A. Nardell, MDa Scott J. Bucher, MAb Philip W. Brickner, MDb Charles Wang, BAb Richard L. Vincent, BScb Kathleen Becan-McBride, EdDc Mark A. James, PhDd Max Michael, MDe James D. Wright, PhDf, 2008
  • Virucidal Short Wavelength Ultraviolet Light Treatment of Plasma and Factor VI11 Concentrate: Protection of Proteins by Antioxidants - By Sing Chin, Bolanle Williams, Paul Gottlieb, Henrietta Margolis-Nunno, Ehud Ben-Hur, John Hamman, Rongyu Jin, Edward Dubovi, and Bernard Horowitz, 1995
  • Far-UVC light: A new tool to control the spread of airborne-mediated microbial diseases – By David Welch,* Manuela Buonanno, Veljko Grilj, Igor Shuryak, Connor Crickmore, Alan W. Bigelow, Gerhard Randers-Pehrson, Gary W. Johnson & David J. Brenner Scientific Committee on Health, Environmental and Emerging Risks SCHEER - Opinion on Biological effects of UV-C radiation relevant to health with particular reference to UV-C lamps, 2017
  • UV-LEDs for the Disinfection and Bio-Sensing Applications – By Wan-Sik Won, Le Giang Tran, Woo-Tae Park, Kyoung-Kook Kim, Choongsoo S. Shin, Namkeun Kim, Young-Jin Kim and Yong-Jin Yoon, 2018
  • UVC LEDs for Disinfection, 2014


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