SALIENT FEATURES OF UV LIGHT
Disinfection lamps are used for killing or inactivating the bacteria, viruses and other primitive organisms. UV lamp emits short wave UV radiation with a radiation peak at 253.7nm (UV-C) for germicidal applications.
Applications in Air, Water, and Surface Disinfection are:
- Air disinfection can play an important role in a broad range of applications such as hospitals, schools, offices, industry, (food) retail and museums.
- In medical environments, UV-C can be used to disinfect the surfaces (e.g., floors, walls) of empty patient rooms and other sensitive areas such as operation rooms.
- Waiting and recovery rooms in hospitals and sometimes class rooms in schools may use upper air luminaires for daily disinfection of the air. As air passes through, it gets disinfected and in general achieve reduction of 70-80% of viruses.
- UV systems can be used to disinfect water in a wide variety of applications including drinking water, wastewater, process water, swimming pools and ponds. UV lamps are available in wattages from 4W up to 1000W, allowing you to design disinfection systems for small (liters/min) up to very large municipal installations that use several hundred lamps.
- In air conditioning & HVAC systems, high output (HO) UV lamps will keep the cooling coil free from biofilm. Combined with photocatalytic oxidation they can also removes VCOs such as odors.
- UV-C can be used in the transportation sector to disinfect interior surfaces in between rides. It also has applications in the retail (shopping carts, counters), industry and offices sectors.
- In the food industry, UV -C can disinfect transport belts and packaging materials (yoghurt cups, drinking bottles etc.). It can also be used to directly treat products to increase shelf life and preserve nutritional value (fewer preservatives required).
- In the food industry, UV -C can disinfect transport belts and packaging materials (yoghurt cups, drinking bottles etc.). It can also be used to directly treat products to increase shelf life and preserve nutritional value (fewer preservatives required).
- For plants, it is possible to reduce mold growth or diseases by radiating them directly with UV-C. This helps to reduce the use of pesticides.