PurgeVirus - UV Light Disinfection Proven to Kill Covid-19

GREENandSAVE Staff

Posted on Wednesday 8th July 2020
UV light disinfection

Businesses across America and around the world are focused on reopening safely. With recent resurges in cases in some states, businesses are doing everything they can to stay open. To bring office workers back, owners and managers face a complex landscape of options. Purge Virus is an example of a company that helps navigate the landscape. Beyond commercial offices, doctors offices, ranging from dermatology to family practice seek disinfected air, and dental care facilities have some of the most acute needs.  Many other types of facilities like restaurants can also  benefit. For larger size facilities, like hotels, cleaning the coils and the air from within the plenum is the most cost-effective means to disinfect the air and save energy. Their technology isn't only limited to these facilities. They can tailor their services to any business that may have the need for disinfected air from residential homes to university facilities. 

Purge Virus focuses on the integration of UV light into HVAC ducts to sterilize the air and create safer environments for Americans as well as people around the world. The market challenge to date has been the upfront expense of the equipment and the ongoing labor and equipment costs to maintain the systems. Ultraviolet C (UV-C) refers to ultraviolet light with wavelengths between 200 – 280 nanometers (nm). Light in the UV-C wavelength can be used for disinfecting water, sterilizing surfaces, destroying harmful micro-organisms in food products and in air. Purge Virus is developing a range of solutions that include UV-C LED Strip Kits for HVAC ducts to sanitize whole buildings continuously and concurrently with air handling systems. They also offer germicidal UV light devices that are AVAILABLE TODAY and other technologies for air disinfection that are available upon request. Purge Virus is one of the key players that is helping facilities create safe indoor air environments.

According to the US Census Bureau, non-residential real estate in the U.S. adds up to over 87 Billion square feet. America does not have the means or the need to disinfect the air across all of it, but we can focus on the most acute areas. 10% of the areas would be 8.7 Billion. With a budgetary placeholder of $5 to $10 per square foot for installed germicidal air disinfection, the cost would be $43.5 to $87 Billion. While these are large numbers, as U.S. taxpayers, we have committed over $2 Trillion to address COVID-19. The clean indoor air disinfectant cost is less than 5% of the COVID-19 cost, and the investment is a preventive safety measure for future virus outbreaks, just as sprinkler systems help mitigate the spread of fire and save lives. Air disinfection via HVAC systems may become the “new normal” for code compliance for certain property types and areas within facilities.

To learn more about specific disinfection applications visit the 'Property Types' page: UV Light Disinfection by Property Types

To learn more about different technology options visit the 'Technologies' page for UV Light Disinfection Technology

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