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PTAC Units: A Packaged Terminal Air Conditioner is a type of self-contained heating and air conditioning system commonly found in: Hotels – Motels – Senior Housing Facilities – Hospitals – Condominiums – Apartment Buildings – Add-on Rooms & Sunrooms.
Business owners and homeowners face increasing challenges with COVID-19 to adequately disinfect rooms and promote safety in Maine
We are pleased to provide the information below from Purge Virus regarding their offerings for PTAC Disinfection.
The Purge Virus team provides multiple solutions that include UV light, Photoplasma, and Bipolar Ionization. The Bipolar Ionization solutions have been well received, because in addition to helping to prevent the spread of COVID-19, they also remove odors from sources such as tobacco and cannabis.
PURGE VIRUS DOESN’T MAKE PTAC UNITS…THEY RETROFIT THEM TO DISINFECT INDOOR AIR.
For Purge Virus to match the available technology to your in-room HVAC systems, you can let them know the manufacturer’s name and model # of your PTAC Units. From there Purge Virus will provide you with a free assessment of the most applicable solution. The average cost of equipment and installation per room is coming in at $550-$650. Purge Virus also offers zero upfront cost financing over 3-5 years. The monthly cost can be as low as $10 per month per room.
Learn more about Bipolar Ionization here: Bipolar Ionization
For some business owners and homeowners, portable devices may make the most sense for small lobbies or in certain rooms. Learn more about Potable Disinfection Devices here: Portable Devices
Purge Virus can help you navigate the complexity of disinfection choices: CONTACT PURGE VIRUS
NEWS on COVID-19 in Maine: Maine’s Extremely Detailed Vaccine Distribution Plan Involves Lobster Ice
“We began planning for COVID-19 vaccine distribution—in theory and in concept—back in mid-April. We already had in the state of Maine a robust mass vaccination plan that was developed and executed and revised from our H1N1 experience 9½ years ago. We started looking at our existing H1N1 mass vaccine plan to determine what should stay and what should go in light of what is known about COVID-19. For example, back during H1N1, there were these mass vaccination clinics with people lined up, and you don’t do that with COVID. The last thing you want to do is to create a situation that could become a superspreader event. The planning process really ramped up in June/July, when we started getting a timeline as vaccines were going into clinical trials.
We did a couple of things for freezers. The first thing we did was we ordered freezers. We spent about $12,500 ordering two massive freezers for our central warehouse. The second thing is back in September we did a needs assessment and needs inventory, so we already knew where in the health care system there were existing ultracold freezers. The third thing we did was put up a call for assets. We put out a call to say, “If you are a university, for example, who has excess ultracold storage space, we would just like to know for our planning purposes.” It turns out that there are communities that don’t have hospitals in them, but for whatever reason they’ve got a community college that has an ultracold freezer. When we get to community-level vaccination, one concept of operations is that we can store vaccines at, say, a community college and keep it ultracold, and then set up a vaccine site around that community college.
As to dry ice, one of the principal uses for dry ice in the United States is the packaging of seafood. The lobster industry is a large consumer of dry ice for their shipping and packaging. So dry ice is big in Maine, and we do not anticipate challenges with dry ice.”
