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Upper-Room Disinfection
Philips

The Philips Upper Air Disinfection range is unique in that day-to-day tasks can continue safely below, while the UV-C air disinfection continuously works in the background.

Businesses have worked incredibly hard to get back to some sort of normality but adapting in the face of the pandemic is placing a huge strain on all sectors.

An environment where disinfection is quick, efficient and effective, without disrupting the working day, or incurring massive additional costs, needs to be created and there are solutions that can help…

Viruses spread primarily through three vectors:

1. Direct air-borne transmission between people – such as a cough or sneeze

2. Indirect air-borne transmission through air flows – such as circulated air in a building

3. Indirect surface-borne transmission via contaminated surfaces – picking up a contaminated

phone for example

UV-C radiation is part of the spectrum of light and when bacteria, viruses and spores come into contact with it, the light breaks down their DNA, deactivating them. 

Today, businesses are using this principle to build lights that harness UV-C. In fact, recent research conducted by Boston University showed that more than 99 per cent of the virus that causes Covid-19 (SARS-CoV2) was inactivated after just six seconds of exposure to UV-C light sources.

This isn’t actually new technology – it’s been used in hospitals and agriculture for decades and as the world may not return to pre-Covid conditions for a considerable amount of time, UV-C lighting provides a cost effective, time saving way to help keep premises healthy and safe.

For safety reasons, many UV-C products require application areas to be vacated prior to applying the UV-C, or at the very least to have a controls system in place in order to cut out the lighting if someone were to enter the room.

The Philips Upper Air Disinfection range is unique in that day-to-day tasks can continue safely below, while the UV-C air disinfection continuously works in the background.

The Upper Air Disinfection Units are available in wall-mounted and ceiling-mounted versions for taller ceilings, with louvred baffles in place to prevent light leakage below the recommended installation height. 

These units are 'passive', meaning that they disinfect the air in a room via natural convection air flow.

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