As the contagious COVID virus continues to mutate into new variants, scientists and researchers pursue their searches to seek out methods to fight the infections. In a current invention, an Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur-backed startup developed an air air purifier which it says can ‘deactivate’ Covid-19 virus in a minute.
AiRTH has collectively developed this Anti-Microbial Air Purifier Technology collectively on the two IIT campuses.
“A expertise named “Anti-Microbial Air Purification Technology”, developed jointly at #IITKanpur and @iitbombay , has proven to be a path-breaking innovation against both air pollutants and the coronavirus,” IIT Kanpur tweeted.
“The expertise, developed by AiRTH, not solely purifies the air however destroys germs, as properly, thereby guaranteeing full safety. Having been examined at CSIR-IMTECH, it has confirmed to have the ability to deactivate SARS-CoV-2 virus with an efficacy of 99.9% inside simply 1 minute,” the tweet added.
Noting that the air purifier deactivates the germs utilizing UV-C irradiation and bombardment with OH radicals such that it’s optimised for increased residence time and depth, Ravi Kaushik, the corporate’s chief government officer, stated “The germs and microbes are captured utilizing coated filters after which destroyed by the OH radicals shaped as a result of strategy of ionisation and steady UVC irradiation contained in the air purifier,” Kaushik added.
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