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Category: Airborne Viruses

Ultravation Enhances IAQ for Children at The Goddard School for Early Childhood Developement in Ohio

The Goddard School for Early Childhood Development chose the Ultravation Photronic – our multistage total air purification system to disinfect and deodorize the air for their classrooms’ Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) improvement. Here is what the owner, Jim Nerpouni had to say about the Photronic system… Read the rest of this entry »

UV Lamp Air Disinfection

Ultraviolet light to control airborne allergens and microorganisms

Our strategic partner, Philips Lighting, in their article Protecting our world: Philips ultraviolet lamps – for the purification of water, air and surfaces brochure shares with us that  “Air pollution is … a predominant factor in the spread of common diseases such as flu epidemics… ”

Learn how Ultravation’s UltraMAX™, a whole house germicidal UV air and surface disinfection treatment system, can improve the healthfulness of the air in your entire home. UVC light is well known to kill bacteria and viruses. UltraMAX™ features advanced UVC lamp technology to disinfect the air and stop mold growth on HVAC coils and other interior HVAC surfaces.

View Philips’ articles in UV Lamps for purification brochure

UV Purification and Disinfection Applications

uvp_application_imageOur supplier, Philips Lighting, has published a UV Purification Application brochure highlighting how techniques in purification using ultraviolet light (UVC) have benefits of efficiency and energy effectiveness.

View the UV Purification Application brochure

Learn how Ultravations’ UltraMAX uses the natural power of ultraviolet light to control airborne allergens and microorganisms — bacteria, viruses and mold growth on HVAC interior surfaces.

FLU ATTACK! How a virus invades your body

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Here is an interesting and clear depiction of just how a virus, such as the flu, invades the body and how it manages to make you ill.

View video – http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=114075029

Thanks to NPR.org.

UV Airstream Disinfection and Airborne Viruses

UVC is a proven disinfectant and is in use around the world to help reduce the concentration of all types of pathogens suspended in the air.

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View Philips UVC lighting hospital video

Airborne viruses, such as the flu virus, do not differ from other microorganisms in that it is vulnerable to doses of UVC light — just as other germs are, ranging from the “regular” flu virus to the common cold. It is a well accepted technology and has been in use for many years in a variety of public spaces including hospitals. At right is a link to a video clip produced by Philips lighting, the worldwide lighting manufacturer headquartered in Europe—and a strategic partner for us with our own manufacturing—showing the application of UVC lighting for air disinfection in European hospitals.