While the world is racing to find the COVID-19 vaccine, scientists at the University of Houston quickly found a way to trap and kill the coronavirus.
The team at the University of Houston has designed a 'catch and kill' air filter that can instantly kill the coronavirus responsible for COVID-19. Researchers say tests at the Galveston National Laboratory have found 99.8% of the novel coronavirus which caused COVID-19 was killed in a single pass of the filter.
Zhenfeng Ren, director of the Texas Center for Superconductivity at UH, collaborated with other researchers to design the filter, along with Monzor Horani, CEO of the Houston-based medical real estate development firm Medicare. This has been done in a published article. Physics
The researchers knew that the virus could stay in the air for about three hours, which required a filter that could remove it quickly. According to the UH, the resumption of business pressure has hastened the spread of the virus in air-conditioned areas.
Meanwhile, researchers used a hot filter to burn the virus - which can't survive more than 158 degrees Fahrenheit. With a temperature of around 392 F, they managed to kill the virus immediately.
The filter also killed 99.9% of anthrax eggs, according to researchers.
A prototype was developed by a local workshop and the relationship between voltage/current and temperature was first tested in Lin Ren's lab. He then went to the Galston Lab to test his ability to kill the virus. Ren says it meets the needs of traditional heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems.
'This filter can be used to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in airports and in airplanes, office buildings, schools, and cruise ships,' said Anderson Chair, MD of Physics at UH and co-author of the paper.' 'The ability to help control the spread of this virus could be very helpful to society," the statement said'
Ren added that Medicare executives are also proposing a desktop model that is capable of purifying the air in an office worker's immediate environment.
Developers have called for the step-by-step rollout of the device, preferring high priority locations, where the risk of exposure to essential workers increases especially in schools, hospitals, and healthcare facilities. As well as public transport environments such as airplanes.
Hopefully, the developers added, the filter will protect frontline workers in essential industries and allow unneeded workers to return to public places of work. While the world is racing to find the COVID-19 vaccine, scientists at the University of Houston quickly found a way to trap and kill the virus.
The team has designed a "catch and kill" air filter that can eliminate the virus responsible for COVID-19. Researchers say tests at the Galveston National Laboratory have found 99.8% of the novel coronavirus which caused COVID-19 was killed in a single pass of the filter.
Zhenfeng Ren, director of the Texas Center for Superconductivity at UH, collaborated with other researchers to design the filter, along with Monzor Horani, CEO of the Houston-based medical real estate development firm Medicare. This has been done in a published article. Physics
The researchers knew that the virus could stay in the air for about three hours, which required a filter that could remove it quickly. According to the UH, the resumption of business pressure has hastened the spread of the virus in air-conditioned areas.
Meanwhile, researchers used a hot filter to burn the virus - which can't survive more than 158 degrees Fahrenheit. With a temperature of around 392 F, they managed to kill the virus immediately.
The filter also killed 99.9% of anthrax eggs, according to researchers.
A prototype was developed by a local workshop and the relationship between voltage/current and temperature was first tested in Lin Ren's lab. He then went to the Galston Lab to test his ability to kill the virus. Ren says it meets the needs of traditional heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems.
'This filter can be used to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in airports and in airplanes, office buildings, schools, and cruise ships,' said Anderson Chair, MD of Physics at UH and co-author of the paper.' 'The ability to help control the spread of this virus could be very helpful to society," the statement said'
Ren added that Medicare executives are also proposing a desktop model that is capable of purifying the air in an office worker's immediate environment.
Developers have called for the step-by-step rollout of the device, preferring high priority locations, where the risk of exposure to essential workers increases especially in schools, hospitals, and healthcare facilities. As well as public transport environments such as airplanes.
Hopefully, the developers added, the filter will protect frontline workers in essential industries and allow unneeded workers to return to public places of work.
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