UV LED disinfection product prototype now done
Several Gulchers are going to be a Zoom call with me about this on Sunday, 4/25/21 at https://fit.zoom.us/j/4725447207 at 3 PM Eastern, 2 PM Central. All Gulchers are welcome to join.
Some of you know that I have been starting an ultraviolet LED disinfection product we call the VersaTILE to be sold through http://www.chem-freesolutions.com. See https://www.floridatechvirtualshowroo... first for more detail than the company web site has on our current status.
It uses LED's at six different wavelengths to ensure that proteins and DNA are disrupted for all types of pathogens and microorganisms. While you could use it at home, it really is not price competitive with some competitor's UV lamp technology (like PhoneSoap). I look it at step one in a multi-step process.
1) Build a disinfection product.
2) Put it into HVAC systems as a replacement for your UV lamp and eventually modify it so that it can be integrated into a self-disinfecting HVAC filter.
3) Put it in sterilizer boxes of various sizes, such as lots of items touched by students or customers for cleaning lots of items simultaneously.
4) Build a UV photography and photogrammetry system so that we can "visually" document that items are not sterile prior to disinfection and are afterwards.
5) Develop a process in conjunction with partners to reflect enough UV light such that sufficient light gets into the "nooks and crannies" of porous materials (like clothing).
There are a lot more applications for this than are currently on our web site. If interested, contact me at jbrenner@fit.edu.
The video linked in the URL is a senior design video by my Florida Tech students (also Chem-Free Solutions employees). Ultimately this came out of my Basics of Making class. If you have any future John Galts who want to be properly trained, I am kind of like Quentin Daniels (the Utah Institute of Technology professor in Atlas Shrugged). If interested in either my nanotechnology minor or chemical, biomedical, mechanical or aerospace engineering, contact me at jbrenner@fit.edu. I can address the electrical/computer engineers and computer science people, too, but not as well.
Some of you know that I have been starting an ultraviolet LED disinfection product we call the VersaTILE to be sold through http://www.chem-freesolutions.com. See https://www.floridatechvirtualshowroo... first for more detail than the company web site has on our current status.
It uses LED's at six different wavelengths to ensure that proteins and DNA are disrupted for all types of pathogens and microorganisms. While you could use it at home, it really is not price competitive with some competitor's UV lamp technology (like PhoneSoap). I look it at step one in a multi-step process.
1) Build a disinfection product.
2) Put it into HVAC systems as a replacement for your UV lamp and eventually modify it so that it can be integrated into a self-disinfecting HVAC filter.
3) Put it in sterilizer boxes of various sizes, such as lots of items touched by students or customers for cleaning lots of items simultaneously.
4) Build a UV photography and photogrammetry system so that we can "visually" document that items are not sterile prior to disinfection and are afterwards.
5) Develop a process in conjunction with partners to reflect enough UV light such that sufficient light gets into the "nooks and crannies" of porous materials (like clothing).
There are a lot more applications for this than are currently on our web site. If interested, contact me at jbrenner@fit.edu.
The video linked in the URL is a senior design video by my Florida Tech students (also Chem-Free Solutions employees). Ultimately this came out of my Basics of Making class. If you have any future John Galts who want to be properly trained, I am kind of like Quentin Daniels (the Utah Institute of Technology professor in Atlas Shrugged). If interested in either my nanotechnology minor or chemical, biomedical, mechanical or aerospace engineering, contact me at jbrenner@fit.edu. I can address the electrical/computer engineers and computer science people, too, but not as well.
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It is interesting though, that we have never seen covid in the facility and in spite of that they say it's been floating around...or maybe it's not?
Either way, it's a puzzling observation.
Hospital and assisted living facility HVAC systems are likely to be our main market in the long term. In the short term, you could use our VersaTILE to replace the UV lamp in your HVAC, but ultimately we will make more money on this once we integrate it with HVAC filters into "self-disinfecting filters". We are ready to start taking pre-orders now. We have one working prototype and several more that will be ready in a couple of weeks. After that, we will start a serious sales and crowdfunding campaign.
Several Gulchers are going to be a Zoom call with me on Sunday, 4/25/21 at https://fit.zoom.us/j/4725447207 at 3 PM Eastern, 2 PM Central. All Gulchers are welcome to join.
We have pretty much given up on the surface of things do to new studies about how viruses transmitted through the air on dust and other particulates and do not drop down to the ground or flat surfaces as much as we thought. (sorry, should have saved the article)
What have you seen in testing surfaces for viruses...are they there more than in the air?