DRDO Develops UV Disinfection Tower For Keeping Airports And Malls COVID-19 Safe
The tower is called UV Blaster, and it is helpful for disinfecting surfaces that cannot be cleaned with liquid solutions.
With COVID-19 completely taking over our world, researchers are working on ways to make our post-COVID-19 life better -- either by developing vaccines to save our body from it or ways of disinfecting to prevent it from spreading further.
Last week, we saw the Indian army develop a cool robot wagon that could allow delivery of essential items in isolation wards and prevent contraction of the novel coronavirus.
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And now, India¡¯s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has developed a UV disinfection tower that is designed to disinfect high-infection-prone surfaces without the need for any chemicals.
The tower is called UV Blaster, and it is helpful for disinfecting surfaces that cannot be cleaned with liquid solutions/ chemicals such as electronic gear in laboratories, computers, etc.
Similar to what an air-purifier does in a closed space, the UV Blaster will prove beneficial for office spaces, airports or malls where one sees a large frequency of people, preventing them all from contracting and spreading the novel coronavirus by emitting healthy UV radiation.
DRDO UV Tower specs and features
The device looks nothing like you¡¯ve seen before. It¡¯s a long structure with six UV lamps placed vertically in a circular pattern. Each one of the six UV lamps features 43 watts of UV-C power at 254nm wavelength. Its design allows for the disinfection of germs to happen on all sides, in a 360-degree fashion.
The device is around 12x12 feet in dimension and it takes around 10 to 30 minutes for the disinfection process to completely cleanse a 400 square kilometre area. The idea is to install several of these indoors to keep the areas clean. The device is smart and can be controlled remotely using the Wi-Fi network.
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This UV tower has been developed by Laser Science and Technology Centre (LASTEC), the Delhi-based laboratory of DRDO in collaboration with M.s New Age Instruments and Materials Private Ltd.
