The Advanced Research Centre for Powder Metallurgy along with the Mekins Industries have developed UVC based Cabinet to disinfect COVID-19 patients.
About the Cabinet
- The Cabinet can be used to disinfect items used in commercial establishments and also in day to day life.
Need
- During the early times of COVID-19, India was able to control the spread of the virus successfully.
- However, with the lock down being relaxed in phases, there are possibilities of slow spread of the disease.
- This might happen through surface contamination.
- In order to contain the spread, it is essential to widen the use of disinfection cabinets as the one created by ARCI.
Working
- The Cabinet used Ultra Violet C radiation to disinfect the virus.
- The wavelength of UVC is 254 nm. When the UVC is absorbed by RNA of COVID-19, it leads to molecular structural damage to the virus.
- This is achieved through photodimerization process.
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