UV Cleaning

• Leave your room - You leave your cruise ship or hotel room and a UV light goes on for 15 minutes and sanitizes your room (including the dreaded TV remote).
• When you dis-embark the ship’s public areas are bathed by its installed bank of FAR-UV lights for 15 minutes to sterilize in preparation for the next set of guests. Quick, hands-free, automatic and based on EXISTING technology.
• WHAT IS IT?
  UV-C & FAR-UV has sufficient strength to inactivate a one cell organism, while lacking the strength to penetrate skin – avoiding the sunburn experience driven by UV-B or cancer concerns associated with UV-A.
  
  UV-C light is already being widely used to sterilize water and air in several in-home applications.

More UV Information – for those interested in learning more.

• UV BULB SUPPLIER ($12.24) - https://www.buylightfixtures.com/germicidal-fluorescent-uv-bulbs.aspx?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI0pOuu42f6AIVVtyGCh0PSwVeEAYYBSABEgID4_D_BwE
• UV HANDHELD https://www.mobileklean.com/en/index.html?fomo=1&Affid=3166&s1=&s2=&s3=&s4=1913&s5=4d8e736d0a7f4834b83cfdb231db3c3a&domain1=www.flrdra.com&network_id=69
• UV 15 min 36W room Unit ($170)- SHZICMY Ultraviolet Germicidal Lamp, UV Ozone Ultraviolet Germicidal Sterilization Light Home Disinfection Light Home Improve Home Light + Remote Controller 36W (US Stock)
• UV 2m2 area light ($45) - https://freshdealshop.com/products/germicidal-uv-light-sterilizer?_pos=1&_sid=a203aea29&_ss=r
• UV Germicidal Light Remote Control Timer 36 Watt Table Lamp Disinfection Air Ozone & Free UVC Light. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B084ZHYHNL/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 by Germicidal lamp
• HEPA CART -SHAWNEE KANSAS - https://www.hepacart.com/customer-project-assessment-form-hepacart-uk?hsCtaTracking=2a109370-c900-4f13-ab38-f1f44b699a89%7C2ce83275-d9f8-478c-8cbc-59987d352a88
• Violet - https://www.fox35orlando.com/video/661520
• Germ Mold Buster, Inc.  -  info@germmoldbuster.com  -  757-460-2653 - $395 UV airborne device.

APPLICATIONS	Applications in use IMAGES
In home Fish Aquariums use it to manage water cleanliness.
CPAP users use it in the form of the popular SoClean hands-free cleaning devices one sees advertise on TV to disinfect their night time breathing aids, instead of having to wash them daily.
MARBLELIFE has used it for several years to assist in our water purification processes for all our MARBLELIFE Cleaners. www.MARBLELIFEPRODUCTS.com
HVAC companies are installing them to pre-clean air.
Personal lamps are available to sterilize a room in 15 minutes with a 33 W unit, or maintain a personal space with an 8W lamp.
Refrigerators employ UV bulbs to extend produce life by eradicating mold and bacteria.

• WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS THAT WE SHOULD CARE?
  • UV-C and FAR-UV have the ability to inactivate one-cell bacteria and virus organisms
  • These systems could be set-up within a building with automated activation to sterilize building areas without the dependence on people doing a “good job” or “missing something.” Lamps are available online today to do this on an individual room basis.
  • Suitable for adaptation and use in HOTELS, CRUISE SHIPS, OFFICE BUILDINGS as a means of augmenting and enhancing interior building health.
  • Can sanitize air and surfaces.
• Technology already exists and is used daily for sanitization of air, water and CPAP surfaces. Need only adapt to building systems.
• FAR-UV has the added benefit of using bulbs employing mixtures of inert gas where-as UV-C bulbs introduce mercury. As such, FAR-UV is expected to be the long term preferred winner, though UV-C is the more common today.
• FAR-UV STERILRAY™ CAUSES THE PHYSICAL DESTRUCTION OF BACTERIA, VIRUSES & SPORES.
• FAR-UV HAS A SHORTER WAVELENGTH & HIGHER PHOTON ENERGY THAN UVA, UVB, OR UVC RADIATION
• FAR-UV DISINFECTION Can achieve 99.99% bacteria kill on surfaces in less than 4 second which is 10x to 1000x better than alternative treatments (according to HepaCart.com)
• FAR-UV systems can disinfect rooms on a daily basis even while people are present.
• FAR-UV is a dry, chemical-free and mercury-free disinfection solution.
• THE FAR UV BAND produces a wavelength that is greater than 10x safer for eyes and skin than UV-C allowing it to be used in the presence of people.
• FAR-UV lamps are recyclable (and mercury-free using inert gases)

As a SCIENCE company MARBLELIFE sees the use of UV light as an area of public interest as we all seek to win-the-war-on-corona. We are presently evaluating its uses within our business. We believe that this represents an area of interest for our hotel and office building engineers to take note of as they seek to create a “healthy building” and “green building” environment.

As UV see greater interest we expect TiO2 use to increase as particular grades of TiO2 in the presence of UV light can catalyze the breakdown of air pollutants, so as UV light potentially sanitizes the air of bacteria, mold and virus, TIO2 coatings can be further purifying Air.

Interestingly the benefits of TiO2 were first noted in papers investigating difference in SAR transmission rates between hospitals in China, which noted that hospitals using tiles that incorporated high levels of TiO2 reported lower transmission rates that hospitals without these tiles.

We believe that ultimately the dramatic mobilization of the human race at this time in history has raised awareness to such a level that the changes in personal behavior, adoption of new cleaning processes, changes in floor treatments and adoption of building saniticization technologies will effect a sea change in building health and population health provided we continue to work together in this war-on-corona.