Far UV-C radiation: An emerging tool for pandemic control

ER Blatchley III, DJ Brenner, H Claus… - Critical Reviews in …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Far UV-C, informally defined as electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths between 200
and 230 nm, has characteristics that are well-suited to control of airborne pathogens …

[HTML][HTML] A review on indoor airborne transmission of COVID-19–modelling and mitigation approaches

S Rayegan, C Shu, J Berquist, J Jeon, LG Zhou… - Journal of Building …, 2023 - Elsevier
In the past few years, significant efforts have been made to investigate the transmission of
COVID-19. This paper provides a review of the COVID-19 airborne transmission modeling …

The ventilation of buildings and other mitigating measures for COVID-19: a focus on wintertime

HC Burridge, RK Bhagat… - … of the Royal …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The year 2020 has seen the emergence of a global pandemic as a result of the disease
COVID-19. This report reviews knowledge of the transmission of COVID-19 indoors …

A review on applications of CFD modeling in COVID-19 pandemic

F Mohamadi, A Fazeli - Archives of Computational Methods in …, 2022 - Springer
COVID-19 pandemic has started a big challenge to the world health and economy during
recent years. Many efforts were made to use the computation fluid dynamic (CFD) approach …

[HTML][HTML] Airborne and aerosol pathogen transmission modeling of respiratory events in buildings: An overview of computational fluid dynamics

Y Sheikhnejad, R Aghamolaei, M Fallahpour… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Pathogen droplets released from respiratory events are the primary means of dispersion and
transmission of the recent pandemic of COVID-19. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) has …

No evidence of induced skin cancer or other skin abnormalities after long‐term (66 week) chronic exposure to 222‐nm far‐UVC radiation

D Welch, NJ Kleiman, PC Arden… - Photochemistry and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Far‐UVC radiation, typically defined as 200–235 nm, has similar or greater anti‐microbial
efficacy compared with conventional 254‐nm germicidal radiation. In addition, biophysical …

The impact of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning design features on the transmission of viruses, including the 2019 novel coronavirus: A systematic review of …

GM Thornton, BA Fleck, N Fleck, E Kroeker… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Respiratory viruses are capable of transmitting via an aerosol route. Emerging evidence
suggests that SARS-CoV-2 which causes COVID-19 can be spread through airborne …

Modeling of aerosol transmission of airborne pathogens in ICU rooms of COVID-19 patients with acute respiratory failure

C Crawford, E Vanoli, B Decorde, M Lancelot… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has generated many concerns about cross-contamination risks,
particularly in hospital settings and Intensive Care Units (ICU). Virus-laden aerosols …

Inactivation rates for airborne human coronavirus by low doses of 222 nm far-UVC radiation

D Welch, M Buonanno, AG Buchan, L Yang… - Viruses, 2022 - mdpi.com
Recent research using UV radiation with wavelengths in the 200–235 nm range, often
referred to as far-UVC, suggests that the minimal health hazard associated with these …

[HTML][HTML] Eulerian–Lagrangian modeling of cough droplets irradiated by ultraviolet–C light in relation to SARS-CoV-2 transmission

V D'Alessandro, M Falone, L Giammichele, R Ricci - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
It is well known that several viruses, as well as SARS-CoV-2, can be transmitted through
airborne diffusion of saliva micro-droplets. For this reason, many research groups have …