Ultraviolet air purifying system and method
AssigneeViggiani and Associates
InventorMichael A Viggiani-Nunes
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Abstract
A method includes receiving, by at least one processor, realtime data associated with airflow in a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system from at least one sensor device, comparing, by the at least one processor, the realtime data from the at least one sensor device with a particular value for each sensor, operating, by the at least one processor, at least one ultraviolet C (UV-C) lamp device in the HVAC system, purifying air in the HVAC system using the at least one UV-C lamp device while confirming, by the at least one processor, that the realtime data from the at least one sensor device is within a particular threshold of each particular value for each sensor, and supplying clean, disinfected air to the airflow in the HVAC system.
Claims10
A method comprising:
- receiving, by at least one processor, realtime data associated with airflow in a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system from at least one sensor device;
- comparing, by the at least one processor, the realtime data from the at least one sensor device with a particular value for each sensor device;
- operating, by the at least one processor, at least one ultraviolet C (UV-C) lamp device in the HVAC system;
- purifying air in the HVAC system using the at least one UV-C lamp device while confirming, by the at least one processor, that the realtime data from the at least one sensor device is within a particular threshold of each particular value for each sensor device, wherein the at least one UV-C lamp device is operated based on an equation associated with UVGI removal rate comprising RR=1−e-klmEt, wherein RR is equal to removal rate, k is a UV rate constant in m2/J, Im is mean irradiance, and Et is exposure time in seconds;
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- supplying clean, disinfected air to the airflow in the HVAC system.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by at least one computing device cause the at least one computing device to perform operations, the operations comprising:
- receiving realtime data associated with airflow in a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system from at least one sensor device;
- comparing the realtime data from the at least one sensor device with a particular value for each sensor device;
- operating at least one ultraviolet C (UV-C) lamp device in the HVAC system;
- purifying air in the HVAC system using the at least one UV-C lamp device while confirming that the realtime data from the at least one sensor device is within a particular threshold of each particular value for each sensor device, wherein the at least one UV-C lamp device is operated based on an equation associated with UVGI removal rate comprising RR=1−e-klmEt, wherein RR is equal to removal rate, k is a UV rate constant in m2/J, Im is mean irradiance, and Et is exposure time in seconds;
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- supplying clean, disinfected air to the airflow in the HVAC system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.