Microbe stunning device for a biological decontamination system
AssigneeAmphion International, Limited
InventorBilly J. Adams
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AssigneeAmphion International, Limited
InventorBilly J. Adams
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Stunning devices that apply a voltage potential across biological organisms to break cell membranes and disable the defense mechanisms of viral organisms in a liquid effluent to ultraviolet radiation, which in a system for reducing biological organisms to non-viable organic molecules along with: a cavitation chamber to physically destroy any remaining membranes of biologicals in the effluent that may play host to viral organisms or allow such to hide therein, the action of the stunning and cavitation chambers releasing cellular contents; and a molecularly implanted stimulated emitter (MISE) chamber in which high levels of ultraviolet radiation are applied to virions and spores that remain at frequencies that are readily absorbed and operate to disassociate any viable DNA and RNA strands remaining, causes "death" of microbes in the effluent. In the stunning devices, the effluent is pulsed through small areas between oppositely charged plates or in smaller embodiments, an outer tube and oppositely charged inner structure constructed to establish high potential field concentrations.
A microbe stunning device for subjecting microbes in an effluent stream to an electric field for use in a system for sterilizing the effluent stream, said device comprising:
The microbe stunning device as defined in claim 7 wherein said apparatus comprises an arrangement to produce an alternating electrical potential in a series of pulses, each pulse being applied at the same time that the finite amounts of effluent fluid are being pumped through said stunning device.
A method of treating viable microorganisms in a fluid stream to break their cellular membranes and disable their radiant energy defense mechanisms comprising the steps of
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