Sanitization Tunnel Using Silver Ion Technology

This paper illustrates the mechanism and importance of a fully automatic disinfection tunnel to decontaminate the external surfaces of the human body like clothes and visible body parts to protect the human body from the COVID-19 virus. These tunnels require less space and are stationed at the entrance of crowded places like airports, shops, offices, schools, hospitals, shopping malls etc. To make the tunnel highly effective against the COVID-19 virus, a two-step disinfection process has been proposed which is not only safe for the human body (unlike using chemicals like sodium hypochlorite solution which causes skin & eyes irritation) but is also cost effective. When a person enters the Chamber 1 of the tunnel, he/she gets exposed to “far-UVC radiations� of wavelength 207-222 nm. In this step the surface disinfection takes place. Once the person enters chamber 2, the fumigation of the disinfectant solution starts. This solution is a dilute mixture of “Silver Ions� and water. Both far-UVC radiations and Silver ion technology are highly effective against the COVID-19 virus and are emerging as reliable source of disinfecting agent replacing the chemicals like sodium hypochlorite which are harmful to both humans & the environment. This study will give the user an insight of both the technologies- far-UVC & Silver ion as well as play an essential role in design and mechanism of the safe disinfecting tunnel and will help in playing an important role in stopping the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as other future pandemics.