Enhancing HVAC Systems with Advanced In-Duct Air Sanitization Technology
Our innovative flux capacitor technology can be integrated into ducted HVAC systems, offering significant improvements in indoor air quality. The image showcases two versions of this technology, designed for 4-inch and 6-inch duct types, respectively.
Key Technological Insights:
Scalable Designs:
Our in-duct air sanitization systems can be scaled within a range to meet specific flow rate goals, making them adaptable to various HVAC configurations and requirements.
Optimized Photon Density:
Achieving suitable levels of photon density is critical for effective air sanitization. This is accomplished by maintaining a relatively small cavity diameter. Larger diameters result in a significant reduction in photon density due to the natural one over R squared fall-off of optical intensity. This not only decreases photon density near the cavity walls but also reduces the reflective contributions to the overall photon density within the device.
Effective Pathogen Exposure:
The accumulated exposure of pathogens within the device is determined by both the photon density and the duration of time the pathogen remains within the cavity. This necessitates a limitation on the cubic feet per minute (CFM) that the device can process to ensure effective sanitization.
Our advanced in-duct air sanitization technology provides a powerful solution for enhancing HVAC systems, ensuring cleaner air and healthier environments. We invite interested parties to explore licensing opportunities, allowing this innovative technology to be implemented across a wide range of applications, thereby improving air quality and public health on a larger scale.
HVAC Integration
In new and some retrofit opportunities, the concepts of clean airflow patterns can be integrated into components of a traditional HVAC system.
In the image, bypass valves are controlled to enable a “recycling” of the air during conditions of occupancy and more generally to sanitize the resident air in the room on a somewhat continuous basis.
Supply and return ducts are designed to promote the desired air pattern for a particular interior space. In this example a clean air column would descend to the central region of the conference table providing all occupants seated at the table with the most recently treated cleanest air in the room.
Any emitted pathogens would follow the air flow away from all others seated at the table. When the room requires intervention the HVAC return receives sanitized air thus reducing the probability of one room infecting another.
Controlled Environment Agriculture
Two primary factors of CEA are the energy usage to produce a crop and the crop yield due to losses relating to plant pathogens.
Flux capacitor Intergration into the HVAC system in a manner similar to that described above and shown as an array in the image, provides the opportunity for discharging hot Oxygen rich air from the room replacing it with sanitized cool CO2 balanced outside air thus creating a significant cost savings.
The concepts of controlled air flow from above the growth canopy to near the floor return designs enables greatly reduced “dead air” locations within the plants. These zones of stagnate air are often locations for pathogen outbreaks.
A further benefit is the reduction of employee illnesses from plant pathogen sensitivity. Staff tending the plants would generally be in the cleanest air flow within the interior volume. Inter-staff transmissions would be reduced due to reduced accumulation from a shedding staff member.