How to choose a bactericidal irradiator for the home?

The bactericidal irradiator is a device for disinfection of surfaces and air in rooms by means of an ultraviolet ray. The equipment has names: quartz lamp, bactericidal lamp.

The irradiator is actively used in medical institutions, private homes, apartments and in areas with a large crowd of people. Depending on where the equipment will be used, formally it is divided: household and medical. The lamp is installed on the ceiling or wall. Clinics often use a mobile irradiator due to its mobility. This device is equipped with wheels, which makes it possible to move it from one chamber to another.

Functions of bactericidal irradiator

The use of bactericidal irradiator allows to completely destroy: bacteria, fungi, viruses, mold, spores, yeast and other types of harmful microorganisms. Most often, the device is used as a prophylaxis:

• Viral and bacterial diseases.
• Development of bronchial asthma and streptococcal.
• Seasonal disease.

The appearance of mold and yeast fungi that can cause allergic reactions and asthma.

It is recommended to use a bactericidal lamp in rooms where the sick person is in order to prevent the spread of viral infection. Thanks to the use of an ultraviolet lamp, up to 95% of bacteria and 98% of viruses can be destroyed. It is worth noting that mold and fungi, especially spores, are resistant to ultraviolet radiation, so for their destruction should be disinfected room in a longer period.

Types of bactericidal irradiator

Bactericidal irradiators are divided by design:

1. Open the reflectors, have a bulk structure in which the lamp and reflector, the scattering flux of ultraviolet radiation in the room. This type of equipment allows you to achieve maximum sterility of the room, so popular in medical institutions.
2. Recirculators (closed-type irradiators) have a special design, inside which there is a lamp with low pressure. Along the surface of the device there are holes through which the air is taken from the room. Getting into the air lamp, disinfected and goes back into the room. The equipment is widely used in crowded places, schools, shopping centers and kindergartens.

The difference is that in contrast to the lamp with an open design, during the operation of the closed-type irradiator there is no need to leave the room.

How to choose a bactericidal irradiator for the home?

Selected bactericidal irradiator in several stages:

• First, determine the volume of the room where the device will be installed. Sterility requirements are also calculated. For example, for medical institutions the first category is established, for private houses, offices and apartments – the second, third and fourth.
• The equipment is selected according to the number of installed bulbs.

Understanding the area of the room, and knowing what degree of sterility to maintain it, you can make a simple calculation and choose a bactericidal irradiator.

If you want to install a lamp in a children's room with an area of 18 square meters with a ceiling height of 2.7 m, the volume of the room is calculated: 18 * 2.7 = 48.6 cubic meters. Then you should carefully examine the characteristics of the equipment. For example, the Model 111-115 armed irradiator will destroy 90% of viruses and bacteria in a room of 31-50 cubic meters in seventy minutes. This cleaning belongs to the fourth category and is ideal for living spaces.

Note that many models of bactericidal irradiators have a wide range of colors, which allows you to choose the device for the interior of the room.

How to use the irradiator?

The use of a bactericidal lamp depends on its type. If you use an open-type model, it is necessary that the room was not living beings during her work. 

When using a closed-type irradiator in the room can be people. The lamp turns on for 30 minutes, this is enough to destroy 90% of harmful microorganisms in the air and on the surface.

To achieve maximum efficiency, the bactericidal irradiator is installed 2 meters from the floor level.

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