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 Wealthy casino patrons may soon be protected by a new air purifying system. Tri-Air Developments is licensing a new system that kills viruses and bacteria within minutes according to British inventors.
"Tri-Air has patents in 36 jurisdictions worldwide and prepared the technology for manufacture. We're now negotiating licence partnerships in the hospitals HAI, homeland security, commercial risk management, property and domestic appliance sectors," says Gideon Davenport, CEO of Tri-Air Developments.
The casino industry which makes about $63billion annually worldwide is particularly vulnerable to disease outbreaks since they typically involve closed or semi-closed communities, such as cruise ships or casino halls. Machines are handled by a large number of people in a given day and people are in pretty close proximity to each other so even with regular cleaning disease control can be tough. In 2009 alone at least fifteen cruise liners arriving in U.S. ports were infected with Norovirus.
The new system was recently tested out by the UK's independent Health Protection Agency and the results were very astounding. Analysis showed that the new system took out nearly a hundred percent of all airborne bacteria and viruses, killing 99.999 percent of Staphylococcus in fewer than two minutes.
The company has already begun marketing the technology as a wall-mounted serviced unit under the Cirrus3 brand. The unit will measure about 600 x 300 x 280mm and will be capable of decontaminating and protecting a space of up to 350m³. The smallest unit currently goes about $6,000 annually but they expect to have a new smaller product suitable for spaces up to 50m³ on the market as soon as May of this year.
The new technology combines three different methods of decontamination into one system. Non-thermal plasma, ultraviolet catalysis and hydroxyl radical production work in symphony to simulate the natural purification properties of fresh air.
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