Panama.
An important parliamentary building in Latin America is about to enter its second year of being protected by steril-Aire's C-band ultraviolet emitter technology. UVC emitters are installed in all the air handlers of its new building located in Panama City.
The company assures that this technology has kept the air that heats the entire building and event halls free of mold, virus and bacteria, thus protecting all the delegates of the member states and all the visitors and collaborators who work daily in this prestigious organization and who enter this building.
Additionally, the implementation of UVC emitters in the handlers, which are used from new ones, keep the coil free of biofilm, managing to maintain the efficiency in heat transfer as well as the low electrical consumption of a team just out of the factory. This has a very profound effect on maintenance, as it frees staff from everything they do to manual cleaning of cooling coils, eliminating the use of chemicals by not having to perform this task and in turn giving maintenance personnel much more time to perform other necessary tasks on the premises.
On the other hand, the implementation of UVC emitters also has a profound effect on the Indoor Air Quality of the Parliament premises, since the air treated by the emitters in an installation carried out based on the installation parameters detailed by Steril-Aire is guaranteed to be 99% free of mold, viruses and bacteria. This helps to reduce the symptoms of asthma, allergy and reduces infections all of which have an effect on absenteeism from work, also reducing it and allowing an improvement in production. This applies in the same way to any office that has very high intensity UVC emitters installed.
In Panama this is not the only institution protected by UVC emitters, they are also installed in other government buildings, as well as in several hospitals in the city, thus protecting the health of everyone who visits these institutions.
ASHRAE endorses the use of UVC emitters and supports through a study the notion that a clean coil saves energy.
Overall, ASHRAE position papers recognize the health benefits of using UV-C radiation, as demonstrated in several studies and recognized that the technology is a potentially beneficial option, the use of which should be considered by office/residential building owners, hospitals, hotels, airports, supermarkets, shopping malls, schools/universities, museums, actually any place where air conditioning or refrigeration is used.
