Development of a novel Industrial Air Sanitiser (IAS), to significantly reduce incidence of workers from passing on illnesses (including but not limited to COVID-19) and improve indoor air quality

BPP-Tech拥有超过37年的工程经验，始终如一地为客户提供创新。在2019冠状病毒病大流行期间，他们开发了一种空气质量消毒剂（AMS），该消毒剂能够持续消毒占用率高的小型室内空气空间（如全科医生手术室），以破坏SARS-CoV-2和其他病原体，以降低感染风险。大多数专家现在都认为，SARS-CoV-2的主要传播（与大多数呼吸道病毒一样）是通过空气中的飞沫/空气传播的病毒颗粒，特别是在拥挤/通风不良的空间中。AMS现在正处于商业化的边缘，并将支持公共卫生干预工作（疫苗接种/屏蔽/跟踪和追踪），以帮助经济恢复正常，并防范新的病毒株和未来的流行病。该项目将在这项工作的基础上开发一种“工业空气消毒剂”（IAS），其目标是更大容量的空间（如工厂、大型餐厅、电影院、博物馆和室内农场），以实现非常高水平的病毒杀灭，既针对SARS-Cov-2，也针对其他问题病毒（如影响鸟类并通过人畜共患病突变威胁人类的禽流感）和其他未知病毒株。《国际空气准则》还将设计用于旨在显著改善室内空气质量的非流行病应用，室内空气质量是损害人类健康、疾病、过早死亡和工作场所疾病的一个重要原因。不幸的是，室内空气的污染程度可能是室外空气的2-5倍（由于缺乏稀释），这意味着如果室外的花粉数量或空气污染率很高，那么室内的污染程度可能会明显更糟。开发IAS将需要对AMS系统进行重大而彻底的重新设计，以便在更大的室内空间中实现所需的空气流量。这将涉及广泛的实验室测试，计算流体动力学（CFD）建模，原型构建和重新测试，以确保良好的设计。如果成功，这将为BPP-Tech带来可观的收入，并在东北地区创造大量制造业就业机会（在BPP-Tech和整个供应链中），以扩大生产规模以满足需求。

BPP-Tech brings over 37 years' engineering experience, consistently delivering innovation to its customers.During the COVID-19 pandemic, they developed an Air Mass Sanitiser (AMS) which has the capability to continuously sanitise small indoor air spaces with high-occupancy rates (such as GP surgeries) to destroy SARS-CoV-2 and other pathogens to reduce the risk of infection.Most experts now agree, primary transmission of SARS-CoV-2 (like most respiratory viruses) is through respiratory droplets/airborne viral particles in the air mass, particularly present in crowded/poorly-ventilated spaces. The AMS is now on the brink of commercialisation and will support public-health intervention efforts (vaccination/shielding/track-and-trace) to help the economy return to normal and safeguard against new virus strains and future pandemics.This project will build on this work to develop an 'Industrial-Air-Sanitiser' (IAS), which targets much higher volume spaces (such as factories, large-restaurants, cinemas, museums and indoor farms) to achieve very high-levels of viral kill, targeting both SARS-Cov-2 as well as other problematic viruses (such as avian flu which affects birds and threatens humans through zoonotic mutation) and other unknown virus-strains.The IAS will also be designed for non-pandemic applications aiming to significantly improve Indoor Air Quality (IAQ), which is a significant cause of damage to human health, disease, premature deaths and workplace sickness. Unfortunately, indoor air can be 2-5 times more polluted than outdoor air (due to lack of dilution) meaning if the pollen count or air pollution rate outside is high, it can be significantly worse indoors.Developing the IAS will require significant and radical redesign of the AMS system so it can achieve the requisite air-flow rates for larger indoor spaces. This will involve extensive laboratory testing, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modelling, prototype building and re-testing to ensure a good design. If successful, this will generate significant revenues for BPP-Tech and lead to significant manufacturing employment (in BPP-Tech and across the supply-chain) in the North East to scale up production to meet demand.