Disinfectant on demand

Covid19危机大大增加了组织对房舍和表面进行深度清洁的必要性，以最大限度地减少病毒的潜在传播。这导致医疗机构和公共/私人组织缺乏合适的消毒剂，增加了这种病毒的潜在传播。Arvia相信，他们现有的电化学水处理技术可以在需要时重新用于生产合适的消毒剂。这将从含有食盐的溶液中产生，产生杀灭Covid19病毒所需强度的消毒剂。Arvia有一种电化学产品，用于水工业中氧化水中的有机化合物。不是处理废水，而是将盐水溶液电化学氧化，生成次氯酸钠消毒剂。只要使用电力和氯化钠，就有可能按需生产这种消毒剂。这在当前的危机中意义重大，因为消毒剂一直短缺。该项目的关键产出将是生产一个原型装置，以证明“按需”消毒剂生产的概念。虽然当局建议设立一个简单的“随需应变”系统，以应付Covid19病毒危机的即时需要，但有关研究可在未来生产一系列产品。冠状病毒的另一个潜在传播媒介，是经污水处理厂处理的污水。安德鲁·辛格(英国生态和水文学中心的高级科学家)指出，冠状病毒已在粪便中被发现，并已被证明具有传染性“，人们相信它们可以通过现有的污水处理厂在污水中存活数周。随着感染人数的增加，这种媒介的潜力可能会增加。这项研究将使Arvia继续开发一种对经过处理的污水进行消毒的过程。

The Covid19 crisis has increased significantly the need for organisations to provide deep cleaning of premises and surfaces to minimise the potential spread of the virus. This has led to shortages of suitable disinfectants, in medical establishments and public/private organisations, increasing the potential spread of this virus. Arvia believe that their existing electrochemical water treatment technology could be re-purposed for the production of a suitable disinfectant when required. This would be produced from a solution containing common salt, producing disinfectant at the required strength for destroying the Covid19 virus.Arvia have an electrochemical product that is used in the water industry to oxidise organic compounds in water. Instead of treating wastewaters, a brine solution is electrochemically oxidised to produce a sodium hypochlorite disinfectant. Using just electricity and sodium chloride it would be possible to produce this disinfectant on demand. This is significant in the current crisis as there have been shortages of disinfectants.The key output of this project will be the production of a prototype unit to prove the concept of "on-demand" disinfectant production. Whilst a simple "on-demand" system is proposed to meet the immediate needs of the Covid19 crisis, a range of future products could be produced from the research undertaken.A potential further vector of transmission of the Coronaviruses is via effluents treated in sewage works. Andrew Singer (Senior Scientist at the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology) has noted that Coronaviruses have been recovered in faeces and have been shown to be infectious" and it is believed that they can survive is sewage for weeks, passing through existing sewage treatment plants. As the number of infectious people grow, the potential of this vector could grow. This research will allow Arvia to continue development of a process for the disinfection of treated sewage effluent.