ArticleBuilding and environment2021
Ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI) for in-duct airborne bioaerosol disinfection: Review and analysis of design factors.
Article in Building and environment, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
23 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Managing infectious aerosols to counter engineered pandemics: Current recommendations and future research.Risk analysis : an official publication of the Society for Risk Analysis · 2025Guideline
- Comparative performance and environmental evaluation of 222 and 254 nm UV lamps for in-duct air disinfection in building systems.Journal of building physics · 2026Article
- The influence of environmental factors on the diversity and structure of airborne fungal and bacterial communities.Mycology · 2026Review
- A 266-nm multi-reflection laser curtain for airborne bacterial inactivation in a 20-mFrontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Highly Efficient Air Sterilization via Low-Temperature Interfacial Evaporation in Inductively Heated Superhydrophilic Ferromagnetic Filters.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Article
- Photoinactivation of influenza viruses by modulated indoor daylight spectrum and intensity.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2025Article
- On the Use of the Intrinsic DNA Fluorescence for Monitoring Its Damage: A Contribution from Fundamental Studies.ACS omega · 2024Review
- An Assessment of Germicidal Ultraviolet Treatment Cabinets and Carousels Using a Bacteriophage Surface Challenge.Applied biosafety : journal of the American Biological Safety Association · 2023Article
- Energy efficient ventilation and indoor air quality in the context of COVID-19 - A systematic review.Renewable & sustainable energy reviews · 2023Review
- A simple and effective aerosol pathogen disinfection test for a flowing air disinfector.Journal of biosafety and biosecurity · 2023Article
- Room-Based Assessment of Mobile Air Cleaning Devices Using a Bioaerosol Challenge.Applied biosafety : journal of the American Biological Safety Association · 2023Article
- An excimer lamp to provide far-ultraviolet C irradiation for dining-table disinfection.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- A cost-effectiveness assessment of the operational parameters of central HVAC systems during pandemics.Building simulation · 2023Article
- Control technologies to prevent aerosol-based disease transmission in animal agriculture production settings: a review of established and emerging approaches.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2023Review
- A comprehensive review of microbial contamination in the indoor environment: sources, sampling, health risks, and mitigation strategies.Frontiers in public health · 2023Review
- Did You Just Cough? Visualization of Vapor Diffusion in an Office Using Computational Fluid Dynamics Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- In-duct grating-like dielectric barrier discharge system for air disinfection.Journal of hazardous materials · 2022Article
- Article
- Ten questions concerning the paradox of minimizing airborne transmission of infectious aerosols in densely occupied spaces via sustainable ventilation and other strategies in hot and humid climates.Building and environment · 2022Article
- Prototyping a low-cost residential air quality device using ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI) light.HardwareX · 2022Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
The rapid increase in global cases of COVID-19 illness and death requires the implementation of appropriate and efficient engineering controls to improve indoor air quality. This paper focuses on the use of the ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI) air purification technology in HVAC ducts, which is particularly applicable to buildings where fully shutting down air recirculation is not feasible. Given the poor understanding of the in-duct UVGI system regarding its working mechanisms, designs, and applications, this review has the following key research objectives:•Identifying the critical parameters for designing a UVGI system, including the characterization of lamp output, behavior of the target microbial UV dose-response, and evaluation of the inactivation performance and energy consumption.•Elucidating the effects of environmental factors (air velocity, air temperature, and humidity) on the UVGI system design parameters and optimization of the in-duct UVGI design.•Summarizing existing UVGI system designs in the literature and illustrating their germicidal and energy performance in light of COVID-19 mitigation.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.