ReviewApplied thermal engineering2022
Review of air disinfection approaches and proposal for thermal inactivation of airborne viruses as a life-style and an instrument to fight pandemics.
Review in Applied thermal engineering, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Short-time thermal inactivation of surrogates of the public transport microbiome with a low-cost thermoresistometer.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Microbial Aerosols in Livestock Farming Environment: A Threat That Cannot Be Ignored.Veterinary sciences · 2025Review
- Highly Efficient Air Sterilization via Low-Temperature Interfacial Evaporation in Inductively Heated Superhydrophilic Ferromagnetic Filters.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Article
- Gamma-irradiated fowl cholera vaccines formulated with different adjuvants induced antibody response and cytokine expression in chickens.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Article
- Linear Mixed Model of Virus Disinfection by Free Chlorine to Harmonize Data Collected across Broad Environmental Conditions.Environmental science & technology · 2024Article
- A simple and effective aerosol pathogen disinfection test for a flowing air disinfector.Journal of biosafety and biosecurity · 2023Article
- Stratum Ventilation: Enabling Simultaneous Energy Conservation and Air Purification in Subway Cars.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- COVID-19 pandemic lesson learned- critical parameters and research needs for UVC inactivation of viral aerosols.Journal of hazardous materials advances · 2022Review
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Abstract
COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019) pandemic highlighted the importance of air biosecurity because SARS-CoV-2 is mainly transmitted from person to person via airborne droplets. Preventing infectious droplets from entering the body is one of the best ways to protect against infection. This paper reviews the transmission patterns of airborne pathogens and air disinfection methods. A particular emphasis is put on studies devoted to the thermal inactivation of viruses. These reviews reveal that air heat treatment has not been seriously considered as a possible air disinfection approach. Simple calculations show that the energy input required for thermal disinfection of human's air daily consumption is almost the same as for daily water consumption (by heat treatment from room temperature to 100 °C). Moreover, it is possible to organize a continuous heat recovery from the air already heated during disinfection to the inlet air, thus significantly increasing the energy efficiency. Therefore, I propose a solution for the thermal inactivation of airborne pathogens based on air heating and its subsequent cooling in a heat exchanger with heat recovery. Such a solution could be used to create mobile personal and stationary indoor air disinfectors, as well as heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems. Thermal disinfection of air to breathe might one day be part of people's daily life like thermal disinfection of drinking water. Aside from limiting infectious disease transmission, thermal inactivation might be the basis for developing inhaled vaccines using thermally inactivated whole pathogens.
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