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Halifax County Utility, Canada Needs To Divert Wastewater Into Harbour For Upgrades Including Upgrades To UV Disinfection Unit

Story from the Canadian Press featured in Town and Country Today about Halifax Utility needing to divert millions of gallons of wastewater into harbout for maintenance including upgrades to ultraviolet disinfection unit.Excerpts:HALIFAX — Halifax’s water utility says it needs to divert millions of cubic metres of wastewater into the Halifax harbour and Bedford Basin as…

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NS Nanotech Produces New Far-UVC LED With 60% More Energy Output For Room Disinfection

Article in Compound Semiconductor about US company NS Nanotech’s new Far-UVC LED that produces up to 60 % more germicidal ultraviolet light energy for use in room/air disinfection.US-based company NS Nanotech has increased the power output of its far-UVC ShortWaveLight 215 semiconductor emitter by more than 60 percent to deliver more effective human-safe disinfection of…

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US Patent Application – US 20250176768 A1 “CLEANING SYSTEMS AND METHODS”

Inventors: Orban; Jon et al.AbstractCleaning systems and methods, wherein the system includes a chamber configured to receive a body part of a user or an object, where the user’s skin or object is exposed to one or more cleaning, disinfecting and/or sterilizing processes, such as chemical agents, mechanical energy, ultraviolet light, and ultrasound, to clean, disinfect and/or sterilize the skin or…

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UV-C Creation of Hydroxyl Radicals For Hatchery Disinfection Strategy

Editorial article in Food Safety Magazine studying the use of ultraviolet C radiation to create hydroxyl radicals to be employed as hatchery disinfection strategy superior to direct ultraviolet disfection.Excerpts:The contamination of hatchery eggs by Salmonella can result in Salmonella disseminating throughout a flock after hatching, establishing itself and leading to poultry meat contamination that can sicken consumers. The traditional egg disinfection…

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US Patent Application – US 20250177599 A1 “Nanofiltration Devise for Deactivation of Air-Filtered Pathogens on the Surface-Treated Filter Material”

Inventors: Bohácek; Štefan et al.AbstractA nanofiltration device for inactivating droplet-transmitted pathogens. The microdroplets are captured by filtering contaminated air on a filter material/paper with the nanofibrillated cellulose and/or nanocellulose surface treatment containing antiseptic metal ions and an adjuvant in the retained residual water. The air is sucked into the openings of the nanofiltration device located…

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Treating Australian Wine Grape Orchards’ Diseases With Robots Embodying UV Irradiation

Article in ABC News Australia about efforts of wine grape growers to control costs of disease by using robots that irradiate plants with germicidal ultraviolet light (UVC).Excerpts:Wine grape growers grappling with declining sales and rising expenses hope advancements in autonomous technology can help to safeguard the industry.Global wine consumption has dropped considerably over the last…

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US Patent Issued 2025 – US 12318498 B2 “Systems and methods for disinfection”

Inventors: Bonutti; Peter M. et al.AbstractA disinfecting system includes a housing. An ultraviolet light (UV) source is secured to the housing and configured to emit UV light for disinfection of a target. A processor is secured to the housing in communication with the UV light source. The processor is configured to activate the UV light source for a selected amount of time suitable for disinfection of the target.Tags/Keywords: ultraviolet,…

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Vacuum Ultraviolet (VUV) Irradiation As Part Of Advanced Oxidative Process In Treatment Of Water Pollutants

Taiyo Akuto et. al. reseach article in Science of the Total Environment about water pollutant treatment methods – VUV alone, VUV/O3, and VUV/low-disoolved oxyge.Full text available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.179784Excerpts:HighlightsO3 addition accelerated VUV treatment of compounds with high HOMO energy levels DO reduction accelerated VUV treatment of compounds with low LUMO energy levels A suitable VUV-based treatment for…

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Beyond the Chip: Why Fixture Design Matters

As interest in far UVC continues to grow, the spotlight is turning toward one of the more persistent challenges in the field: thermal management. While advances in chip architecture and output have been well documented, there is a quieter but equally significant development taking place in fixture engineering — particularly in how it affects junction…

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Pennsylvania Candless Township Sanitary Authority’s Pine Creek Wastewater Treatment Facility Replacing Chlorination With UV Disinfection Treatment

Brian Rittmeyer writing for triblive.com about Candless Township Authority celebration of Earth Day and the Pine Creek Wastewater upgrades including replacing chlorination disinfection system with ultraviolet irradiation.Excerpts:The authority was marking the end of a $20.7 million upgrade of the facility, which included replacing its chlorination system with an ultraviolet light disinfection system.“We no longer use…

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