Does Ozone destroy viruses?
When a person coughs, they emit approximately 100,000 droplets. Most of these droplets fall to the ground within 1 minute. Micro droplets continue to float in the air even after 20 minutes. Although it is said that the way to prevent this is to ventilate the environment by opening the windows, this is not a very efficient practice. It is possible to understand that this method is not very useful when we consider that most of the buildings in our country do not open windows, even there are no windows in many places, even if there is a possibility to open windows, the hot or cold air coming from outside will cause energy loss and cause different health problems especially in winter.
The idea of providing fresh air with central air conditioning systems is not an efficient practice either. The heat load of central ventilation in most of the comfort environments outside of sterile environments in our country is calculated according to the mixture air, not 100% fresh air. This means that even if you manage to operate a system calculated according to the mixing air with 100% fresh air, the ambient air will not be sufficiently cooled in the summer and heated sufficiently in the winter. This will bring along different health problems and job losses. The risk that should not be overlooked even if the required technical values are achieved by making serious expenditures in the ventilation systems in order to eliminate these problems, is the following: While removing the droplets that are stationary on the ground or the micro droplets suspended in the air by the ventilation method, it is against the possibility of contamination to other people before leaving the environment due to the movement of viruses can be confronted.
Although we encounter different applications such as ultraviolet light or hepa filter in studies of destroying viruses, the technical limited use of these products cannot give the desired result. Negative factors such as the fact that ultraviolet rays only sterilize the area where they are reflected, their contact with human skin causes severe discomfort, the hepa filter systems accumulate viruses on themselves, and the lack of application to every system due to the high pressure loss they create, limit the use of these systems.
In addition to personal protection measures taken against viruses, protection and destruction measures containing high-tech ozone should be implemented as soon as possible.
Ozone, which is also found naturally in nature, disperses with the air and destroys the viruses and bacteria in the blindest spot where they are. Ozone, which has an on-site intervention effect against viruses and bacteria, is more effective against microorganisms than hepa filters and ultraviolet rays.
It has been published in hundreds of scientific articles describing the effect of ozone on bacteria and viruses. Thailand Medical Academy announced that the resistance of microorganisms in the coronavirus group against ozone is 0.3 seconds.
In addition to many organizations that started to apply ozone in real terms in our country, Japanese scientists have declared to the world that ozone neutralizes viruses in indoor environments, Dubai International Airport, Venezuela Airport, Italian Brescia Clinic, China, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands, England We can consider the use of ozone gas to destroy viruses in the air and on objects by countries in different geographies of the world, such as Saudi Arabia, as important developments in this regard.
Ozone is not only a disinfection product, but also a sterilization product that has no alternative. In addition to its contribution to the termination of the pandemic, the ozone used according to the application criteria accepted by health authorities such as the World Health Organization against the pandemic, which is increasing its effect in the world, will also be beneficial for human health.
İlker KURAN
Alperen Ltd. Şti.