Apparatus for decontaminating ambient air in an indoor environment is disclosed. The indoor environment may be any partially or fully enclosed space designed for human occupancy such as a room within a building or structure or an interior of a vehicle. The apparatus comprises an inlet configured to receive contaminated ambient air from the indoor environment, an outlet configured to supply decontaminated air to the indoor environment, and one or more decontamination modules connected between the inlet and the outlet, each of said one or more decontamination modules being configured to remove contaminants from air passing through said decontamination module. In some embodiments the apparatus comprises an air recirculation mechanism for recirculating air back through the one or more decontamination modules, and a controller configured to control the air recirculation mechanism to recirculate a volume of air within the apparatus such that said air passes through the one or more decontamination modules a plurality of times, and to subsequently release said air into the indoor environment via the outlet as the decontaminated air. By recirculating air within the apparatus in this way, the overall effectiveness of the decontamination process can be increased.
APPARATUS FOR DECONTAMINATING AMBIENT AIR IN AN INDOOR ENVIRONMENT
2023-11-02
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
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