A paper has been published in ES&T Air titled, “Effects of Germicidal UV Air Disinfection Devices on Indoor Air Quality in an Unoccupied Aged Care Facility”. The paper, which includes Professors Jason Monty and Lidia Morawska, from the Thrive Executive team, aimed to identify whether using germicidal ultraviolet (GUV) devices in an empty aged care facility led to changes in O3, volatile organic compounds or ultrafine particles that were significant compared to usual background variation.
💡 Did you know that they found that ventilation and changes in outdoor pollutants had substantial effects on IAQ, while GUV produced only small (but measurable) effects on IAQ in a real-world urban setting.
🔗 Read the paper: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestair.4c00322
