Room air filters in lecture halls from autumn

CARE BY LIGHT, a joint start-up of PLANLICHT and MCI | Entrepreneurial College® will provide more than 100 filter devices for cleaning and disinfecting the room air for lecture halls at the Entrepreneurial College® in Innsbruck when studies start in autumn.

The filter units will be positioned at the MCI in highly frequented areas such as seminar rooms, laboratories, office units or common areas. This is to minimise the risk of coming into contact with coronaviruses, germs or similar.

Many other air filters merely circulate the fresh air. With the product "seTUBE air", the Tyrolean start-up wants to go a new way by filtering the room air in one step and disinfecting it at the same time.

"seTUBE air" uses a highly efficient filter assembly and a UV-C LED ultraviolet module. Specially made HEPA13 filters capture 99.9% of aerosols and particles larger than 0.1 to 0.3 mm carrying bacteria, viruses, fungi or other microorganisms. The C-band UV LED can destroy the molecular structure of DNA or RNA in the cells of these pathogenic organisms. As a result, the cells eventually die or are deactivated and the effect of disinfecting the circulated room air occurs.

"With the start of studies for the winter semester 2021/22, the MCI | Entrepreneurial University® has drawn up a comprehensive security concept to enable secure face-to-face teaching. The safety precautions include disinfecting the room air to ensure the safety of students, teachers and non-academic staff at the Entrepreneurial University®," explains Tommy Mayr, head of the COVID-19 crisis team at the MCI.

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