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SOG - UV I think is also used for air sterilisation - air flows through a tube surrounded by UV - has the same effect as being in the sunshine. The flow of air can be pretty quick but I guess it's probably proportional to the intensity of the UV. I don't have any figures off the top of my head though.
Thanks for the mask feedback MyIPA
Regards
MyIPA, UV has been used for ages in the sterilisation of water. Yes, no reason as to why it cannot be used in large enclosed spaces. I would hazard a guess it would take a while to install such systems and in the mean time the are would be out of service. The UV modules I reckon would need to be large too to accommodate sufficient time for virus exposure to the UV light.
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SOG - it's well out of date (since February at least as they stopped the work on the 5-ply ours is only 4 ply). I would also state that 'virucidal' is not quite a correct statement because it is elemental copper (at least before it reacts with oxygen/virus etc to make a compound) and not a chemical per se (my association with 'virucdal' is of disinfectant/liquid etc).
It sounds like this was made by the old BoD, yet it has the ISO label on it. Needs updating. RMS needs updating with the mask summary as well. Could be better (the viron masks and the pro-larva websites I have to say are pretty good in general)
MyIPA.
Just checked P2F website, what is your take on this?
https://www.pharm2farm.org/face-masks/
SadOldGit - agreed the face seal is important. I like the FFP2-type masks (with a valve). I have been mainly isolating so I know I haven't got it, not sure about the air in the supermarket, so agree, protect yourself from others, rather than others from yourself. It all depends on which side of the risk you stand on (if not isolating perhaps you need to more likely shield others from you, for example, hence the blue surgical masks - critical for any close contact by medical, or food production(I'll bang on about that again!), professionals) if isolating/not infected then you need to protect yourself from others.
If we really are dealing with Volz, I assume this is VolzFilters, and they would be dealing with filtration systems as well as masks. However.... the critical issue here is all hospitals, planes, enclosed spaces need is a UV filter through which the air is circulated which will sterilise the air. Talk about idiots in charge of the NHS budget - this should have been mandatory in ALL new build hospitals as well a programme for updating old hosptials air conditioning systems for the past 20 years. It wasn't. We can't walk about with one of these UV filters our faces along with an electrical generator in a backpack, hence the copper nanotech masks is the next best thing. Industrial solutions already exist for planes, just people don't want to spend the money. Perhaps now they will.
My IPA , intersting the wearing of masks. one of the most important aspects of mask wearing is a face seal. Have you noticed on a cold day those that wear a material mask pulled tightly over the face and wear glasses that the glasses get steamed up?
There is a gap either side of the nose. Whilst this mask will reduce the amount of exhaled or coughed air into the environment it is by no means anywhere near 100 effective, furthermore in this application it is used to afford some protection to others but very little protection to the wearer. The P2F mask has a great fit around the nose area ensuring an effective seal. It is postulated that to become infected around 1000 virions uptake is required and further studies are in progress.
Dilution in the atmosphere of the virus is important with regards to containing the spread of the virus. Any vital organisations like the NHS for example would not only benefit immensely from these masks but also the nano technology, potentially being used in Air conditioning systems. Most systems use recirculated air.
One of the biggest transmitters of viruses is passenger aircraft especially long haul flights. No reason why nanotech particles cannot be used and in this application dependant on filter size should/would last a hell of a lot longer than a minimum of 7 hrs.
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Partypooper - "difference between you and me is that you think P2F mask is unique and superior" um. No, actually. But it's in the UK and the EU, it's being made, it's being sold, we're invested in it (thought you sold up shop?) and we can definitely take enough of the global $60bn/year pie for this share to rise to maybe even £1 in a few years if well managed, licensed, and if the nanotech supplier grows with us (maybe we should suggest a merger of this supplier).
Partypooper - what? No. You cannot filter out a significant number of viruses in a breath using a fabric material. Use your eyes and read. At what point did I go back to filtration.
Imagine a bacteria is the size of a full stop here -> .
A virus is like the size of another fullstop if that fullstop ^ was a metre to 10 meteres across. I'm talking in ballparks, haven't done the calcs, apologies.
Try filtering that using your filter that has 1m sized holes. Sure you'll catch some, but not many. In fact it's probably more the meltblown layer that stops the virus (as usually it will be contained in water droplets of varying sizes in the air/spit) but when you breathe in you almost suck the virus through that material, and that's where the copper starts the killin' - and the nanotech means high surface area so faster killin'. I believe I read that the mask actually is kills all within 5 minutes and the layers lasts for 7 hours of protection.
Happy to be corrected RE the fluid/meltblown/breathing in action.
Coronavirus will last longer in air humidity levels of less than 50% When moisture evaporates it takes the virus with it still in tact. The corona virus prefers room temperature and just under 50% humidity.
I do understand your product poorinvester, I've done lots of research, the difference between you and me is that you think P2F mask is unique and superior, I think it's just one of many unique concepts all of which are niche and unscalable.
Virus needs moisture to survive, high suction background material will take the moisture out more quickly, I don't like the blown plastic material for lots of reasons.
Poops, you still don’t seem to understand our product. Wskamano is completely different, it is using plant extracts, some people will be allergic to it and it doesn’t work as well and for as long as ours. Ours is copper nanotechnology, some thing completely unique. I don’t want to give you a chemistry lesson so google it.
On many surfaces, including as glass, some types of plastic, stainless steel, and skin, the virus can remain infective for several days indoors at room temperature, or even about a week under ideal conditions.[182] On some surfaces, including cotton fabric and copper, the virus usually dies after a few hours.[182] As a rule of thumb, the virus dies faster on porous surfaces than on non-porous surfaces.[182] However, this rule is not absolute, and of the many surfaces tested, two with the longest survival times are N95 respirator masks and surgical masks, both of which are considered porous surfaces.[182]
MyIPA You're back to filtration? The particle size is irrelevant to a mask that has an anti-microbial action built in, that has been done yonks ago.
This difference in size is why the nanotech is so important - it's the massive increase in surface area of the nanotech coppoer that allows it to react quickly and effectively against the viral load on landing/ pass through.
poorinvestor The Wakamono uses nano
If you want to make a mask for the small number of people that have allergic reactions that's noble, the mask company that makes the ones for the majority that don't might sell more masks though.
Nano particles very trendy right now no doubt.
Very true MyIPA corona virus typically 50 by 110 nanocron. All a virus is, is nucleic acid surrounded by a protein. You seem a lot more knowledgeable than most on this board lad.
Partypooper: "Anti-microbial = Anti-viral" not true I am afraid. they differ in size by a factor of 100-1000. Bacteria can be easily filtered yes, but viruses are not so easily blocked. Common misconception.
Party poops, the rest of the anti-viral masks use chemicals, which irritate some people’s skin or they have a allergic reaction to the chemical. This is the reason, why our mask is one of a kind, even after the pandemic it will be used globally in hospitals, healthcare environment. The problem is, people like you don’t understand our product.
MyIPA
https://wakamonobio.com
For the most part Anti-microbial = Anti-viral, they've been around for a very long time using various methods of deactivating bacteria and viruses.
Not the only horse in the race but none are jumping over the fences.
If anti-microbial masks were the answer a company would make them using the cheapest and therefor most effective way, it's not using nano particles, there's just one clue as to the lack of large scale demand for them.
PartyPooper - I think there is confusing between what constitutes an anti-viral mask. Yes there have been lots of these claims, and to a certain extent anything kills viruses and bacteria quicker than living in a (human) body (so it isn't a lie). A good search throws up a number of them, all made from fabric and with no technology soluation further than filtration (which really only works on bacteria in fabrics due to the comparatively large size of the bacterium vs the fibres). Even John Lewis sells one - it's just a fabric mask but says "antiviral". In this and other instances it means antiviral in the sense that it hopes to stop some viral particles but doesn't actively kill them using the well known properties of copper (one of which is that copper has a free electron in its outer shell of electrons that facilitates in oxidation-reduction reactions, disrupting dna/rna of bacteria and viruses).
Do any of these masks have the ISO 18184 certification (this is specifically an anti-viral ISO number)? No, they don't.
I am just waiting for the new products - likely PPE where the outerlayer is the copper nanotech (and inner layer is just hypoallergenic. This will replace the method for making PPE the world over, given time.
Sheephatch P2F Mask is not the world's "first anti-viral face mask", not even close, they've been around for decades. You do know there are multiple incarnations of this snake oil idea all around the world, none of them are taking off. The Wakamono mask for example, also making the same false claims. More I read this BB the more I think it's 90% full of posts from professional liars and the rest are from genuine PI's.
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