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CleanAIR

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Key facts

  • Disease

    COVID-19

  • Start & end year

    N/A

  • Known Financial Commitments (USD)

    $399,399.75

  • Funder

    European Commission

  • Research Location

    Austria, Germany

  • Lead Research Institution

    TU Wien

  • Research Priority Alignment

    N/A

  • Research Category

    Infection prevention and control

  • Research Subcategory

    Barriers, PPE, environmental, animal and vector control measures

  • Special Interest Tags

    Innovation

  • Study Type

    Non-Clinical

  • Clinical Trial Details

    N/A

  • Broad Policy Alignment

    Pending

  • Age Group

    Not Applicable

  • Vulnerable Population

    Not applicable

  • Occupations of Interest

    Not applicable

Abstract

Innovation: CleanAIR upgrades the functionality of older air-conditioning (AC) systems, allowing them to both clean the air and disinfect surfaces in a building. A supplemental smart control allows users to choose between a range of cleaning and disinfection strategies. For instance, this smart AC can run on cleaning mode during the day and a disinfectant mode at night, and then removing any overrun during an additional air-cleaning cycle. Expected Results: Airborne droplets that we expel when we breathe, talk, cough or sneeze are a key transmission route of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, as well as other infectious diseases. However, older air-conditioning systems are generally not designed to clean the air in any way. By upgrading the functionality of older AC-systems to both clean the air inside a building and safely disinfect surfaces, CleanAIR is designed to make indoor environments safer and greatly reduce the transmission of infectious diseases such as COVID-19.