{"id":23104,"date":"2020-06-09T01:49:42","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T01:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=23104"},"modified":"2020-06-09T01:49:44","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T01:49:44","slug":"drdo-develops-automatic-sanitiser-dispensing-unit-and-uv-sanitisation-box-to-fight-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/drdo-develops-automatic-sanitiser-dispensing-unit-and-uv-sanitisation-box-to-fight-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"DRDO develops Automatic Sanitiser Dispensing Unit and UV Sanitisation Box to fight coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)<\/strong> developed Automatic Mist Based Sanitiser Dispensing Unit and UV Sanitisation Box and Hand-held UV device to fight against COVID-19.<br><br><strong><u>Automatic Mist Based Sanitiser Dispensing Unit:<\/u><\/strong><br><strong>Centre for Fire Explosive &amp; Environment Safety (CFEES)<\/strong>, Delhi has developed an automatic mist based sanitizer dispensing unit. It is a contactless sanitizer dispenser that sprays alcohol-based hand rub sanitizer solution for sanitization of hands while entering the buildings\/office complexes, etc. It is based on water mist aerator technology, which was developed for water conservation.<br>It operates without contact and is activated through an<strong> ultrasonic sensor<\/strong>. A single fluid nozzle with a low flow rate is used to generate aerated mist to dispense the hand rub sanitizer. The sanitizer will sanitize the hands with minimum wastage. Using an atomizer, only 5-6 ml sanitizer is released for 12 seconds in one operation.<br><br><strong><u>UV Sanitisation Box &amp; Hand-held UV device:<\/u><\/strong><br><strong>Defence Institute of Physiology &amp; Allied Sciences (DIPAS) <\/strong>and<strong> Institute of Nuclear Medicine &amp; Allied Sciences (INMAS) <\/strong>have designed &amp; developed Ultraviolet C Light-based sanitization box and handheld UV-C (ultraviolet light with wavelength 254 nanometres) device.&nbsp;<br>The UV-C will destroy genetic material in COVID-19. The radiation warps the structure RNA which prevents the viral particles from making more copies of themselves. This is environment friendly and is a contact-free effective sanitization method.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) developed Automatic Mist Based Sanitiser Dispensing Unit and UV Sanitisation Box and Hand-held UV device to fight against COVID-19. Automatic Mist Based Sanitiser Dispensing Unit:Centre for Fire Explosive &amp; Environment Safety (CFEES), Delhi has developed an automatic mist based sanitizer dispensing unit. It is a contactless sanitizer dispenser that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1012],"tags":[1010,1093],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-23104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-april-2020","tag-covid-19","tag-sanitisation-box"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23106,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23104\/revisions\/23106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23104"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=23104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}