Passing (flowing) air over, by or under ceiling fixtures or boxed filter or futuristic shaped devices containing ultraviolet lamps, filters, bars, etc., either does not kill microorganisms – or does  kill a foolhardy-effort  number in comparison to microbe population in each square foot of indoor (or airplane cabin) air. The airborne microbe is in number dispersed at a rate moving about the hospital, commercial building, homes and airplane cabins in the order of ten to over several hundred millions times capture rate of these devices. The Billions upon billions of microbes in the air do not dock around a device to suit the imagination, or get ‘caught’ sufficiently to create  result in air disinfection required.  For any test as a room device it is necessary to (A) seal the room and to (b) operate that unit for hours, (C) without new microbe addition (with nobody present in the test room). . That does not happen in real life .

Partial microbe-portion kill or filtering in an air duct (heating, cooling) system cannot be considered “whole building” protection. Removing some fish in the lake is far from rendering it fishless, and microbes are billions more abundant. These efforts to affect microbe status in the building do not, and cannot remove the microbe challenge with the necessary second-to-second massive-kill performance mandated by the rate of air movement, of consistent fresh microbe generation, their resistance and multi-billion count presence.  

Occupants from a few persons to a building full generate fresh and oft infective microbe content, including many billions of the inventive and equally dominant virus – that cannot be caught by any air filter known to man. Their threatening distribution is common to any enclosure from the hospital to the airliner, other place of business or entertainment or the home whenever persons are breathing. Many conceive of microbe kill as a simple process: it is much more of a challenge than proposed with most any method in the marketplace today. We stress that millions become ill or die because of a lack of appreciation for this statement, especially in the healthcare arena. There is presently in the building or airliner air system today, no objective method of kill-removing the devastating microbe at terminal rate.

HEPA filters of the ‘finest’ mesh cannot hold virus and smaller cellular life, all of which are extremely pathogenic from the common cold to any Flu variety.  Filters capture larger organisms (mold spore) and other microbes, and become feed beds for all microbes, a culture fed by the air circulation system.

This is the primary source of hospital acquired airborne infection – improper, not simply inadequate, but totally improper technology and ancient outmoded as pre-Pasteur ‘prevention/cure of blood-letting.. Today in responsible hospitals rooms are wiped down daily with anti-microbial solution – while the HEPA system spreads its contaminate air death (MRSA< Etc.) and infection  to every nook and cranny thereof.  Some airlines do ‘cleaning’ of the interior on a trip basis, when within seconds the ship interior is re-infected with new passenger loading, e.g., to be breathed by the new passenger and to contaminate every surface within seconds.

Products and programs: Background

International standards of microbe kill dose used in current devices and methods was established by  Lambertian values and the Inverse Square Law of light intensity. [Physicist Lambert expressed light intensity and defined these values mathematically and geometrically.] Though physics principle, Lambertian dependency used throughout the world inventory of water and air ultraviolet ‘purification’ equipment, unavoidably includes fringe outcome as a result. This has incurred a world use of excess power use, and globally common discrepancies of microbe kill achieved by ultraviolet. Below left: The early (circa 1994) MolecuCare Ultraviolet (Ultra-high strength) Irradiation© Virucidal Chamber used in AIDS research and care, reagent sterilization, UV Cell Response (ultraviolet kill properties acclaimed by world tables found erroneous) studies by MolecuCare at the Yale University School of Medicine Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry.

The world’s only instant in-and-out, (6 second cycle) Sterilizer (above right) developed in ultraviolet research by MolecuCare, tested on dental prosthetics, and small articles (syringes, feminine hygiene, infant care). Extended tests at Loma Linda University School of Dentistry acclaimed as best sterilizer performance ever studied.  Named “A-MOP”, renamed “PROSTHETIX”, trials were delayed by the FDA for unknown cause (never clarified or defined).  FDA personnel could not ‘mechanically’ determine ‘their’ call from the earlier Virucidal Chamber hand device (left). MolecuCare moved away from FDA-oriented device product since, and is researching a market re-posturing for its use. A limited stock remains of this unit at $3100 (stand optional $300)

MolecuCare AIRcaire™ Generator Series Whole Building Ultraviolet Air Disinfection Models

Above: First MolecuCare Developmental Models designated MRAD (Modular Return Air Disinfection) Circa 1998 leading to “AIRcaire” UV Generator series - safest breathing on or off the planet.