New sterilisation technology to aid public libraries’ hygiene

With Coronavirus having highlighted the need for hygiene in public spaces, libraries have faced a particular challenge in keep their books - which pass through multiple hands while on loan - free from viruses and bacteria.

The newly-released LIVA book steriliser offers a solution for this, using shortwave ultraviolet radiation (UVC at 253.7nm) to sterilise viruses and bacteria on the book.

Allowing books to be sterilised in an all-round way, the cabinet-based technology from Evertree Co. Ltd of South Korea uses ultraviolet radiation to create titanium dioxide (TiO2) which generates high reactive hydroxyl radicals (OH) that accelerate the breakdown of any volatile organic compounds by destroying the molecular bonds.

This sees the organic gases combine to form a single molecule that is not harmful to humans while the reactive species will cause deleterious alterations in cellular structure, microbial inactivation and possible destruction.

Evertree offers four sterilisation modules in the LIVA air steriliser and deodoriser, with the TiO2 and UVA are installed inside the modules.

Testing has seen Evertree, a manufacturer and inventor of a series of high-end sterilisers, secure the highest level of CE certification (COC) with a sterilisation rate for human Coronavirus of 99.9% in the first hour.

For more information go to www.evertree.kr