Orient UV Sanitech Review: A UV-C Sterilizer Is Now As Important As Water And Air Purifiers In Our Homes

But why do we need a UV-C solution at home? The concept of using ultraviolet, or UV, actually comes from nature. The sun sends UV-A, UV-B and UV-C out into the solar system. Among this, natural UV-C has the most energy which also means that it can potentially be more dangerous too—and therefore the earth’s atmosphere absorbs us from it. But the man-made sources of UV-C, when used in a controlled environment, can be used for potent sterilization purposes. What UV-C breaks down certain chemical bonds and scrambling the structure of the DNA, RNA and proteins, which renders the microorganism unable to multiply. That is when it is effectively dead—and your things can be considered safely sterilized. Incidentally, UV-C is used to clean water as well. The UV-C is deployed in the 100-280nm wavelength range.

A study by the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL) at Boston University says that UV-C light sources irradiating the surface of a material inoculated with SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes the COVID-19 disease) at a UV-C dose of 5mJ/cm2 (exposure time 6 seconds) resulted in a 99% reduction of the SARS-CoV-2 virus present on that surface. This study determined that a UV-C dose of 22mJ/cm2 results in a reduction of 99.9999% of SARS-CoV-2 virus on that surface (exposure time 25 seconds). This is true for the UV-C that the Philips UV-C Disinfection System also uses and deploys.

The Orient UV Sanitech uses low-pressure UV-C lamps which emit the radiation at 254nm. Incidentally, these are 11-watt UV lamps, and if you look closely, these are made by Philips. The way these lamps have been placed diagonally in inside the chamber means that anything that you place inside it will get the UV-C envelope in its entirety.

With products such as this, where you don’t see a change or a visible alteration, it may be hard for you to recognize what this does. That is the apprehension many still have about air purifiers. The quality of lamps really matters a lot in the case of these UV-C sterilizers and Philips, as we had noted earlier as well, has had more than 35 years of experience in making UV-C products for home and commercial usage. Now you need to get used to the idea of sterilizing your gadgets, accessories, your child’s toys and pretty much everything that you touch daily.