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Space tech to revolutionise infection control in hospitals | University of Southampton

Scientists from the University of Southampton are using space technology to tackle infection control in hospitals – and help them cut their carbon emissions. Project PASTA (Plasma Air Sterilisation and Treatment Apparatus) uses the same plasma technology that is used to de-orbit satellites, originally seen onboard the Space X Falcon 9 flight. Read the full story here πŸ‘‰ https://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2024/03/pasta-project.page If you enjoyed this video πŸ“½οΈ like πŸ‘ and subscribe βœ… 🍿😎 Connect with us on: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uni_southampton Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@unisouthampton Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/unisouthampton Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/unisouthampton LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/school/university-of-southampton

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plasma has the two different characteristics one is it's the physical characteristics when we use the that characteristic in the space to generate the thrust maneuvering of the satellite or transporting to the the mass World Beyond we using the same plasma but using the chemical characteristics to inactivate the album pathogens to protect the NHS people in inside of the hospital hospitals are full of sick people their immune system can be deficient and there's one patient who has got a Airborne
pathogen it's going to rapidly spread around so it's important to make sure the air is clean currently the filtration systems are doing a job but the figure suggest that it's not working 100% we found the plasma is actually very efficient at killing microorganisms quite rapidly and what advantage obviously you don't have any fluent you don't have any contamination so unlike chemical decontamination you don't have to rinse anything and if it's air pollution uh it's the same thing you don't have a
ll the residues after treatment one of the major advantages of potentially going towards this plasma based system is that the current uh filtration systems essentially you know block the air flow as it goes through the hbac system and that blockage means that you have to pump the the motors harder to actually keep the air flowing through we hope that by actually replacing those blocking filters with this essentially a different type of filtration system the air flow requirements for the the pump
s will be lower and therefore the electricity consumptions will be lower which in turn will lead to lower carbon emissions potential of the dis project is the huge initially we plan to apply the hospitals but it can be expanded for the home large buildings it can be used the public transportation everywhere we bleed to protect [Music] us

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