What is Controlled Plasma? How Does it Work?

The difference between 99.9% eradication and up to 99.999% is that for each 1,000,000 microbes, a product claiming to kill 99.9% will not kill 1000 microorganisms. OXONOX which kills up to 99.999% in laboratory conditions, in comparison will not kill 10 microbes per 1,000,000.

Starting with significantly less microbial load, the longer it will take to have a quantity that has the capability of infecting a human.

The surface that is being sterilized, or the air that is being cleansed to dilute any potentially transmissible breath in a lift, is rapid protection by OXONOX for people right when it is needed, not later.

As an example, a typical mercury or LED technology UV light under an escalator handrail takes minutes to have any germicidal effect.

OXONOX kills to extremely high levels in around a second meaning that protection is reapplied every belt revolution. Minutes is too long to stop transmission, and many may be affected, even in as little as a few minutes.

100% coverage at molecular level means a safer environment for users. Germs, when they get a hold, can proliferate rapidly into millions so killing back and front, over and under as well as direct line of sight is crucial. Only a gas can do that, not a droplet of chemical or a light source.

As an example, recent field testing by ALS Global, UKAS Accredited Laboratory, recorded that microbiological load in a lift compartment space decreased in the range of 92.7% to 94.94% with OXONOX ultra-cleansed air being pumped into the space versus an identical space with only atmospheric air present.

Given the variance in real life applications OXONOX is very confident to claim that its products will typically kill at least up to 99.99%, but often OXONOX will consistently achieve up to 99.999%, more in some circumstances, to the virtually unmeasurable.

As part of OXONOX undertaking Compliance with Health and Safety Executive (HSE) Regulations OXONOX engaged Elements Materials Technology UK Limited to undertake testing under Regulation 10 ‘Air Monitoring’ of COSHH Regulations.

The background airborne concentration of ozone from the OXONOX unit was less than 0.014 mgm-3 (milligrams per cubic metre) against an Occupational Exposure Limit of 0.4mgm-3 and the comparative figures for Nitric dioxide were 0.072 mgm-3 against a limit of 0.96mgm-3.

Elements Materials Technology Environmental UK Limited: 

Workplace Air Monitoring
NOx Worldwide 25th August 2021
Josh Mills B.Sc. (Hons) AFOH
Chris Smith B.Sc. (Hons), CertOH, LFOH
21st September 2021

“The results of the monitoring did not indicate a cause for concern with respect to ozone and nitrogen dioxide concentrations resulting from the operation of the Plasma ozone treater”

It means that the ozone used to kill all microorganisms is removed by filters and scrubbers and levels of ozone being emitted by OXONOX units are less than naturally occurring ozone in the atmosphere we encounter every day.