Articles can be provided with odor resistance by applying a dispersion of a halogenated heterocyclic N-halamine in an inert liquid carrier onto the surface of the article and allowing the inert liquid carrier to penetrate into it. The N-halamine accordingly becomes deposited on the surface of the article after the inert liquid carrier penetrates into the article. This method can be used to provide odor resistance to a variety of substrates, including garbage bags. It can also be used to deposit other functional particulates onto the surface of substrates having sufficient porosity to take up the vehicle. For instance, such functional particles can be oxidants that display antimicrobial and/or enzyme inhibitory efficacy or particles having toxin interaction potentials through oxidative degradation or adsorption of toxic substances in air and/or water, such as fluoride uptake by metal oxide microparticles.

A system including tubing and a filter configured to be fluidly coupled to a vacuum source and to a heater/cooler unit by the tubing. The filter includes a filter container having negative air pressure in the filter container provided by the vacuum source to pull aerosol from the heater/cooler unit into the filter container and eliminate and/or reduce the aerosol emitted from the heater/cooler unit.

Two portable disinfection systems for indoor air disinfection are provided. One system is designed to be equipped with an external Far-UVC lamp as UV source, while the other is designed to be equipped with an internal Far-UVC tubular lamp as UV source. The system's portability makes it versatile and applicable in many different scenarios. The portability of these systems makes them versatile and suitable for various scenarios, including room disinfection and public transportation. They can function as standalone air disinfection units or be integrated with existing technologies to further reduce airborne pathogen concentrations.

Provided are a freshness retaining agent that can be obtained by a simple method and exhibits excellent adsorption performance and antibacterial activity, a gas purification device including the freshness retaining agent, and a gas purification system. The freshness retaining agent is formed by adhering tea catechins to a surface and/or an inside of charcoal powders and adhering the charcoal powders to each other with clay interposed between the charcoal powders, thereby exhibiting excellent adsorption performance and antibacterial activity.

A negative pressure enclosure includes a containment cavity that can be suctioned onto a surface to prevent particles, such as dust particles, from infecting patients within a health care environment during work, such as repair or maintenance work. Particularly, the negative pressure enclosure couples with a vacuum pump to create the negative pressure within the containment cavity; and with a HEPA vacuum to suction particles directly from the containment cavity during the work, preventing the particles from entering the environment external to the negative pressure enclosure.

A system for decontaminating/neutralizing breathable air and surfaces in an occupied enclosed space, i.e. building, aircraft, vehicle or greenhouse, includes mounting an atmospheric hydroxyl radical generator along an inside surface of the atmospheric hydroxyl radical generator having respective opposite air inlets and air outlets. The hydroxyl radical generator includes a polygonal housing supporting a plurality of spaced crystal-spliced UV optics, which are tubular, medical grade pure quartz optics to emit/irradiate ultraviolet in the nanometer wavelength/ultraviolet spectrum of between 100 and 400 nanometers for deactivating and neutralizing atmospheric chemicals and pathogens in breathable air and surfaces. The hydroxyl radicals contact the walls of the reaction chamber housing. The hydroxyl radicals become created and excited to react quickly with impurities including VOC, virus, bacteria and fungi, rendering them inactivated and neutral. The breathable air passes through the polygonal housing and is decontaminated and neutralized of impurities before entering the occupied enclosed space.

The disclosure herein concerns a method including receiving at a computer at least one target value of a scent parameter for an environment that is remote from the computer, receiving at the computer a sensed parameter of the environment, and controlling, via the computer, diffusion of a liquid from a source of the liquid in fluid communication with at least one scent diffusion device to achieve the target value of the scent parameter, wherein controlling includes setting or adjusting an operation parameter of the at least one scent diffusion device in response to the sensed parameter.

The disclosure herein concerns a method including receiving at a computer at least one target value of a scent parameter for an environment that is remote from the computer, receiving at the computer a sensed parameter of the environment, and controlling, via the computer, diffusion of a liquid from a source of the liquid in fluid communication with at least one scent diffusion device to achieve the target value of the scent parameter, wherein controlling includes setting or adjusting an operation parameter of the at least one scent diffusion device in response to the sensed parameter.

A multi-mode protective respirator with multiple radiation chambers that allow bidirectional airflow towards and from the user. Both radiation chambers may selectively treat the intake air provided to user (e.g., in an inhalation mode and a dual mode) and/or the exhaust air exhaled by the user (in an exhalation mode and the dual mode). To save enough power to provide the desired protection, each reactor chamber includes a flow direction sensor, and the disclosed multi-mode protective respirator employs a software-implemented process to treat the air only when desired.

A method being an improvement over the cleanup of aircraft flight deck or cabin air and cabin surfaces at the site of the aircraft tarmac, which is usually done with inadequate delivery of UV light from a portable cart, which can only disinfect exposed surfaces, not the general volume of breathable air and the crevices between seats and other surfaces, as well as behind grab bars and other semi-hidden surfaces. A method/apparatus is provided for cleaning breathable air in an aircraft, preferably in separate flight deck and passenger compartments of the aircraft parked upon a tarmac, the apparatus including: a hydroxyl generator positioned at a distance away from the aircraft, when the aircraft may be connected by a passenger walkway corridor to a passenger terminal.