Design and Development of A Multi Purpose Sanitizing Machine (UV-C Light Based)

N. P. Mungale, Vikas Janbandhu, Vikas Janbandhu, Tanmay Tabhane, Himanshu Giripunje, Aditya Pathak, Nikita Bhajipale, Dheeraj Asare, Sanket Waikar
2021 International journal of innovations in engineering and science  
Due to COVID-19 pandemic, more than 112 million people infected globally and 2.47 million deaths reported worldwide. The World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared the COVID-19 outbreak is a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on January 30, 2020 and rapidly spread globally it also declared the global pandemic on March 11, 2020. Till now more than 156K deaths have been recorded and 11 million people infected due to the virus as on 20th February 2021, and every passing day
more » ... ount of new cases is increased. The government of India (GoI) is taking lots of efforts to stop the spread and the government is also providing the vaccine but the availability of a vaccine is less and it will take a couple of months to be available in mass quantity. Now the government of India slowly opens all the public places with some guidelines and precautions like hand washing, wearing masks in public places, maintaining 2 to 3 fit distance between two people, good personal hygiene, and avoiding people gatherings. But still we are scared about the germs, bacteria or virus present on the material/object which we use daily. Therefore considering all this problem the efficient solution is, a multi purpose sanitizing machine is designed. The specialty of this machine is new innovative design consisting of a roller conveyor mechanism with cabinet like structure, in this machine UV-C light used for sanitization.
doi:10.46335/ijies.2021.6.6.9 fatcat:p52755qfjjaz7kwu7mfmuufm6q