About sanitisation

There is a general tendency to confuse 'cleaning', 'sanitising' and 'sanitisation', putting everything under the same meaning. Technically speaking, sanitisation actually has a very precise and different purpose to 'cleaning' and 'disinfection': while the first two are aimed at removing 'visible' dirt or reducing the bacterial load in circulation, sanitisation is mainly concerned with ensuring that the risk of potential infections is kept at low and constant levels. Air sanitisation therefore goes in this direction: controlling the amount of bacteria in circulation and preventing their proliferation.

According to various studies, air is one of the main vehicles for the spread of bacteria, pathogens and other micro-organisms, potentially dangerous and capable of multiplying exponentially.

To prove this, let us take a small example. Let us imagine a closed environment (office, hotel room or health facility) and let us assume that at the beginning of the day, the bacterial flora amounts to only 2 organisms. Well, without intervention of any kind (whether positive or negative) we will find ourselves with billions and billions more particles in no time.

In the design phase it therefore becomes fundamental to provide for the inclusion of systems that allow for proper sanitisation of the air, decreasing pollution levels linked to contaminants (whether chemical, biological or physical) and reducing the presence of bad odours, mould and bacteria.

The choice will obviously also be linked to economic factors: when installing sanitisation systems one must take into account the surface area and size of the room, assessing the potential consumption and maintenance costs of the system and making the necessary comparisons with the costs that would be incurred in the absence of air sanitisation procedures.