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TECHNOLOGY ADELTE’s Clean-Active Air System solves major challenge for ports
As governments around the world shift to policies that strive to bring back air and sea travel, ports have been challenged to find solutions that will mitigate the transmission of COVID-19 during that crucial operation of embarkation and disembarkation. Fortunately, ADELTE has anticipated the need for a clean and healthy environment inside passenger boarding bridges (PBB) and aircraft and have recently released AD300 CleanActive Air System.
“The system actively cleans and purifies conditioned air inside airport and seaport passenger boarding bridges as well as aircraft,” said Martin Westphal, Group Marketing Director for ADELTE. “We developed this solution over the past year and have installed the system in two new seaport passenger boarding bridges for cruise terminals — one in Kobe, Japan, and the other in Boston, Massachusetts.“
He added that the AD300 CleanActive system can be installed in all existing rooftop units and pre-conditioned air systems whether these are manufactured by ADELTE or another OEM equipment supplier. “The system actively cleans and purifies conditioned air inside airport and seaport passenger boarding bridges as well as aircraft...”
The AD300 Clean-Active is based on “Cold Plasma” technology, which has been applied extensively over the last four decades. Cold Plasma is a mixture of ionized elements consisting of a large number of energized particles, such as ions, electrons, free radicals, molecules, and neutral atoms. An ionizing effect is obtained as a result of an electrical field generated by voltages of 3000V obtained via dielectric barrier discharge and applied to a metal mesh exposed directly to the flow of air to be treated.
“The AD300 Clean-Active is a safe and natural purification system,” Westphal said. “It does not use or produce any type of chemical that could cause health risks and can be used while passengers are inside the treated spaces. Cold Plasma technology has been tested extensively in various industries including food, pharmaceutical, and hospitals, for example.”
For both seaports and airports, AD300 Clean-Active actively purifies the air supply to passenger boarding bridges. Integrated into rooftop units, the system eliminates viruses and bacteria from the air and from surfaces inside the PBB, whilst ensuring an optimum distribution of clean purified air, even when the tunnels are opened at both ends. The AD300 system is equally effective inside aircraft when used in combination with pre-conditioned air systems.
And of course, the AD300 CleanActive Air System has been tested and certified by a number of professional agencies, including TÜV Rheinland, one of the world’s leading testing service providers whose certification confirms that a product meets defined criteria and defined safety-relevant aspects.
