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Project Flickr Week 29 - Work/Chores
Don't try this at home! Ever have one of those days at work when you'd just like to pass a UV Lamp through your brain and make it all go away?
This is Mikey at work. I work at a UV Technology company. I sell replacement parts and equipment for Ultraviolet Purification. UV purification uses a portion of the ultraviolet spectrum known as UV-C. It is a shorter, higher energy wavelength than the UV-A and UV-B you've probably heard about. UV-A and UV-B can give you a sunburn, but UV-C really gets serious. When pathogens are exposed to UV-C light, the cell walls are penetrated and the DNA is altered making reproduction impossible and rendering the pathogen ineffective. Don't worry about me...I was born with altered DNA!
There are two specific wavelengths of UV-C that are used in the UV industry, 254 nanoMeters and 185 nanoMeters.
254 nanoMeters is used for disinfection and ozone destruction. The next time you take a drink of a beer, bottled water, or a soda, chances are the water in it was disinfected using UV light. UV is also used to disinfect municipal drinking water and also used in wastewater treatment. After it has been filtered, settled and scrubbed, it is passed through UV light before it is dumped back into the steam for someone else to drink. Don't gag! Here's a secret- all water is reused! UV light is also used in homes to treat well water.
UV light is also used in the pharmaceutical industry and now in swimming pools, spas and water features in public buildings.
UV is also used in the microelectronics industry. The 185nM wavelength is used in a process called Total Organic Carbon destruction. Organic Carbon atoms and molecules in water used to wash off electronic wafers can short between the tiny electronic circuits in microchips. UV-C in the 185nM wavelength destroys the organic carbon molecules and then they can be filtered off.
UV-C is present in sunlight, but the ozone layer protects us from the deadly effects of UV-C radiation. I wouldn't worry about the "hole" in the ozone layer. Remember the two wavelengths of UV-C I mentioned? 254 destroys ozone, but 185 produces it. God has it all under control!
I hope you all enjoyed reading about what Mikey does at work!
Project Flickr Week 29 - Work/Chores
Don't try this at home! Ever have one of those days at work when you'd just like to pass a UV Lamp through your brain and make it all go away?
This is Mikey at work. I work at a UV Technology company. I sell replacement parts and equipment for Ultraviolet Purification. UV purification uses a portion of the ultraviolet spectrum known as UV-C. It is a shorter, higher energy wavelength than the UV-A and UV-B you've probably heard about. UV-A and UV-B can give you a sunburn, but UV-C really gets serious. When pathogens are exposed to UV-C light, the cell walls are penetrated and the DNA is altered making reproduction impossible and rendering the pathogen ineffective. Don't worry about me...I was born with altered DNA!
There are two specific wavelengths of UV-C that are used in the UV industry, 254 nanoMeters and 185 nanoMeters.
254 nanoMeters is used for disinfection and ozone destruction. The next time you take a drink of a beer, bottled water, or a soda, chances are the water in it was disinfected using UV light. UV is also used to disinfect municipal drinking water and also used in wastewater treatment. After it has been filtered, settled and scrubbed, it is passed through UV light before it is dumped back into the steam for someone else to drink. Don't gag! Here's a secret- all water is reused! UV light is also used in homes to treat well water.
UV light is also used in the pharmaceutical industry and now in swimming pools, spas and water features in public buildings.
UV is also used in the microelectronics industry. The 185nM wavelength is used in a process called Total Organic Carbon destruction. Organic Carbon atoms and molecules in water used to wash off electronic wafers can short between the tiny electronic circuits in microchips. UV-C in the 185nM wavelength destroys the organic carbon molecules and then they can be filtered off.
UV-C is present in sunlight, but the ozone layer protects us from the deadly effects of UV-C radiation. I wouldn't worry about the "hole" in the ozone layer. Remember the two wavelengths of UV-C I mentioned? 254 destroys ozone, but 185 produces it. God has it all under control!
I hope you all enjoyed reading about what Mikey does at work!