Professor helping with effort to disinfect N95 masks

Waterloo Engineering professor Bill Anderson is using two decades of research experience to help solve the shortage of N95 masks for healthcare workers in the coronavirus crisis.

Anderson is consulting with hospital officials and collaborating with a Cambridge company hurriedly building an automated device to disinfect masks with ultraviolet (UV) light so they can be reused.

“This is not normally something you would want to do from a risk-management point of view,” said Anderson, a professor of chemical engineering. “But in the absence of new masks, I see it as a feasible stop-gap measure.”

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