Thursday, June 25, 2020
Work by a Waterloo Engineering professor on the use of ultraviolet light to help disinfect and reuse personal protective equipment (PPE) for healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic is advancing to testing.
Bill Anderson, a professor of chemical engineering, began working online with researchers in New Zealand to develop a proposed two-stage system to kill, or deactivate, the virus on used PPE.
Now he is collaborating on a $1-million study by researchers at two universities in that country to determine if the proposed system can be safely used on the front lines of the pandemic.
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