ABSTRACT
Due to the current acute problem of combating the SARS-CoV coronavirus, our team has proposed an innovative technology to combat the virus in closed or ventilated rooms. The developed design of ventilation equipment ensures the inactivation of coronavirus by thermal exposure of sufficient duration. The virus is destroyed outside the human body, so sterilization is preventive. Capturing the virus from the airflow and its retention with subsequent disinfection occurs using a finely dispersed catching medium, using the effect of coagulation of the medium vapors, its coalescence, and intense heating. The use of highly efficient heating technology using microwave energy allows sterilizing the virus with minimal energy consumption. Unlike virus disinfection technologies developed in the world using ultraviolet radiation, the technology we offer involves a long-term deactivating thermal effect on the virus, which ensures a high degree of disinfection. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.