Integrated Viral Protection (IVP) has announced their first municipality partnership with the City of Baytown, Texas to take further steps to enhance their indoor safety measures, by incorporating its Biodefense Indoor Air Protection System designed to instantly eliminate 99.999 percent of airborne COVID-19 virus particles.
Biodefense Indoor Air Protection
IVP’s Biodefense Indoor Air Protection System is an air-heated filtration system
IVP’s Biodefense Indoor Air Protection System is an air-heated filtration system, which is an affordable, mobile, plug-and-purify device designed to eliminate SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19 virus), anthrax spores and other airborne contaminants through a heated filter that does not impact the temperature of the ambient indoor air.
The City of Baytown plans to deploy IVP Biodefense Indoor Air Protection System units in city facilities, including City Hall, Sterling Municipal Library, and Baytown Community Center. Over the next few weeks, City staff will identify other high traffic areas in which to deploy additional units. This comes at a crucial and important time with the arrival of flu season and as colder winter months approach draw more people indoors.
IVP Air heated filtration system
The system was first designed by IVP Founder and Inventor, Monzer Hourani, who has a background in physics, science and engineering, and developed the advanced biodefense system in partnership with Dr. Garrett Peel, Co-Founder at Integrated Viral Protection, Dr. Zhifeng Ren, Director of the Superconductivity Center of Texas at the University of Houston, and with other scientists at the UTMB Galveston National Lab and University of Texas A&M Engineering and Experiment Station.
Materials Physics Today published a peer-reviewed study confirming the system effectively eliminates 99.999 percent SARS-CoV-2 (the virus causing COVID-19), 99.99 percent anthrax spores, and other airborne contaminants. The research has been publicly supported by research faculty at the Argonne National Laboratory and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Key tool in the fight against COVID-19 virus
"The time for action is now, and helping our great nation reopen in record timing with this proven science that kills COVID-19 is so important to me as we use Houston-based research to help lead us out of this crisis and get us back to business," said Monzer Hourani, Inventor and Founder of IVP.
"We have to use science and technology to lead us through this public health crisis. The invention by Monzer Hourani offers restaurants and businesses the security to breathe with confidence and more safely reopen our economy with proven solutions that help mitigate the spread of COVID-19 indoors," said Dr. Garrett Peel, Co-Founder at IVP.
Ensuring health and safety of Baytown residents
The health and safety of our residents is the top priority for the City of Baytown"
"The health and safety of our residents is the top priority for the City of Baytown," said Baytown Mayor, Brandon Capetillo adding, "The coronavirus isn't going away any time soon. This innovative new technology goes beyond the recommended safety recommendations to give us the highest level of protection for our residents and city staff to conduct business and go about their daily lives."
The results are independently endorsed by premier researchers including Professor Gang Chen at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). "Timely work with significant real world implication will effectively serve as a mask for indoor ventilation," said Professor George Crabtree, Director of JCESR at Argonne National Laboratory.
Professor Paul Chu Founding Director at the Texas Center for Superconductivity at University of Houston (Father of Superconductivity, Nobel Prize Nominee and National Medal of Science Awardee), said "This is a much needed single hope in this long depressing pandemic."
FDA Compliant
The patent-pending Biodefense Indoor Air Protection System is FDA Compliant to Enforcement Policy for Sterilizers, Disinfectant Devices and Air Purifiers, in the period of the prevailing Coronavirus Disease - 2019 (COVID-19) Public Health Emergency, 21 CFR 880.5045 Medical Recirculation Air Cleaner and 21 CFR 880.6500 Medical UV Air Purifier, Class II Device and permitted by the FDA to be sold during the ongoing global health crisis.