Restás, Á.; Szalkai, I.; Óvári, G. Drone Application for Spraying Disinfection Liquid Fighting against Covid-19 Pandemic – Theoretic Approach. Preprints2021, 2021030748
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Restás, Á., Szalkai, I., & Óvári, G. (2021). Drone Application for Spraying Disinfection Liquid Fighting against Covid-19 Pandemic – Theoretic Approach. Preprints. https://doi.org/
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Restás, Á., István Szalkai and Gyula Óvári. 2021 "Drone Application for Spraying Disinfection Liquid Fighting against Covid-19 Pandemic – Theoretic Approach" Preprints. https://doi.org/
Abstract
The Covid-19 pandemic caused very serious problems almost to the whole world, so every opportunity must be considered to improve the situation. Decontamination carried out from the air can also be considered for surface clearance of larger areas, so the possibility of this application should also be investigated regarding pandemic. There are many examples of the use of drones for disinfection to improve the epidemic situation, but good practices, as well as factors influencing the effectiveness, have not yet been identified. In the case of using drone for disinfections during a pandemic, based on the reports, we can clearly discover the adapted use of agricultural drones. In this paper, the authors perform calculations with different values of flight speed (10 to 50 km/h), flight altitude (1 to 5 m), and flow rate (1 to 5 l / min) to determine the possible amount of disinfectant fluid per unit area. The results show that by changing the parameters, the amount of disinfectant per unit area can be given within quite wide limits (30 - 0.24 g/m2). Although the results raise many new questions it can help to identify adequate flight parameters depending on different disinfectant liquids.
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