A professional doing electrostatic spraying

All you need to know about the electrostatic spraying technique.

Totalremediationllc
5 min readFeb 13, 2021

The Covid-19 pandemic has drastically changed everyone’s life. Cleanliness, self-hygiene becomes the topmost priorities in everyone’s checklist. No one could think of visiting a place where the chances of getting infected by a virus or bacteria are at their peak. As the things are getting back on track, all the small and medium scale businesses are opening for general use, so it is mandatory to keep premises disinfected properly. So, there are commercial cleaning services in Tampa, Florida that provide a solution for commercial cleaning and industrial cleaning to keep things disinfected properly with the help of using the electrostatic spraying technique. This technique is mainly used by airlines to disinfect planes between flights and employed by medical sections such as medical hospital type of places, schools’ classrooms, public restrooms, cafeterias, offices and even vehicles can also be treated efficiently.

What is Electrostatic Spraying?

The electrostatic spraying technique is a highly effective technique employed to attack germs, bacteria, and viruses. It was discovered in the 1930s, but it gains more importance when it is inculcated in the agricultural process, when it is used as a method to apply pesticides to crops. Over the years, this technique gets progress and makes its way from the automobile sector then onto the cleaning industries. It has wide application in both sectors for applying paints, sanitizers, and disinfectants to the surfaces.

How does Electrostatic Spraying techniques work?

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Electrostatic spraying works by applying a net negative charge to the ground or surface (disinfection needs to be done) and applying a positive charge to a liquid. The liquid is sprayed onto the surface which has a negative charge through which the protons in the positively charged atoms of spray get attracted by the electric field of other atoms causing those atoms to polarize.

The net negative and positive charges of atoms attract each other which ultimately results in coverage of the whole desired surface area. It depends on Coulomb’s Law which states, opposite charges are attracted to one another and similar charges repel each other. This means that a positive charge liquid is attracted to negatively charged surfaces. As each particle carries positive charges, the particles naturally start to repel each other and create a big dispersion. As liquid passes through the nozzle, it gets converted into a fine spray. The droplets get separated from each other and become smaller and smaller and seek out through a negatively charged surface.

Electrostatic spraying provides a coat of liquid across the surface area. The droplets will cover the entire visible areas from both the front and backside of surfaces. Surfaces that have already been covered by disinfectant will repel additional spray.

Using of Electrostatic spraying

It provides many advantages over the traditional methods which mainly include spraying and mopping the surface manually, which is time-consuming and can lead to human errors as well. Electrostatic spraying uses an eco-friendly disinfectant solution, which comes in a little tab that allows to dissolve them in water for the desired parts per million to be done for spraying and that can vary based on the type of area under the service. For example, if spraying in domestic areas so it can be as low as 50 ppm. However, it can go up as high as 4000 parts per million for difficult things like hospital-grade infection.

Typically, the service needs to be done by professionals. Such practices are being carried out through which companies provide commercial and industrial cleaning services in Tampa, Fl.

Electrostatic sprayers are greatly beneficial for effective disinfection. Because they can occupy large surface areas relatively at a quicker rate, they are both times sparring and effective. Corners that are hard to reach by humans are easily reached by electrostatic sprayer. These enable to clean the whole room and every corner rather than just highly contacted areas.

Advantages of Electrostatic spraying techniques

1. It provides a full even coat of spray to the surface instead of the conventional methods which covers only visible area.

2. This process does not use an air pressure mechanism to throw the liquid spray which ultimately results in minimum use of liquid as well as the release of hazardous organic compounds in the surrounding.

3. It highly recommends for the fighting coronaviruses and mold formation.

Electrostatic spraying does not induce corrosion nor causes any types of damages to the surfaces.

4. The main advantage of using Electrostatic spraying is there no need for wiping so no possibility of cross-contamination. It is highly effective for Virus protection.

5. Electrostatic spraying is the best option to make domestic and commercial space to fully disinfect and makes the surrounding safe and sound.

6. Oftentimes the disinfectant needs time to work properly, the proper dwell times varies from chemical to chemical. However, an electrostatic sprayer solves the problem of inadequate dwell times.

Electrostatic spraying as an Industrial application

Electrostatic spraying is mainly used in motor industries for applying paints to motors. However, it ultimately reaches to agricultural industries also. As all the solutions can be electrically charged, it has wide application in many sectors one such sector is the cleaning industry.

With little modification and changes, they have become a reasonable, practical, and cost-effective tool for the cleaning industry. Due to the pandemic, there is rapid growth in such industries to make things and workplaces protected.

Use of disinfectant in Electrostatic spraying.

Any type of disinfectant can be electrically charged. So, many common disinfectants can also be used in spraying. For use against Covid 19, specific use of the mentioned list of disinfectants has been taken into consideration to provide valuable services so they can work in a safe and protected environment.

Conclusion

Nowadays, in this pandemic, we all start to take care of the cleanliness, hygiene, and sanitation of our homes and workplaces. Sanitization is not only helping us to keep our environment healthy, but also that a healthy environment and lifestyle gives us peace of mind and satisfaction of being protective and safe.

With this need in mind, there is a rapid surge in cleaning industries in the state of Florida mainly in Tampa. These industries provide commercial and industrial cleaning services and have implemented the use of electrostatic spraying into their arsenal, through which a value for money service can be offered to customers.

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