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Company News | 2024/04/23

The differences between UVC-LED and ultraviolet mercury lamp

Ultraviolet mercury lamp is mercury lamp, mercury is highly toxic, once the mercury lamp is broken or mercury leakage it has a very serious harm to the human body and the environment, and China has signed the Minamata Convention, from 2020 after a comprehensive ban on mercury, mercury containing products are not allowed to produce and sell, which can also be seen the attitude of the country for mercury lamp. 128 countries worldwide have banned the production, sale and import of products containing mercury.

 

The UVC-LED sterilization used in deep ultraviolet LED water sterilizers have the advantages of lower power consumption, fast start, long using life, small size, extremely perfect sterilization rate, etc. The key point of UVC-LED sterilization is not leading to secondary pollution in the using process, with a high environmental performance.For mercury lamp,due to the high pressure produce ozone, large power consumption, long sterilization time, heavy equipment and other reasons, limited the scope of daily use, which will eventually be eliminated by history therefore, UVC-LED is being favored by more consumers. Deep ultraviolet UVC-LED sterilization is a comprehensive upgraded products to traditional ultraviolet mercury lamps.

The differences between UVC-LED and mercury lamp UV is as follows:

1. The ultraviolet light sources are different: the ultraviolet light of the LED is emitted by the ultraviolet LED lamp bead, and the ultraviolet light of the mercury lamp is emitted by the mercury lamp tube or bulb;

 

2. The ultraviolet spectrum is different: LED ultraviolet is generally emitted a single peak wavelength spectrum (multiple peak LED combined, the spectrum is multi-peak), the wavelength range between 260-280nm sterilization effect is the best; The ultraviolet ray of mercury lamp is a spectrum of continuous wavelength emission, and its wavelength range is generally relatively large.

 

3. Different energy consumption: due to different luminous principles, LED ultraviolet is more energy saving and environmental protection than mercury lamp ultraviolet ; UV mercury lamp is a wide range of bands, and the curing or sterilization effect is mainly one of the wavelengths, the other bands are useless, wasted, absorbed by the product and converted into heat energy, which is also the temperature of mercury lamp irradiation products will be higher than LED irradiation. The LED ultraviolet is a single wavelength, compared to the traditional UV mercury lamp, UV LED can save 60% of the energy;

 

4. Heating is different: LED ultraviolet is a single peak wavelength, the effective part is more prominent than the ultraviolet mercury lamps, and does not produce additional infrared wavelengths, so it does not produce additional thermal radiation, and is more practical for heat-sensitive materials;

 

5. The safety factors are different: because the ultraviolet mercury lamp uses high-pressure excited mercury vapor to emit light, once the mercury lamp tube is damaged, there will be the risk of heavy metal mercury element leakage, which will cause heavy metal poisoning of on-site personnel, while the LED ultraviolet does not have these problems, which is no noise pollution, chemical pollution, and no harm to the human body.

 

6. Different life times: UV-LED light source is a cold light source, the heat is small, the life of LED is more than 20,000 hours, and the life of mercury lamp is about 1,000 hours.

 

7. The efficiency of working time is different: the ultraviolet mercury lamp needs ten minutes to half an hour to play a killing effect after start up. On the contrary UV-LED does not need to preheat, which can be set before light, with the extremely speed 0.2 seconds to a few minutes can effectively kill bacteria and viruses.

 


 

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Shenzhen Hechuang Hitech CO., LTD. is a National High-tech Enterprise, which has won a number of invention patent technology awards.  We focuses on the Research, Development, Production and Application of UVC-LED Technology. It adopts innovative technologies of revolutionary optics and fluid science, which can kill bacteria and viruses in 0.2 seconds, with a killing rate of 99.9999%. Hechuang Hitech provides safer, more efficient and more humanized sterilization module design for Water Air and Surface Disinfection products.