Ahmedabad railway station gets sanitizing tunnel

AHMEDABAD: The Ahmedabad Railway station at Kalupur has become the first in the country to install a walk through mass sanitizing tunnel. The tunnel was opened following its final inspection by divisional railway manager Deepak Jha.
The mass sanitizing tunnel is an attempt to ensure that the threat of Covid-19 does not affect the staff and passengers entering the Ahmedabad station at Kalupur.Recently the entire station at Kalupur was sanitized by professionals with WHO-approved hot fogging and cold fogging. Even the outside of the station was sanitized as was the entire area.
With the number of Covid-19 positive cases growing in Ahmedabad, it is of utmost necessity to be prepared for when train services resume, said a senior officer. This tunnel is 20 feet long and is fitted with a sensor so that when a passenger approaches the entrance it starts fogging automatically with WHO approved sanitizer consisting of IPA and hydrogen peroxide based liquid sanitizer.
The system runs on the vaporization process which converts the sanitizer mixture into a vapour which forms a uniform layer over the surface without wetting it and it also dries up quickly. The entire unit consist of the tunnel, an electric panel, an ultrasonic vaporizing unit and five outlets on top and five on the sides for uniform distribution of ssanitizer, with a storage tank of 500 litres. The tunnel can sanitize 25 to 30 persons per minute and consumes approximately 20ml of sanitizer per person. This is a pilot project.