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UV domain knowledge from the field

Curated articles, customer cases and practice sessions on UV applications. Live DB, vendor-neutral, with confidence tags.

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Read up, then plan it — design your UV system in Simulex

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UV manufacturer directory

Lamps, substrates, measurement systems — vendor-neutral with field specs.

UV simulator ↗

Configure your system, calculate dose distribution, pick lamps from the manufacturer pool.

UV Atlas

Structured domain guides by industry & technology — disinfection, curing, wavelength selection.

UV reference desk

The building blocks in one place — UV technologies, lamp types, measurement methods & systems, standards, and the studies behind the numbers.

UV-C germ database

Peer-reviewed UV-C inactivation doses (D90–D99.999) for viruses, bacteria, molds and protozoa — with test wavelength and source.

UV domain knowledge from the field

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Reflector Geometries & Beam Patterns — How UV Reaches the Target

UV Lamp Technology — Low-Pressure, Amalgam, Medium-Pressure, LED, Excimer

UV-C Validation & Dose Measurement — proving the dose actually arrives

UV-C Dose & Log Reduction — the number behind every disinfection claim

UV & Occupational Safety: Exposure Limits, Controls, and Legal Duties

UV & Health: How Ultraviolet Light Affects Skin and Eyes

UV-LED vs Mercury Lamp — A Buyer's Decision Guide

Swimming Pool UV-C — Chloramines, Cryptosporidium, DIN 19643

UV-Curable Chemistry Families: Acrylate, Epoxy & Silicone Property Profiles

UV Photoinitiators: Type I vs Type II, Wavelength Matching & Low-Migration Selection

HVAC: Filter + UV-C — Which Setup, When?

UV-C Safety — protecting people from the light that protects them

Paint-Shop Process Water — UV-C as a Biocide Replacement

UV-C Economics & ROI — HEPA Substitution, TCO, Biocide Comparison

How UV-Reactive Substrates Work — Photoinitiators, Wavelength Match, Oxygen Inhibition

UV System Type Taxonomy — Line, Area, Spot & Modular Emitters

UV in Food Processing — The Regulatory Stack for DE, EU and the USA

Occupational Safety Norms — UV-C Worker Protection (DE/EU)

LED Area Emitters — UV-LED Arrays for Homogeneous Surface Irradiation

UV-C Room Air Recirculation Units: Ceiling, Wall and Mobile Mounting

Food Industry: Integrating UV-C Hygiene

Standards & Certifications — UV-C Applications

Choosing a UV System for Your Application

Ballast / Driver Replacement — What to Check

AG LUV Guideline 100 + DIN/TS 67506 — Germany's standard for mobile UV-C air disinfectors

UV Dosimetry Fundamentals — Measuring and Verifying UV Dose

CE Conformity and Market Surveillance for UV Devices

UV-LED Lifetime & Degradation — L70 Modelling, Thermal Ageing, Maintenance Practice

How to Read a UV Product Datasheet

Ballasts and Drivers — Choosing the Right Type for Each UV Application

Far-UV-C (222 nm) — Efficacy, Safety, and Where It Fits

Why Pathogens Differ — UV-C Resistance across Bacteria, Viruses, Spores & Protozoa

UV Wavelengths & Action Spectra — 222/254/265 nm and DNA Absorption

Air vs. Surface vs. Water — the same UV-C, three different delivery problems

Drinking-Water UV: Reactor System Types and DVGW W294

UV-Curing Substrates: Inks, Coatings, Adhesives and Sealants

Anatomy of a UV Lamp — Structure & Components

Selecting UV-Curable Adhesives & Coatings: End-Properties First

Material Pitfalls in Practice: Component Ageing Under UV-C

Layer Thickness and Dose Scaling — Required Dose vs. Coat Depth, the Beer-Lambert Law

Lambert's Cosine Law — Why Incidence Angle Decides UV Dose

Finding the Right Replacement UV Lamp

HVAC UV: In-Duct vs. UV Chamber — Two Installation Modes

Cooling Towers: Legionella Prevention and Biocide Replacement with UV-C

Process Water — Batch and Tank Types: UV System Design

How to join the LUVEX Partner Program

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