Patent ID: 7959859

Claim:
A method for sanitizing a space, the method comprising the steps of: providing a tank having a compression area within an interior space of the tank between an inlet and an outlet thereof: placing a reactor vessel within the compression area, the reactor vessel having an ultrasonically vibratable disc at a fixed location within the reactor vessel and below a top edge thereof; placing an aqueous sanitizing liquid into the interior space of the tank; transferring liquid from the tank interior space into the reactor vessel so as to fill the reactor vessel to the top edge thereof, the reactor vessel supported within the tank interior space and above a bottom of the tank; continuously transferring the liquid into the reactor vessel for causing the liquid to continuously cascade over the top edge thus maintaining a fixed depth of the ultrasonically vibratable disc below a surface of the liquid; vibrating the ultrasonically vibratable disc to form an atomized fog of a plurality of particles emitted from the aqueous sanitizing liquid; providing a preselected flow of air within the interior space from the inlet toward the outlet of the tank, the air flowing through the compression area from a high pressure to a lower pressure, and causing smaller particles within the plurality of particles to move more quickly toward the outlet than larger particles thereof, the preselected flow of air allowing at least a portion of the larger particles to fall back to the bottom of the tank; placing an overlay having an aperture therein onto an opening to an interior space of a vehicle sufficient for sealing the opening; connecting a conduit between the outlet of the tank and the aperture of the overlay sealing the interior space of the vehicle; and exhausting the smaller particles within the plurality of particles formed in the atomized fog from the outlet into the interior space of a vehicle.