Improving C-Tube productivity and durability

提高 C 型管生产率和耐用性

• 批准号: 10040122
• 金额: $ 3.82万
• 依托单位: KORN WALL LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10040122
• 关键词: Improving; Tube; productivity; durability

KwickScreen believes that every nurse and every patient has the right to be confident in their safety in a hospital. Patients should feel confident that they are entering a hygienic, safe space where their welfare is the top priority. Nurses should have equipment that can make their lives easier so they can focus on patients. The NHS uses curtains in wards to provide patient privacy. Collectively they use ~500,000 curtains/year in a market worth £150million/year to KwickScreen. Disposable curtains are incredibly damaging to the environment as they require substantial quantities of plastic and are incinerated after a couple weeks of use. This regime has four consequences: (1) ~70kgCO2e/bed/year is produced from disposal/replacement; (2) costs of ~£638/bed/year are incurred, which encourages hospitals to reduce the change-frequency; (3) Healthcare-associated infection risk increases because patients inherit a used curtain; (4) additional time is allocated to servicing instead of patients. KwickScreen products are designed to be long lasting and easy to clean in-situ, making them a much better choice for the environment and to save cost long-term.During a recent survey conducted by UCLH, 80% of existing end users (hospital staff) agree/strongly agree that KwickScreen products are easy to operate, environmentally friendly, and provide an additional layer of defence against infection control with a physical barrier.KwickScreen's retractable screens are made possible by its proprietary split tube extendable members, called C-Tubes. These tubes are retractable/rollable. They provide both horizontal and vertical support for the partition screens when extended to any length from 0 to 3.2m.In this project, KwickScreen will partner with the Newton Gateway to Mathematics, KwickScreen to develop a model of the physical properties of C-Tubes from first principles. This ground-up model of C-Tubes will help determine how to improve C-Tubes' endurance. The model will be used to inform material selection and manufacturing processes going forward for the next generation of C-Tubes. KwickScreen will additionally partner with the National Physical Laboratory to characterise the failure modes for existing C-Tubes. New durability tests will be designed and the information these tests generate will be used to improve the current generation of C-Tubes. These practical tests will feed into the first principles model and create synergies that would otherwise not be possible for any of the consortium members alone.

KuickScreen认为，每一名护士和每一名患者都有权对自己在医院的安全充满信心。患者应该相信，他们正在进入一个卫生、安全的空间，在这个空间，他们的福利是最重要的。护士应该有能让他们的生活变得更容易的设备，这样他们就可以专注于病人。NHS在病房里使用窗帘来保护患者的隐私。他们每年总共使用约500,000块窗帘，市场价值1.5亿GB/年。一次性窗帘对环境的破坏令人难以置信，因为它们需要大量的塑料，使用几周后就会被焚烧。这一制度有四个后果：(1)处理/更换产生了~70kgCO2e/床/年；(2)产生了~638 GB/床/年的成本，这鼓励医院减少更换频率；(3)由于患者继承了旧窗帘，与医疗保健相关的感染风险增加；(4)额外的时间被分配给服务而不是患者。KuickScreen产品的设计经久耐用，易于就地清洁，使其成为更好的环境选择，并长期节省成本。在UCLH最近进行的一项调查中，80%的现有最终用户(医院工作人员)同意/强烈同意KuickScreen产品易于操作、环境友好，并通过物理屏障提供额外的一层防御感染控制。KuickScreen的可伸缩屏幕是由其专有的分裂管可伸缩构件C管实现的。这些管子是可伸缩/可滚动的。在这个项目中，KuickScreen将与牛顿数学之门合作，根据第一原理开发C管的物理性质的模型。这一C管的地面模型将有助于确定如何提高C管的耐力。该模型将被用于指导下一代C-Tube的材料选择和制造工艺。此外，KuickScreen还将与国家物理实验室合作，以确定现有C-管的故障模式。将设计新的耐久性测试，这些测试产生的信息将用于改进当前一代的C-Tube。这些实际测试将纳入第一原则模式，并产生协同效应，否则仅对任何联盟成员都是不可能的。