DECONTAMINATION AND TREATMENT OF RED BAG WASTE

描述(改编自申请者摘要)：每年在美国 医院产生了超过71.6万吨受监管的生物医疗废物， 实验室和诊所。安全、经济和安全地处置这些废物 在环境指导方针中，这是一个日益严重的问题。普遍接受的方法 废物处理，如焚烧、高压灭菌、蒸汽灭菌，以及 非现场发货，现在是公众关注的目标，并更加严格 监管控制。美国环保署新的清洁空气法案医疗标准 焚烧厂可能会关闭全国3700座焚烧炉中的80% 医院焚烧炉，因此，迫切需要高效的 医疗废物的处理。这项提议涉及一种新的冷绝育方法。 使用气相过氧化氢处理的技术 感染性废物。这种灭菌工艺的成本优势超过 现有的方法，许可要求最低，因为没有 气体或液体排放，它在常温下运行，操作员 责任微乎其微。在一期工程中，进行了试点规模的现场处理 每天可处理数百磅医疗废物的装置 将被开发和评估。 建议的商业应用：不可用

DESCRIPTION (Adapted from Applicant's Abstract): Each year in the United States over 716,000 tons of regulated biomedical waste are generated by hospitals, laboratories and clinics. Disposal of these wastes safely, economically, and within environmental guidelines is a growing problem. Commonly accepted methods of waste treatment such as incineration, autoclaving, steam sterilization, and shipment off site, are now targets of public concern and more stringent regulatory control. The EPA new Clean Air Act standards for medical incinerators will likely shut down 80 percent of the nation's 3,700 on-site hospital incinerators and, therefore, there is an urgent need for efficient treatment for medical waste. This proposal concerns a new cold sterilization technique that uses vapor phase hydrogen peroxide for the treatment of infectious waste. This sterilization process offers cost advantages over existing methods, permitting requirements are minimal because there are no gaseous or liquid emissions, it operates at ambient temperatures, and operator liability is minimal. In the Phase I project, a pilot scale on-site treatment unit with a capacity to treat several hundred pounds of medical waste per day will be developed and evaluated. PROPOSED COMMERCIAL APPLICATION: NOT AVAILABLE