Modernization of the Pancoe Cage Wash Facility with a New Soiled Bedding Removal System

Pancoe 笼式清洗设施的现代化改造，配备新的脏垫料去除系统

• 批准号: 10733609
• 负责人: LISA A FORMAN
• 金额: $ 35万
• 依托单位: NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-07-01 至 2024-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10733609
• 关键词: 19 year old; Allergens; Animal Experimentation; Animal Housing; Animals; Beds; Censuses; Chicago; Collection; Docking; Dust; Elevator; Employee; Equipment; Excision; Exposure to; Faculty; Faculty Recruitment; Funding; Goals; Injury; Lifting; Manuals; Medicine; Modernization; Movement; Odors; Process; Research; Research Personnel; Rodent; Safety; Scientific Advances and Accomplishments; Series; Soil; System; Tubular formation; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; animal care; animal facility; comparative; design; equipment acquisition; improved; operation; programs; recruit; wasting

Project Summary The Center for Comparative Medicine (CCM), at Northwestern University, is the university-wide animal care and housing unit. CCM houses a wide variety of research animal species and supports cage washing facilities on both the Evanston and Chicago campuses. CCM’s 19-year- old Pancoe cage washing facility is the sole cage washing facility on the Evanston campus. Plans are underway to renovate this cage washing facility, providing an opportunity to find a solution to the manual soiled bedding removal process. Currently CCM staff are manually dumping soiled bedding from cages, using a down draft dump station, which collects the soiled bedding into bagged bins. The bins are then manually lifted, and soiled bedding bags are dumped into bulk carts. The heavy bulk carts, filled with soiled bedding waste, are then manually transported several times a day, through public hallways and elevators to a dumpster located on a dock in an adjoining building. The objective of this project is to modernize and improve the soiled bedding handling of the Pancoe cage wash facility, through the purchase of a new Northwestern Systems Corp Sure-Flo S200 Series Soiled Bedding Removal System. This soiled bedding removal system utilizes a tubular drag-chain design. This design uses a continuous series of discs pulled through a transport pipe to convey soiled animal bedding and materials from the cage washroom to a designated waste container room. This soiled bedding removal system will reduce manual processes, thereby increasing the overall cage handling capacity and operational efficiencies of the Pancoe cage wash facility. Additionally, this new equipment will reduce potential for employee injury and allergen exposure, because the dump station will be designed with a downdraft unit that captures dust and allergens, when integrated with the dust collection unit. The soiled bedding will be immediately contained and conveyed through the piping into contained bulk carts, thus eliminating a significant amount of movement of the heavy soiled bedding bulk carts through corridors. National Institutes of Health funding of this proposal will in these ways benefit investigators as well as by increasing overall cage handling capacity, thereby allowing research programs to grow and new faculty to be recruited to the university.

项目概要 西北大学比较医学中心 (CCM) 动物护理和住房单位。 CCM 拥有多种研究动物物种 支持埃文斯顿和芝加哥校区的笼子清洗设施。 CCM的19年- 老潘科笼子清洗设施是埃文斯顿校区唯一的笼子清洗设施。 改造这个笼子清洗设施的计划正在进行中，这提供了一个寻找 解决手动清除脏床上用品过程的问题。目前CCM工作人员都是手动 使用向下通风倾倒站从笼子中倾倒脏垫料，该站收集脏垫料 将床上用品放入袋装垃圾箱中。然后手动抬起垃圾箱，并将脏的床上用品袋清理掉。 倾倒到散装手推车中。然后，装满肮脏的床上用品废物的重型散装车 每天多次通过公共走廊和电梯手动运输至垃圾箱 位于毗邻建筑物的码头上。该项目的目标是现代化和 通过购买 全新 Northwestern Systems Corp Sure-Flo S200 系列污染垫料去除系统。这 脏垫料清除系统采用管状拖链设计。该设计使用了一个 一系列连续的圆盘通过运输管道拉动，以输送弄脏的动物垫料和 材料从笼子洗手间运至指定的废物容器室。这脏兮兮的被褥 清除系统将减少人工流程，从而增加笼子的整体处理量 Pancoe 笼式清洗设施的容量和运营效率。此外，这个新 设备将减少员工受伤和过敏原暴露的可能性，因为垃圾场 站将设计有一个下吸式装置，集成时可捕获灰尘和过敏原 与集尘装置。弄脏的垫料将立即被收容并运送 通过管道进入封闭的散装推车，从而消除大量的移动 脏兮兮的散装床上用品推车穿过走廊。美国国立卫生研究院资助 该提案将以这些方式使研究人员受益，并通过增加总体笼子 处理能力，从而使研究项目得以发展并招募新教师 到大学。