Electron Beam Sterilization of Infectious Hospital Waste

这一奖项是为了支持第一阶段的研究，以确定使用电子束对医院废物进行灭菌的可行性。导致该奖项的提案是针对NSF 91-20，小型企业创新研究(SBIR)提交的。该项目包括确定将电子束加速器整合到医院废物处理流中的可行性，将废料粉碎后适当地呈现给横梁，并配置整体设计、资金和运营成本。为了提高成本效益，现在用于医院废物消毒和灭菌的化学和物理程序通常需要分离传染性从非感染性废物中。这项研究的结果预计将确定拟议概念的技术可行性和潜在的继续这项研究进入了随后的第二阶段。

This award is to support Phase I research to determine the feasibility of using an electron beam for sterilization of hospital wastes. The proposal leading to this award was submitted in response to NSF 91-20, Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR). This project involves determination of the feasibility of integrating an electron beam accelerator into a hospital's waste handling stream, shredding the waste for appropriate presentation to the beam, and configuration of the overall design, capital and operating costs. For cost-effectiveness, chemical and physical procedures now used for disinfection and sterilization of hospital wastes generally require separation of infectious from noninfectious wastes. Results of this research are expected to determine the technical feasibility of the proposed concept and the basis for potential continuation of this research into a subsequent Phase II.