Development of a novel system for medical waste

该项目提供了一种新的解决方案，以减少与处置皮下注射器和其他医疗“利器”相关的成本、环境影响和危害。解决方案涉及开发一种新型的PyroPure技术。PyroPure是一种独特的，创新的，微型废物处理和能源回收系统。待开发的改型将具有适合医院安装处理医疗利器废物的容量和性能特点。开发的PyroPure系统将与用于存放废利器的容器的开发相结合，以大幅降低所涉及的总体成本，同时能够从该过程中回收金属和能量。该解决方案在医院的全球市场估计为6亿英镑，包括缺乏医疗废物处理基础设施的国家在内，有大量出口机会。因此，这将有助于减少这些国家因未完全消毒和销毁针头而造成的高感染率。

This project offers a new solution to reduce the cost, environmental impact and hazardsassociated with disposal of hypodermic syringes and other medical ‘sharps’. The solutioninvolves development of a novel variant of the PyroPure technology. PyroPure is a unique,innovative, micro-scale waste disposal and energy recovery system. The variant to bedeveloped will have a suitable capacity and performance characteristics for installation athospitals to process medical sharps waste.The developed PyroPure system will be coupled with developments to the containers used tohold waste sharps in order to reduce the overall costs involved substantially whilst enablingthe recovery of metal and energy from the process.This global market for this solution in hospitals is estimated at £600 million and there aresubstantial export opportunities including countries that lack medical waste handlinginfrastructure. Hence this will contribute to reducing the high levels of infections in suchcountries caused by needles that have not been fully sterilised and destroyed.