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

项目摘要 西北大学比较医学中心(CCM)是全校的 动物护理和住房单位。CCM收藏了各种各样的研究动物物种和 支持埃文斯顿和芝加哥校园的笼子清洗设施。CCM的19年- 旧的Pancoe笼子清洗设施是埃文斯顿校区唯一的笼子清洗设施。 翻新这个笼子清洗设施的计划正在进行中，提供了一个寻找一个 解决人工清除床上污物的过程。目前CCM工作人员都是手工操作 从笼子里倾倒被污染的床上用品，使用一个向下通风的倾倒站，收集被污染的东西 床上用品被装进袋子里。然后手动抬起垃圾箱，并将弄脏的床上用品袋 被扔进散装手推车。沉重的散装马车，装满了被污染的床上用品废物，然后 每天手动运送几次，通过公共走廊和电梯送到垃圾桶 位于毗邻大楼的码头上。这个项目的目标是实现现代化和 改善Pancoe笼式清洗设施的污物处理，方法是购买 新的西北系统公司Sure-Flo S200系列污秽床上用品去除系统。这 污垢床上用品清除系统采用管状拖链设计。此设计使用 连续的一系列圆盘，通过输送管道输送被污染的动物被褥和 从笼子洗手间到指定的废物集装箱房间的材料。这被弄脏的床上用品 拆卸系统将减少人工工序，从而增加整体保持架搬运 Pancoe笼式清洗设施的容量和运营效率。此外，这一新的 设备将减少员工受伤和接触过敏原的可能性，因为垃圾场 空间站将设计有一个下吸单元，当集成时，它可以捕获灰尘和过敏原 与灰尘收集单元一起工作。弄脏的床上用品将立即被装好并运送 通过管道进入密闭的散装推车，从而减少了大量的移动 厚重的、沾满污垢的散装被褥大车穿过走廊。美国国立卫生研究院资助 这项提议将在这些方面使调查人员受益，并通过增加总体笼子 处理能力，从而允许研究计划的增长和新教师的招聘 去那所大学。

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.