INVESTIGATION OF BIOMEDICAL WASTE TREATMENT TECHNOLOGIES THROUGH VARIOUS APPROACHES Presented By: ASHISH RAJ R AKSHAYA B D MANOJ KUMAR N S NAVEEN S UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF Prof. Narendra Kumar
INTRODUCTION “Bio-medical waste “ means any waste , which is generated during the diagnosis ,treatment ,Immunization of human beings & animals research activities in health campus. Proper management and handling of hazardous waste is of prime importance today. To minimize these problems many efforts have been done or are being done at the international level. For safe and scientific management of biomedical waste, handling, segregation, mutilation, disinfection, storage, transportation and finally disposal are vital steps for any health care institution. In developed countries all the institutions related to the health problem are adopting these vital steps. Investigating on new medical waste treatment methods by utilizing heat, chemicals or IR-radiation and many other possible ways to provided potential alternate solutions to the medical waste treatment/disposal problem.
AUTHOR NAME OF JOURNAL DESCRIPTION P. V. Deshmukh & R.H RATHOD Biomedical Waste Management (June 2016 ) It focuses various terminologies of biomedical waste management and disposal of clinical waste in private hospitals in India. This also includes waste transportation, waste accumulation and storage, waste minimization techniques. A major problem related to current Bio-Medical waste management in several hospitals is that the implementation of Bio-Waste regulation is disappointing as some hospitals are disposing of waste in a haphazard, improper and indiscriminate manner. Inadequate Bio-Medical waste, the recycling of throw away syringes, needles and other article like glass bottles without proper sterilization are accountable for Hepatitis, HIV, and other viral diseases. He suggested need for education as to the hazards associated with improper waste disposal.
AUTHOR NAME OF JOURNAL DESCRIPTION Dr. A.Irin Sutha An analytical study on medical waste management in selected hospitals located in Chennai city. (Feb 2018) Hospital medical waste was collected by cleaning personnel who picked up the medical waste from completely different departments and transported it manually to a temporary storage area where the hospital waste was kept before being taken to the final disposal place as most of time general waste will be mixed with medical waste, and this area was poorly sanitized and not secure. Stated steps for safe management of bio medical waste are handling, segregation, mutilation, disinfection, storage, transportation and final disposal. incineration, autoclave hydroclave are the technologies to reduce the harm of bio medical waste.
AUTHOR NAME OF JOURNAL DESCRIPTION KLAUS Zimmermann Microwave as an emerging technology for the treatment of bio hazardous waste (Feb 2017) Microwave devices are an effective tool for the inactivation of bio hazardous waste as long as sophisticated microwave technologies are utilized. To avoid the spreading of pathogenic micro organisms during transport, the waste should preferably be inactivated either directly at the place where it is generated or transported only in appropriate closed systems. Moreover, micro-wave is a possibility to save energy costs in comparison to the more widely used autoclave technologies, thus leading to a reduced carbon footprint. In this respect, segregation between contaminated and non-contaminated waste and the subsequen t inactivation of contaminated parts helps to further reduce the car-bon footprint. Sophisticated microwave technology might also bear advantages for microwave-assisted processes requiring the control of water content.
PROBLEM STATEMENT Injuries from sharps to the staff and waste handlers associated to the health care facilities. Hospital acquired infection to patients due to spread of infections from improper preliminary treatment of medical waste. Occupational risk associated with hazardous chemicals,drugs,unauthorized repacking and sale of disposed items and unused/ date expired drugs. Bacterial contamination represents the highest and most immediate health risk and water is main carrier. Infection due to unsafe injection practice affects 8-16 million people causing Hepatitis B&C and also HIV/AIDS for75000 to 150000 people. Several health hazards are associated with poor management and disposal of bio medical waste at different level of operational process. Some of the problems are mentioned below.
We are focusing and studying on the problem of Biomedical waste disposal in mega cities like Bangalore , Its Engineering solution, starting from collection, segregation, transportation and suitable treatment in the concept of generating energy from medical waste . Expected Outcome Increased efficiency of the treatment technologies. Reduction in sludge formation after treatment. Increased energy generation .
Objectives 1. To prevent transmission of disease from patient to patient, from patient to health worker and vice versa. 2. To prevent injury to the health care worker and workers and workers in support services, while handling biomedical waste . 3 . Main concern is to reduce air pollution and land pollution, to eliminate heavy load of biomedical waste in the cities. 4 . Generating energy in the form of electricity or bio-fuel, biogas or heat form etc. 5 . Finding appropriate energy efficient sustainable treatment for waste and its safe disposal
METHODOLOGY Generation Segregation @ source Temporary storage area storage Off-site transportation Off-site treatment/ disposal Collection & on-site transportation AUTO CLAVING CHEMICAL TREATMENT MICRO WAVE TREATMENT Incineration Land Disposal 1 Yellow Bins(Infectious waste) 2. Red Bins(Contaminated waste) 3.White Bins(Metallic Waste) 4.Blue Bins(Glass ware, Metallic Body implants On-site treatment/ disposal
Name:- Maridi Eco Industries Pvt Ltd About Treatment Plant Waste treated 6-7 tonnes per day It covers around 4500 HCEs(hospitals ,blood banks,health centres)
Project Schedule Reference Maridi Eco Industries Pvt Ltd CPHEEO Manual on Bio Medical Waste Management and Disposal. Biomedical Waste Management (by PV Deshmukh & R.H RATHOD) An analytical study on medical waste management in selected hospitals located in Chennai city.(Dr. A.Irin Sutha) Microwave as an emerging technology for the treatment of bio hazardous waste . ( KLAUS Zimmermann ) September 2018 Identification of Project and Submission of Synopsis October 2018 Plant visit and collecting of primary data November 2018 Project First Review January 2019 Plant visit and detailed data collection February 2019 Studying and Analyzing of Treatment Techniques March 2019 Report Preparation April 2019 Project Final Review