Design Considerations for Efflluent Treatment in Bio Containment Facilities

• published: 19 Mar 2015
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Initial recording 12/11/14 Today’s world of biosafety is even more important considering globalization and risks associated with current outbreaks such as Ebola and others that we have seen over the past years and very recently. Infection centers, hospital isolation wards, biosafety facilities, university research labs, and support research functions of pharmaceutical production and its waste treatment possibly and often require an efficient, reliable system with validation capability. Our customers need to evaluate the most suitable equipment design by looking at the design criteria of the facility (BSL-classification 1-4), the required efficacy against the pathogen classified for the process as worst case, equipment capacity, holding volume, footprint, serviceability, cleanability, validation capabilities and methodology, risk assessment, controls and remote controls, alarming systems and any redundancy features to mitigate any risks associated to persons or environment. This presentation will present many key considerations required for designing an effluent treatment system up to BSL-4 biohazardous containment area classification. The most important for your process, is to meet the safety requirements with minimized risk factors in process safety, employee safety and environmental safety – and to be able to validate your system efficacy in a reliable way