Human & Food Waste Handling
Human Waste Handling
When it comes to the safe handling of human and food waste in healthcare or commercial environment, we understand the issues surrounding precision control of sterilization and safety systems.
CASE STUDY
Bedpan Sanitiser
In an intensive and aged care institutions, the safe emptying and sanitizing of bedpans is of major concern to healthcare workers. So a leading Australian company chose PNE to develop control systems for their heavy-duty sanitizers that addressed the failings of many other imported products.
With features such as electric door openers that sense whether the door is closed tight enough before starting the steam clean process, a safety interlock system that stops or re-opens the door if it detects a jam, and automatic cleaning cycle control that ensures steam is delivered at the right temperature for the right duration of time to ensure mandatory requirements are met for this hospital-grade device, this essential behind-the-scenes service is now faster, more efficient, and safer for operators, helping make our customer’s range an industry leader.
Food Waste Handling
With food waste being a major contributor to landfill, we’ve worked with innovators in this field to create solutions for more effective handling of waste created in commercial kitchens to prevent this resource going to waste.
CASE STUDY
Commercial Food Waste Digister
When an innovative waste handling company recognized that commercial food waste couldn’t continue to be dumped in landfill and that it had commercial value if it could be pulped and resold to bio generator companies as a source of methane and animal feed, they attempted to build a waste disposal unit using PLCs, or Programmable Logic Controllers.
Using the lessons learned in developing the steam sanitizer, we delivered a compact, push-button control system that offered greater control over water usage, greater grinding efficiencies, and greater levels of user safety, than was ever possible with PLCs. The result was a product with electric door openers, in-built safety features including the ability to determine if the unit had been loaded with cutlery and not just food waste (a common occurrence in commercial kitchens as it turned out!) and thus avoid damage to the grinding mechanism, as well as an on-board data-logger that would contact the waste company and request that the tank be emptied a day or two prior to the unit determining the tank would be full, based on the previous weeks history of usage.
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