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Vyleater Solutions
The Vyleater has been used by a variety of companies and organizations for all types of applications.
Customize your Vyleater with...
- Internal wash system for rinsing, sanitizing or neutralizing
- Explosion proof electrical fittings for work in hazardous environments
- Liquid discharge directly into a sewer or pipeline
- Automatic loading conveyor
- Platform with casters to make the unit portable
- HEPA/charcoal filtration
Please follow the links below to learn how we have provided real-life solutions to our customers waste disposal problems.
| Industry: | Diagnostic Laboratories |
| Problem: | Reduce disposal cost related to ThinPrep© disposal |
| The ThinPrep© system is used to improve the accuracy of reading PAP smears. Developed by the Cytyc Corporation (http://www.cytyc.com), the ThinPrep© vial contains a mixture of methanol and water that suspends & preserves the specimen collected by a woman’s doctor. After the vial reaches a testing laboratory, the Cytyc system extracts a filtered sample from the vial and deposits it onto a microscope slide so a cytotechnologist can read it.
The result is a significant increase in the accuracy of diagnosis.
ThinPrep© disposal however, is a real problem. The remaining methanol and water mixture is usually classified as a chemical waste. But, the 50-ml vial usually contains less than 15-ml of fluid.
Before the Vyleater, these labs had two choices:
- Packing the vials into drums and paying a waste hauler thousands of dollars to dispose of what it in reality is only a few gallons of waste per drum.
- The time consuming and dangerous task of manually opening these small vials just to collect a few cc’s of methanol.
Neither method addresses another important issue – patient privacy. Each vial contains important patient identification details that have to be destroyed before disposal.
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| Solution: | Enhanced Vyleater with Explosion-proof motors & controls |
| The ENHANCED VYLEATER MODEL II-XE makes the disposal of plastic ThinPrep® containers easy. The operator can load as many as 120 vials at a time – with a typical batch being shredded in less than 2 minutes.
Methanol vapor that is created during shredding, is controlled and directed with the built-in blower through a vent collar and is usually ducted to the outside.
The plastic ThinPrep vials break apart easily – completely obliterating all patient ID labels and other lab information.
After shredding, the vial remnants are shaken and moved down the length of the vibrating screen, which then further drains and conveys the plastic waste into a plastic bag. When allowed to air dry, the methanol leaves no residue on the shredded plastic and this can be thrown away as trash.
After being removed from the vials, the bulk methanol is collected externally in small containers – usually 5-gallon pails or 15-gallon drums.
Most labs realize an 80% reduction in waste disposal costs and a payback of 1-2 years depending upon their volume.
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