How Should Water and Wastewater Treatment Systems Be Suitable for the Needs of Hospitals and Dialysis Centers?

To eliminate the threats posed by these wastes and make them reusable, healthcare institutions can provide solutions with wastewater treatment systems. In addition, healthy institutions need medical water purification systems to use healthy, reliable and quality water. Quality water, especially in dialysis treatments, plays a vital role in the survival of patients.

Water is the cornerstone of human life. We need natural minerals found in abundance in water in order for our bone tissues to gain strength, for the enzymes and vitamins in our body to continue our vital activities, for our muscle tissues to contract and relax, and for our nerve cells to maintain regular functionality.

Thanks to medical treatment technologies, unwanted organic and inorganic pollutants in the water are removed by imitating nature. The formation of bacteria and microorganisms is prevented. Waste liquids are recycled. Recycled water has many uses in the health sector.

hospitals, dialysis centers, rehabilitation centers, veterinary clinics, polyclinics, mobile health service providers, mobile or container type hospitals established in disaster areas, laboratories, oral and dental health clinics, autoanalyzer devices and autoclave devices.

The Ministry-approved "Water Purification Regulation", water purification and distribution systems must be installed by an authorized technical service that has received the TSE 12426 Service Qualification Certificate ( SQC - RULES STANDARD FOR MEDICAL DEVICES) and authorized by the company. Pure water should be monitored regularly. It is mandatory to record the conductivity, acidity-alkalinity, pH values, chlorine amount and softness values of purified water.

RİVAMED, with our commitment to sustainable environment and clean water resources in all healthcare institutions, we design and project medical water purification devices with easy-to-use units with current technological features that have the capacity to produce pure water that meets the appropriate flow rate, pressure and temperature.

RİVAMED brand is our own production and uses technologies that comply with the specified regulations and quality standards. We are a brand that specializes in the design, manufacturing, assembly, service and commissioning of purpose-built general water and wastewater treatment facilities and is a leader in our industry.

What Should the Technologies Used in Medical Water Purification Systems Be Like?

• The content of the water needs to be analyzed in detail. There should be devices that can operate the most efficient input and output water values in accordance with water analyses.
• Current technologies should be used.
• Design should be made with high-tech devices that have the capacity to provide effective solutions to every stage from water production to consumption.
• It must have the ability to produce pure water to meet the hospital's specific flow rate, pressure, temperature and capacity.
• Medical water treatment systems technologies must be able to produce water that meets the criteria or values that businesses need, in addition to ensuring that the water is clean, safe and of high quality.
• Design should be made according to contaminant values suitable for businesses.
• While designing the devices that will form the system, the storage tanks and pressurization set must be prepared specifically for the operation.
• Duplex softening mechanism, carbon filtration and backwash sand filtration mechanisms must be suitable for the purpose and adjustable.
• It determines the design, installation, consumables and technical services of medical water treatment systems. Therefore, it should be designed with correct analysis and evaluations.
• The content of gray water varies depending on the areas served by health institutions or hospitals, the number of employees, the number of people receiving service, the chemicals used in treatments and the substances used in cleaning. All these varying parameters should be evaluated as a whole. It should be designed with devices that will provide effective solutions after evaluations.
• It must comply with the regulations.
• Hospitals are environments prone to the spread of viruses. That's why disinfection systems must show high performance. Disinfection devices that can disinfect liquid medical waste in the best possible way and prevent the formation of bacteria should be used.
• A solution should be provided with Neutralization and Disinfection devices that will prevent the spread of viruses.
• In order for softening systems to soften at the desired values, the ions in the water must be determined correctly. It should be well determined which of the ion exchange resin methods will be used to soften.
• In the physical treatment process, a solution should be provided with filtration systems that will remove all pollutants from the environment. Different filtration techniques must be combined depending on the characteristics of the substances to be removed from the water.
• It is necessary to purify the precipitation, coagulation and flocculation processes as needed by adding chemicals at pH values appropriate to the parameters of the waste liquids.
• Waste liquids should be left or reused without harming the nature.
• Tanks and control panels must protect the quality of the water and be able to monitor the performance of the technologies.
• The limits reported in the European Union Pharmacopoeia in Annex-1 should be taken into account in the chemical and bacteriological control of the water used in the dilution of hemodialysis solutions . Compliance with TS 266 drinking water standards is required for hemodialysis applications. Compliance with the bacteriological and chemical limits specified in the standards is required. Compatibility is achieved with medical water purification.
• Organizations that provide medical treatment services should be preferred in order to design systems with an accurate evaluation in accordance with pre-installation water analyzes in Dialysis Centers.

Units Installed in RİVAMED Medical Purification Systems
 

Reverse Osmosis: RİVAMED brand Reverse Osmosis devices have a Class IIb , CE certificate in accordance with Annex 9 Rule 11 of the 93/42/EEC Active Medical Device Directive, one of the relevant conditions of the Ministry of Health Medical Device Directive.

It is one of the most effective technologies. It works with membranes that are among the latest technological innovations in our industry. Very sensitive reverse osmosis membranes filter out unwanted microorganisms, minerals and substances. Provides up to 99% salt removal. Effectively filters toxins and heavy metals.

It is widely used in dialysis units. The working principle is that dissolved substances in the molecular structure of water are filtered thanks to filters and membranes. Thus, water quality increases. It becomes ready to be used in hemodialysis treatment. Dialysis machines filter the patient's blood and remove harmful waste materials, excess salt and fluid from the body. Therefore, it is a device that is one of the latest technological innovations that plays a very important role in obtaining pure water.

Deionization: It is used in design to deionize. It is used to obtain pure water in laboratories. Deionization and Mixed Bed units are very effective.

- Deionization method.

- Mixed Bed technique is a technique that involves the combination of both cation and anion deionization .

- Pure water required for sensitive analyzes and experiments can be obtained thanks to these systems.

Neutralization and Disinfection: Neutralization balances the pH levels of acidic or basic chemicals. It transforms chemical waste into harmless waste. Wastewater treatment is carried out successfully with the combination of acid, base and disinfectants with ozone.

Disinfection: It destroys or neutralizes microorganisms. It is of vital importance in terms of its ability to prevent the spread of disease in hospitals. Depending on the need, disinfection units are installed in three different ways: ultraviolet, chlorine and ozone methods.

Ultraviolet (UV) Disinfection: It is the process of neutralizing the DNA of microorganisms by disrupting them, thanks to UV rays, without requiring the use of chemicals and without changing the taste or salt.

Ozone Disinfection: It is used to both remove bad odors and clean. Ozone is a powerful oxidizing agent. An oxidizing agent is used to neutralize harmful microorganisms.

Carbon Filtration: Activated carbon filters are used to remove contaminants, chlorine and unwanted organic substances. Colour, taste, odor, organic matter, chlorine and H2S are removed.

Micro Filters: Removes some microorganisms and particles that cause micron-sized pollution.

Sterilization: We meet the need with sterilization devices that we manufacture under the Rivamed brand.

As RİVAMED, we offer efficient, reliable customized solutions to healthcare institutions with our medical devices. We provide quality and functional services to our customers in all kinds of hospital projects with our wide product range.

RİVAMED brand is a CE Certificated technology that will perform appropriate purification based on the Turkish Ministry of Health Hemodialysis Water Purification Directive and the values in the European Pharmacopoeia .

The HD-RO and RM models we produce under our RİVAMED brand are our own production. We create systems with software in line with the needs of businesses with our CE-certified devices in accordance with the Medical Devices Directive (MDD) 93/42/EC, which can provide the highest quality dialysis water in accordance with AMMI, ANSI and ISO standards.

RİVATEC industrial water purification systems in sectors other than the medical and health sector.