Freeze free vaccine carriers

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Freeze free vaccine carriers for outreach
Dr Ümit Kartoglu, MD, DPH TechNet Tunis
consultation 2-4 December 2008, Tunisia
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photo by a berlinger
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The problem Outreach
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Need of cold
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The challenge
Freeze sensitive vaccines
Freeze-dried vaccines
OPV
2 days
Diluents
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The revolution
A cold box/vaccine carrier that you cannot sit on
it
Operation Lifeline Sudan Rumbek airstrip, June
2000
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The alternative
"Inflatable internal heat barrier" for
temperature sensitive products
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The airliner
Honeycomb structure
Airliner inhibiting all 3 types of heat
transfer Convection Radiation Conduction
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The comparison
Performance levels of conventional and advanced
insulations
conventional
advanced
Source Berkeley University, California 2003
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The savings
Reduced shipping and handling space and cost
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The life cycle analysis
Assumption 3 million airliner replacing EPS
containers
Volume of waste saved would fill 28 Olympic
swimming pools
Energy saved would boil 201 million cups of coffee
CO2 emission would be reduced by 3,340 t (1,540
cars)
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The fun part - assembly
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The lab test
E04 verification protocol for new PQS performance
specifications
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PIS E04/102-M PIS E04/103-M PIS E04/104-M
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The field test Sudan (40 vials x 10 doses in
4lt with 4x0.6lt icepacks)
23 hrs 56 min
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The field test Sudan (51 vials x 10 doses in
7lt with 4x0.6lt icepacks)
24 hrs 21 min
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The field test - Sudan (51 vials x 10 doses in
7lt with 4x0.6lt icepacks)
24 hrs 21 min
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Thanks
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