Welcome to the web presentation 

of the Project

HYMED

New Hygiene Services in Medical Device Cleaning and Reprocessing by the Use of

Liquid Carbon Dioxide and Extremphile Enzymes

Project HYMED (Cornet 32 EN) is a bi-national research project between Germany and Turkey funded by the Cornet programme.

Involved partners are:

FRT - European Cleaning and Hygiene Technology Research Association, DE (project coordinator)

and

the ad-hoc grouping of  companies entitled MENT - Modified Enzyme Technlologies, TR

Research work of the project is carried out by the research performers

        wfk - Cleaning Technology Research Institute, DE

and

   ITU - Istanbul Technical University, TR

Scope of HYMED

Aim of HYMED is the development of new processes for the reprocessing of thermo-labile medical devices. Instruments such as e.g. flexible endoscopes and many others are sensitive to elevated temperatures and can only be processes at gentle temperatures below 60 °C. Within HYMED novel innovative procedures will be developed using highly compressed carbon dioxide (dense phase CO₂, DPCO₂). To improve the cleaning performance of DPCO₂ new enzyme systems are developed that boost the removal of lipids and proteinaceous soiling on instruments. Suitable enzymes have to exhibit high activity and stability within the medium DPCO₂ and are not available yet.

Features of DPCO₂

Will be continued shortly

For detailled information please contact:

Dr. Markus Wehrl

wfk-Cleaning Technology Research Institute

Campus Fichtenhain 11

Phone: ++49-2151-8210-170

Email: m.wehrl(at)wfk.de