Product Overview: Biodegradeable Blood Bags
Design
Components
Components
Modeled using CAD and Blender, our biodegradable blood bags feature a traditional, yet innovative design. Our primary focus is the bag body, resembling a nearly oval-shaped pouch. The tubing, ports, clamps and hooks use loopcuts for sharp edges, allowing for functionality when connected to other medical devices. They must be heat sealed t
Modeled using CAD and Blender, our biodegradable blood bags feature a traditional, yet innovative design. Our primary focus is the bag body, resembling a nearly oval-shaped pouch. The tubing, ports, clamps and hooks use loopcuts for sharp edges, allowing for functionality when connected to other medical devices. They must be heat sealed to the bag body. The final component is accurate labeling dimensions accounting for blood type, volume, lot number, expiration date, and barcode.
Components
Components
Components
The composition of the bag is to be made with areca palm leaves, polyethylene terephthalate (PET) biofilms, and alpha-chitin fibers – all biodegradable OR recyclable materials. The combination of these materials ensures a high level of impermeability to gases and liquids to prevent contamination and ensure the integrity of the blood compo
The composition of the bag is to be made with areca palm leaves, polyethylene terephthalate (PET) biofilms, and alpha-chitin fibers – all biodegradable OR recyclable materials. The combination of these materials ensures a high level of impermeability to gases and liquids to prevent contamination and ensure the integrity of the blood components. As per lab testing, additional additives including citrate esters plasticizers or polylactic acid compatibilizers/stabilizers may be added to the matrix to achieve utmost meshing and impermeability.
Execution
Components
Execution
In order to create a working prototype, extensive laboratory research is required to identify desired ratios for the primary components – areca palm leaves, PET biofilms, and alpha-chitin fiber – as well as for the additional meterials including plasticizers and stabilizers. This composite mixture has two ways of producing our desired bag
In order to create a working prototype, extensive laboratory research is required to identify desired ratios for the primary components – areca palm leaves, PET biofilms, and alpha-chitin fiber – as well as for the additional meterials including plasticizers and stabilizers. This composite mixture has two ways of producing our desired bag: (1) The mixture can be further treated using methods like compression molding, extrusion, or 3D printing. (2) Using PET resin (instead of PET biofilms), we create a compound mixture. Then, we extrude this compound through a machine. Finally, we put it through a die to flatten it out and create a plastic which we can mold.