Medical Waste Management in Dentistry through Enzyme Fuel Cells

ISBN-13: 9783659907289 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 68 str.

Fabio Luciani; Paolo Piva

Opis

Although waste is traditionally assessed as a polluting thing which need to be reduced or lessened, its management is a necessity wherever human beings live. Waste contain a significant energy amount. This issue is felt in a dental surgery too, because it concerns dangerous and infectious-risk waste disposal. The current work focuses on enzymatic biological fuel cells (BFCs), which are designed to convert the chemical energy of the fuel into electricity in a green and biocompatible manner. The aim of our study is to produce enzymatic fuel cells employing the infectious-risk special waste, such as blood and saliva, as fuels. Considering that blood contains glucose, the devices development can be reached through the preparation of a glucose-oxidized (GOx) based bioanode, immobilized on an electrode surface. During our research we will try to complete an Enzimatic Fuel Cell prototype able to get energy from the blood and the saliva inside the risk-infectious medical waste and to employ it in order one day to help the energy requirements of a consulting room.

O autorze

Dr. Fabio Luciani is a dentist and a oral surgery specialist. He has obtained his PhD degree in 2015. He is author of 45 scientific publications, posters and papers. From 2014 he has been entrusted to oral surgery and maxillo-facial surgery teachings for the dentistry degree course at "Nostra Signora del Buonconsiglio" University of Tirana.