Technology for Sterile Water Generator

Currently, deployed medics are required to transport, maintain and be resupplied with liquid-based medications and materials that are heavy, expensive to transport, perishable and may require refrigeration.Many medications and materials are or will be available in dehydrated formularies that require sterile water for injection (SWFI) to rehydrate for immediate use, such as freeze-dried platelets.It would be far better to be able to sterilize locally available potable water, but no hand-held, portable technology exists that will allow medics on the battlefield to generate SWFI.In this proposal we propose to build a lightweight, sterile water generator requiring no external power.The overall Phase I work plan is to identify the necessary components and test them for their capacity, flow rate and pressure drop, and show that they can be combined to build a rugged light-weight system that can supply SWFI. By testing the system we will be able to identify its advantages and address any problems. We will carry out an engineering analysis to design and test a bench scale unit that will be able to meet all the requirements of the DHP solicitation and design a prototype that we will build in Phase II.