OTTPL are the trusted manufacturers and suppliers of Indoor & Exhaust Air Treatment Systems using Ozone, for Mortuary and Autopsy Rooms. By Controlled Injection of safe levels of Ozone, using our patented Control Module, and our Plate Type, Duct Mounted Ozone System, we can effectively create an Odour Free, and pleasant environment in Mortuaries and Autopsy Rooms.
Creating an Odor Free, Comfortable and Pleasant Environment in Mortuary.
A Mortuary or Morgue, is the place in hospitals, where human remains are kept for identification, or kept before being taken for autopsies to the postmortem room, or kept waiting for respectful cremation or burial by family members.
Mortuaries can be Positive Temperature (4 deg Celsius to 6 deg Celsius), or Negative Temperature (-10 deg Celsius to -50 deg Celsius). Mortuaries are usually located in an isolated corner of the hospital, away from areas frequented by patients and relatives. Mortuaries are areas that are emotionally and culturally sensitive, for the near and dears of the deceased. A Mortuary plays a very important and sensitive role in the support and utility that a hospital provides to its customers.
Apart from Hospitals, Mortuaries are also an important part of Medical Colleges where bodies are kept for Autopsies required by law for medico-legal cases. Bodies are also kept in medical colleges for teaching under-graduate and post-graduate medical students and medical research. Sometimes bodies are also temporarily kept in mortuaries awaiting organ donation for needy patients.
Importance of an Odour Free Mortuary
Medical experts around the world are of the opinion that hospital mortuaries and postmortem rooms in medical colleges are in need of creating a better environment and a pleasant atmosphere. This is very important, so that even the most reluctant visitor to the mortuary does not have an unpleasant experience.
Cause of Foul Odour in a Mortuary
To preserve the human remains for subsequent burial or cremation, the body is embalmed with Formaldehyde. Formaldehyde has a very pungent and irritating odour, which makes the environment inside the mortuary very unpleasant. Mortuaries are usually refrigerated to preserve the body for a longer duration. Refrigeration helps to slow down the decomposition of the body, but it cannot stop it. Due to slow decomposition of the body, many unpleasant gases such as Hydrogen Sulphide (H2S), Methane (CH4), Thiol, Carbon Dioxide (CO2) and Nitrogen Oxides (NOX), accumulate in the mortuary. These gas molecules permeate each and every area inside the mortuary, and create a very foul odour and unpleasant atmosphere inside the mortuary or autopsy room.
Health Risks for Visitors and Mortuary Staff
According to the EPA, Formaldehyde gas in mortuaries and autopsy rooms can be a carcinogenic agent, and is very unsafe for humans. Therefore, Formaldehyde is a very high risk factor for visitors as well as staff working in mortuaries. At room temperature, formaldehyde used for embalming bodies turns into gas, and can easily be inhaled by humans.
Even low exposure to Formaldehyde gas can cause:
- Eyes, nose and throat irritation
- Difficulty in breathing
- Skin Irritation
- Headaches
Alarmingly, continuous exposure to formaldehyde gas can cause some type of cancers.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), USA, has said that the permissible exposure limit for formaldehyde in the work place is 0.75 parts per million, over an 8-hour work day on an average. The odour threshold for formaldehyde is between 0.1-1.0 ppm. This means that if a human can detect the smell of formaldehyde in the atmosphere, the indoor air quality does not meet the safety standards.
Other decomposition gases like Thiol and Hydrogen Sulphide, can also be detected by the human nose in
concentrations as low as few parts per billion. If a human is exposed to even low levels of these gases, it can cause
irritation of the eyes, sore throat, shortness of breath and even accumulation of fluids in the lungs.
The Best Solution for Odour in Mortuaries and Autopsy Rooms
“OTTPL” a subsidiary of “ORAIPL” has a solution to the problems by generating very low concentration of controlled ozone by its revolutionary plate type duct mounted ozone generator with advance controls which not only generates ozone with the feedback to control panel in liner fashion based on the VOC (volatile organic compounds) present in the indoor air& never crosses the ozone threshold limits to more than 50 ppb. If has a ozone cut off switch. The systems can be hooked with the indoor AHU or the exhaust fans with on/off relay.
In air treatment indoor applications the conventional tube type ozone generators which are generally
used for generating high concentrations of ozone are not to be used owing to the safety issues with
high concentration ozone generating into the indoor environment.
