EcoRenal — India's First Dialysis Carbon Footprint Calculator

Academic tool

Calculate your dialysis centre's carbon footprint

Enter your facility's consumables, water, electricity and travel data below. EcoRenal converts this activity data into carbon dioxide equivalent (kg CO₂e) emissions using India-specific conversion factors published in the study "Carbon Footprint Assessment of Hemodialysis Services: A cross-sectional study from an Indian Dialysis Center" (Turkish Journal of Nephrology). See the About page for full methodology and references.

1 Facility details

Used to label your report. Not used in any calculation.

Hospital name

Dialysis centre name

Date

2 Patients & treatment schedule

Used to compute footprint per session and per patient per year (156 sessions/year for thrice-weekly, 104 sessions/year for twice-weekly).

Patients on thrice-weekly dialysis

Patients on twice-weekly dialysis

3 Consumables (monthly quantity)

Enter the quantity of each consumable used by your centre in a typical month. Leave blank / 0 for items you don't use. Heparin is highlighted as it is typically the dominant emission source.

4 Water use

RO / total water output (litres per month) Emission factor: 0.344 kg CO₂e / m³

5 Electricity use

Electricity consumption (kWh per month) Emission factor: 0.82 kg CO₂e / kWh (India grid)

6 Biomedical waste

Incinerated waste (kg per month) Emission factor: 2.85 kg CO₂e / kg

Recycled waste (kg per month) Emission factor: 0 kg CO₂e / kg

7 Distance travelled & vehicle used

Total one-way patient/staff travel distance per week, by mode of transport.

Bus (km per week) 0.04 kg CO₂e / km

Car (km per week) 0.17 kg CO₂e / km

Two-wheeler (km per week) 0.06 kg CO₂e / km

Auto-rickshaw (km per week) 0.08 kg CO₂e / km