Portable Cleanroom Equipment and its Significance in Cleanrooms

Posted by Airtech Equipment Pte Ltd on April 18th, 2024

The term portable means items or properties that are movable from one place to another. Certain clean room equipment although not conspicuous is quite significant. In clean room environment, these equipment are not attached anywhere to clean room walls, floors, ceilings, but can be moved from one place to another within the clean room, conveniently according to the requirement. Designed fabricated and installed according to the regulations, set by the standards, these properties play a significant role in a clean room. These properties or equipment are categorised according to their location, usage and their role they play within the clean room environment. These small inconspicuous equipment include footwear cleaners, disinfectant sprayers or spray guns, containment hoods, particle counters, control systems, pass throughs, UV (ultraviolet) disinfection units and so on, being the most common ones.

Although the name shoe cleaner may seem quite funny, the role it plays in clean room environment is really quite surprising. These shoe cleaners, basically are equipped with built-in internal vacuum suction systems, which sucks in all the dust particles on the footwear, hence it is named as automatic shoe cleaner. Nevertheless these automatic shoe cleaners are quite a convenient aid because one need not worry about any manual cleaning of the shoes while entering into the clean room. The function of the pass through system is to monitor and control the entry of humans basically, which means the entry of scientists, scholars, assistants and so on. Other items such as dispensers, sheets, gloves, and tapes also constitute a cleanroom aid because they are used in a clean room for various purposes. Likewise, a pass through controls or limits the volume of traffic entering a clean room thereby, reducing the volume of potential contaminants that may enter the room. The next device in a cleanroom is a containment hood which provides a safe and hygienic area for technical and bio chemical works.

Certain clean rooms require an extra level of fortification under such cases the use of containment hoods serve the purpose to a great extent. Laminar flow hoods, vertical flow hoods and horizontal flow hoods are the commonest ones that are used. In a way, containment hoods are an ideal set of equipment that offer a higher level of personnel protection.

Since certification of a cleanroom requires that the particle volume has to be within the acceptable limit, particle counters have to be installed in clean rooms, to evaluate the size and number of particles. All these equipment along with the mandatory and non-movable devices that constitute a cleanroom are efficiently provided by Airtech, one of the leading cleanroom equipment manufacturer and Biosafety Level services, Disinfection Sterilization Services, Laboratory Equipment Suppliers in Singapore. Being a known name Airtech has been a pioneer in the mentioned sector.