Safety, Hazard Containment & Sterilising Equipment
Ultrasonic cleaning solutions for laboratory applications
The cavitation phenomenon consists of the formation and growth of millions of microscopic bubbles under a low-pressure stage, produced into the ultrasonic bath due to a high power transducer 40kHz. These bubbles break in all directions and attack every surface in contact with water, erasing dirt, impurities and pollutants when contacting with the materials or pieces into the bath. This phenomenon allows cleaning all kind of items without the need of disassembling, due to all the surfaces being in contact with the liquid. The heating function of the unit allows the acceleration of this cleaning process.
Wiggens presents two series of standard ultrasonic cleaners with reliable quality and useful features, which allows the users a wide range of cleaning applications such as lab materials, medical instruments, dental prosthesis, optics, industrial items, jewelleries, also the degasification or liquid dissolution and compact substances disaggregation.
The following are the standard working volumes supplied: 3, 6, 10 and 22 litres, and bespoke volumes can be ordered for different applications. All functions can be viewed and monitored on a large and clear touch screen display. The parameters can be set by screen touching, including the ultrasonic working power (40% to 100%), bath temperature (20°C to 80°C), timer and warning function for safety.
All models are equipped with lids and trays that allow the parts they introduce to be directly cleaned without damaging the transducers and for easy handling.
In addition to the standard ultrasonic cleaners, Wiggens also offers the ultrasonic cleaners with special added functions. The Shaking Ultrasonic Cleaner is a good example, which means that the sample can be pre-homogenised at a specific shaking speed, and then final homogenisation can be achieved in a very short time, using ultrasonic power These two procedures can be carried out simultaneously or separately. Another added function is an ultrasonic cleaner with cooling for use in pathology and analysis labs, where the temperature of bath can be maintained at 10°C to 40°C even with the ultrasonic power generating heat continuously.
Contact Wiggens to accelerate your cleaning process. More information online:
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Tailored mini environments for particle-free production
No matter whether it be the medical or pharmaceuticals industries or semiconductor fabrication, many sectors are attaching increasing importance to producing and manufacturing components in a clean, particle-free environment. The primary fields of application for the Spetec clean-room workbench or mini environment are in the optical, electronic and mechanical industries. The clean-room workbench can be tailored to meet customer needs and the required clean room class. In other words, the size, features and design of the workbench are adapted as required.
As a rule, the unit is made from special aluminum profiles suitable for use in clean rooms. The side walls can be made from glass or acrylic glass, or the box can be surrounded by a strip curtain. A laminar flow module is then fitted at the top, which delivers class 5 clean room conditions inside the box. This corresponds to a mere 100 0.5 µm particles. Compared with an approximate particle count of 1 million per cubic foot in a typical office or laboratory, this represents a 10 000-fold increase in air quality.
The key difference compared with a Spetec Laminar Flow Box (FBS Series, table unit) lies in the fact that the size and features of the clean-room workbench can be fully tailored to the needs of the customer, for instance in respect of the choice of work surface, which is available as perforated steel, stainless steel or hard laminate. The result is a self-contained, tailored clean-room workbench.
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Complex effl uent treatment plant installed at Pirbright Institute’s ISO11 building
Suncombe, a leading global supplier of hygienic process equipment and systems, played a leading role in the initial design, construction, implementation and commissioning of a new Effluent Treatment Plant (ETP) for the ISO11 building at The Pirbright Institute in Surrey, UK. Pirbright is a world leading centre of excellence in research and surveillance of virus diseases of farm animals and viruses that spread from animals to humans.
The ISO11 building is used to conduct research into areas such as vaccine development, efficacy testing and viral transmission biology. The project was initiated to replace the existing ETP, which was very old and with outdated controls. Due to the lack of available space, it was decided to design an externally-sited structure, made of specially manufactured shipping containers. The client needed to keep the building running with the old ETP, and then programme a much shorter change over.
A benefit of building a containerised ETP was it allowed the equipment to be designed, manufactured, connected, installed and tested off-site and inclusion of all of the utilities and control systems in this single module. The Suncombe BioSuite Control Systems used have been specifically developed for ultimate control of these highly critical decontamination systems.
As a lot of the pipework was coming from inside the building, and controls cabling and interfaces were going back into the building coordination between the ETP construction and M&E contractors needed to be carefully managed.
Simulations of the various treatment cycles and stress testing of the complete system was undertaken. The plant was then installed on-site, and all the testing was then repeated in situ before handover.
Steve Overton, Suncombe Operations Director commented: “I am grateful to the Pirbright and 3PM personnel, as well as the Suncombe team, for delivering this complex and challenging project successfully.”
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