A lighthearted look at the things that can go wrong with a clean room design, right in time for the holiday season. A Christmas gift Yah! Joe had finally gotten approval to build a new clean room as part of the building project he was responsible for. They desperately needed it to make the new…
What are they and where did they come from? Air detectors were first developed in the textiles industry where autoclaves are used in a process called ‘heat setting’ for yarns and synthetic fibres such as nylon. In the textiles industry, autoclaves are used to improve and/or add certain properties to fibres, such as dimensional stability,…
To answer the question, we looked at the fact, on average, as much as 80% of the total energy used by a cleanroom is consumed by the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system. Up to 50% of this energy is consumed by the fans that provide the high air change rates needed to keep…
An Environmental Monitoring System (EMS) is very different from a Building Management System (BMS) – an EMS monitors the environment of a facility, whereas a BMS controls the environment. What are the options? There are many types and manufacturers of both BMS and EMS solutions, each with varying options. For example: Are there different levels…
Filter Specifications and Standards Following a review by the CEN (European Committee for Standardisation), there have been changes to the following European Standards providing changes to the classifications of filters, allowing clear definition and clarity to the specification and efficiency calculations for filter classes; EN779: 2012 ‘Particulate Air Filters For General Ventilation – Determination of…
Pharmaceutical Cleanrooms | Cleanroom Design Flaws: 12 things that should no longer be seen in cleanrooms | Over the past few years, I have walked through many different clean rooms, both old and new, designed and built by the small operators and the blue-chip multinationals. Regretfully, a common thread I observed with a lot of…
What makes a cleanroom a clean room? Like anything technical, how a cleanroom works is essentially basic, but wrapped up in a whole lot of jargon, standards, rules and regulations. The basic principles are actually perfectly understandable, but you have to claw your way through a lot of irrelevance, myths and misinformation to find something…
I have always said that Cleanroom Technology is not rocket science. Although it seems the modern cleanroom was developed to assist with the progression of rocket technology. Working out of Sandia National Laboratories, Willis Whitfield, who died last month aged 92, put together the prototype of the modern cleanroom. Responding to a request by his…
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