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Clean Rooms for Technology and Manufacturing |
| Mack Mar 14th 2009 |
Clean rooms are structures that provide highly controlled environmental conditions for a wide variety of applications. Permanent construction and portable clean rooms provide occupants and equipment with a particulate contaminant free space through the employment of numerous environmental controls that includes High Efficiency Particulate Air (HEPA) filtration systems. All personnel who inhabit clean rooms will typically wear specially designed garb that includes hair and footwear coverings to further restrict the introduction of contaminants into these areas. Portable Clean Rooms Help to Reduce Costs Clean rooms come in a broad spectrum of types, sizes, designs, equipment configurations, etc. And while the cost of many permanent construction clean rooms can be significant, portable clean rooms can be delivered, erected, and made functional for a fraction of the cost of permanent or “hard wall” clean rooms. Portable clean rooms will typically be constructed in “soft wall” configurations that will arrive on site in prefabricated modules that can be assembled in a time and cost-efficient manner. Portable clean rooms will typically have all essential utility systems such as air filtration, heating, lighting, plumbing, etc., already integrated into the prefabricated modules that feature a single point connection to external utility sources. Permanent and portable clean rooms provide contaminant free environments for industries such as those listed below:
Clean Rooms Mean Just That Dust. Particulate matter. It’s everywhere, but one place it cannot be is in the clean rooms that are designed to keep such contaminants out. We’ve all seen how quickly dust can accumulate on our TV or computer screens, on bookshelves, and on every other environmental surface in our home. Most of this particulate matter is sloughed of dead skin cells from our own body, hence the concentration on proper garb for those who enter permanent construction or portable clean rooms. Air filtration is also key to keeping clean rooms ultra-clean, just as are other optional design features such as air showers, gowning antechambers, and specially configured pass thru openings for equipment. Even though portable clean rooms may be of soft wall, temporary construction, they, too, incorporate many of the same, hard wall design features that help to ensure that clean rooms stay very clean, indeed. Environmental surfaces within clean rooms are oftentimes of a specialized nature, and may consist of elements of an antimicrobial or particulate contaminant resistant nature, and in portable clean rooms or their hard wall counterpart, specially sealed door and window openings may also be incorporated into the design. In short, clean rooms are designed, fabricated, and assembled in a manner that ensures the most contaminant free space possible for those manufacturing or research concerns that demand such an environment. www.cleanzones.com |