Sterilizers

Overview

Since 1957, Vacudyne has been the leader in design and manufacturing of Industrial Gas Sterilizers. With hundreds of installations throughout the world, Vaudyne's full line of standard and custom sterilizers are recognized as the standard of excellence for the medical device industry.

The use of ethylene oxide as a sterilant in the reduction or elimination of bacteria, mold spores, and fungus is widely known. Ethylene oxide is highly diffusive and can permeate many materials. It is possible to sterilize heat and moisture sensitive products sealed in packaging and even in shipping cartons.

Vacudyne sterilizers are the finest technology can produce. Utilizing decades of experience, Vacudyne engineers will design a system to your special requirements. A Vacudyne sterilization system gives you the flexibility to tailor the cycle parameters to your particular needs.

Features

• Complete system that includes chamber, evacuation system, gas dispensing and circulation systems, humidification systems, piping, controls, and instrumentation
• Designed for use with 100% ethylene oxide and nitrogen, Oxyfume®, Oxyfume® 2002, Carboxide blends
• 304 stainless steel heated chamber and door
• Side hinged manual door
• Computer controlled
• Standard design for full vacuum to 15 PSIG operating range
• Electric hot water heating package, with heating channels in every bay
• Fully insulated with rigid outer surface finish
• Water sealed liquid ring evacuation system, sized to evacuate a dry empty chamber to 28" HgV in approximately 30 minutes
• Particulate air inbleed filter
• Rupture disk and safety relief valve
• Electrically heated vaporizer system
• Validation documentation
• 460V, 3 phase, 60Hz sterilizer and 120V, 1 phase, 60Hz controls

Specifications

The following are a representation of standard sterilizers. Custom sizes can be engineered to meet a customer's specific requirement. See "Quote/Information" section.

Options

• Chamber
  • 316 L stainless steel chamber and door
  • Carbon steel chamber and door
  • Various sandblasted interior surface finishes
  • ASME coded chamber
  • Product temperature monitoring and recording system
  • Gravity rollers to fully automated material handling systems
  • View port
  • Dynamic conditioning
  • Steam heat exchanger for heating chamber
  • Flange for clean room
  • End of cycle chamber ventilation with back vent and blower
  • Loading and unloading ramps
  • Pit mounted
  • Additional penetrations
• Door
  • Manual side-slide door(s)
  • Manual swing hinged power seal door(s)
  • Power swing hinged power seal door(s)
  • Manual side-slide power seal door(s)
  • Power side-slide power seal door(s)
  • Power vertical power seal door(s)
  • Hydraulic lift
  • Second Door
  • Two door interlocked safety clamp
  • Door safety clamp
  • View port
  • Clean room door
• Evacuation
  • Oil sealed vacuum pump
  • Dry vacuum pump
  • Automatic separator drain pump
  • Chiller
  • Bacteria retentive filter
• Humidification
  • Steam generator
• Gassing
  • Alternate sterilant gas
  • Automatic sterilant supply selector system for one or two scales
  • Electronic scale
  • Manual scale
• Utility monitoring package
• Closed loop cooling package
• Parametric release with ethylene oxide sensor
• Alternate power configuration
• Seismic requirements
• On-site installation supervision
• Start-up and training

BIER and Research Vessels

Vacudyne® BIER vessels (Biological Indicator Evaluation Resistometer) and researach vessels are designed to evaluate the resistance of microbial populations to sterilization by precisely controlling the critical parameters, pressure, temperature, humidity, and sterilant in a computer controlled chamber. These vessels are also used for testing packaging integrity and sterilant cycle development.

Applications

• Medical devices
• Package testing integrity
• Sterilant cycle development