From pharmaceutical manufacturing to aerospace engineering, cleanrooms are vital to organisations that need to maintain extreme levels of cleanliness with very low levels of pollutants.
Cleanrooms are specially regulated environments that use air-cleaning filter technology to control pollutants and contaminants like dust, microbes, and aerosol particles.
How do cleanrooms work?
To keep a cleanroom safe and free from contaminants, external air is normally passed through a 2 stage AHU and then filtered through high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) or ultra-low particulate air (ULPA) filters that remove harmful particles.Â
The high air volumes dilutes the air within the clean rooms from ceiling level pushing any particulates down to the low level extracts around the room. This also gives the required hourly air change rates required.
Along with recirculation or 100% supply and extract system, most cleanrooms use a ‘positive pressure’ system, where the room pressure to the next adjacent room inside the cleanroom facility. The first is kept to a higher pressure than in the surrounding areas classed as ambient pressure to ensure the positive air pressure cascades from the cleanest room to the dirtier room.Â
This higher pressure stops unfiltered air or contaminants from entering the cleanroom when doors or other openings are used.
Which industries use cleanrooms?
Many different sectors trust clean air solutions to reduce contamination, the risk of product defects or compromise in performance, and meet safety standards. These include:
- Pharmaceuticals
- Laboratories
- Research centres
- Military and aerospace
- I.T and electronics manufacturing
- Education
- The food industry
JLA’s clean air solutions
JLA’s range of sterile equipment and support services offer peace of mind when it come to commissioning, revalidation and maintaining a cleanroom at your site. Our systems include:
• HEPA filters and replacement filters for existing cleanroom facilities
• Laminar flow units designed to deliver and maintain ISO14644 Class 5 and GMP grade-A air quality
• HEPA filter clean air modules for cleanrooms
• Compliance testing and certification to ensure your cleanrooms continue to meet expected standards.
• Supply of Positive and Negative Isolators as well as Portable Compliant Isolators.
• Microbiological Safety cabinets.
Why partner with JLA?
JLA offers specialist expertise in sterile and cleanroom equipment to organisations right across the UK. Our end-to-end solutions cover you from consultation right through to compliance testing. And thanks to a huge team of specialist engineers based all over the country, you can rely on our support – our flexible service plans mean we’ll be on site whenever you need us.
From commissioning to annual validation of cleanrooms to supply, installation of various clean air equipment and safety cabinets we can offer a single partner solution. We can service and repair most manufacturers safety cabinets, fume cupboard and clean air equipment meaning we can offer a more cost-effective service contract.
When it comes to revalidating your cleanroom facilities inline with HTM03-01, ISO14644 and GMP, we can also carry out your AHU service at the same time ensuring your whole system is operating at its peak performance. With a team with over 70 years combined experience we can support our clients when needed.
Contact JLA today for help and advice with sterile equipment.