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Personnel Decontamination from PBSC

09-10-2024

Personnel decontamination from PBSC

A critical process designed to remove or neutralize contaminants from individuals, ensuring a safe and controlled environment. This process is essential in various settings such as cleanrooms, laboratories, and high-containment facilities. It involves using specialised equipment and protocols to effectively cleanse personnel before they enter or exit controlled areas. This minimizes the risk of contamination and helps to maintain the integrity of the workspace.

PBSC has a wide range of custom designs available to meet project requirements.

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PBSC’s Fogging Shower

A fogging shower, also known as a decontamination fogging shower or a mist shower, is a specialised system designed to decontaminate personnel, providing encapsulation or removal of powder from an operative’s suit whilst entering or exiting a specific area. This method is particularly effective in areas where traditional wet decontamination methods might be impractical.

Commonly used in laboratories, hospitals, pharmaceutical manufacturing, and other high-containment facilities where stringent decontamination protocols are required to prevent cross-contamination and ensure a sterile environment.

Fine Mist/Fog Application: The fog shower disperses a fine fog/mist of decontaminant solution that can reach into crevices and hard-to-reach areas, ensuring thorough decontamination.

Effective Decontamination: The fogging process can neutralise a wide range of contaminants, including biological agents, chemical residues, and particulate matter with 5 to 10-micron water droplets to encapsulate API particles with minimal wetting of the operator’s PPE suit.

Automated Operation: Equipped with automated controls to manage the timing and duration of the fogging cycle, ensuring consistent and reliable decontamination. Located above or next to the shower with a prewired cable for easy site electrical installation.

Materials of Construction: Made from either a 304 or 316 stainless steel construction to withstand rigorous use and ensure long-term reliability and the choice of a toughened/tempered 10mm thick glass door or phenolic resin door.

Fogging Shower Type:

Straight-Through – For straight-through transfer of the operative, with the shower mounted between two side walls in a “tunnel” configuration.

Right Angle – For an angled transfer of the operative, with the shower mounted alongside two 90°

3-Door – The shower is fitted with a 3rd door; this can be either a second point of entry or exit.

2-Person – The shower depth is extended to allow use by 2 operatives simultaneously.

Minimal Residue: The fine mist leaves minimal residue, reducing the need for extensive clean-up post-decontamination.

Safety Features: Includes safety interlocks and emergency stop functions to ensure the safety of personnel during the decontamination process.

PBSC uses standard components tailored to your specific requirements and provides all parts on the shower with plugs for easy replacements, minimizing downtime in case of component failure.

PBSC’s Air Shower

An air shower is a specialised enclosure, typically used in cleanrooms and controlled facilities to remove particulate contamination from personnel before they enter or exit the controlled area.

Widely used in pharmaceutical, biotech, semiconductor, and food processing industries to maintain high standards of cleanliness and contamination control.

High-Velocity Air Jets: Powerful air jects blow off dust, lint, and other contaminations from an optative’s clothing or equipment surfaces.

HEPA Filter: Equipped with HEPA (High-Efficiency Particulate Air) filters to ensure that the air used in the shower is free of contaminations.

Automatic Operation: Controls lock and activate the air shower cycle, making the decontamination process efficient and user-friendly.

Interlocking Doors: The interlocked toughened/tempered glass personnel doors prevent cross-contamination by ensuring that only one door can be opened at a time during the air shower cycle.

Durable Construction: Made from either a 304 or 316 stainless steel or powder-coated steel construction to withstand rigorous use and ensure long-term reliability.

Maximum Clear Opening: The door design has been refined to provide a maximum clear entry width with the frame finishing flush with the internal panels. (straight-through design only).

Nozzles: On both sides of the walls and consisting of either:

9 x adjustable stainless steel nozzles – 18 in total, 30-34 m/s velocity, providing 2200 – 2500 m³/hr.

15 x adjustable stainless steel nozzles – 30 in total, 30-32 m/s velocity, providing 3670 – 3900 m³/hr. (high flow version).

Air Shower Type:

2-Door Straight – For straight-through transfer of the operative, with the shower mounted between two side walls in a “tunnel” configuration. Fitted with 2 doors, one common entry, and one exit side.

2-Door Right Angle – For an angled transfer of the operative, with the shower mounted alongside two 90° walls.

3-Door T-Section – For straight-through or angled transfer of the operative, with the shower mounted between three rooms in a “T-Section” configuration. The shower is fitted with 2 doors with one common entry, and one exit side as well as a 3rd door which can be either a second point of entry or exit.

The shower has the final assembly in place and requires no cranes or special access on-site as the largest piece will fit through a single doorway.

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