Rectangular Chamber Autoclaves offering Faster Sterilisation

Steam and water jacketed, rectangular chamber autoclaves can deliver both faster sterilising processes and drier loads more quickly and reliably. And they are now available within the new PERFORMANCE category of laboratory and research grade autoclaves design and built by Priorclave in its London based manufacturing centre.

Popularity of this style of autoclave is due its exceptional large, rectangular sterilising chamber. This makes them eminently suited for laboratories undertaking high-volume throughputs or frequently tasked with handling taller and bulkier items.

Current models available from Priorclave offer a choice of six chambers capacities from 230 to 850 litres. All models are fitted with a large hand-wheel closure system for easy safe opening/closing of the rigid robust hinged door. An inherent feature is the fitting of thermal and pressure locks to the lower hand-wheel. This prevents door opening at load temperature above 80°C and pressures above 0.2 bar, this averting potential accidents through discharge of hot pressurised steam.

Every autoclave in the Performance range is supplied with vacuum-equipped and steam/water jackets as standard. They also feature Tactrol®3, the very latest sterilising process controller. It caters for set up of simple cycles to fully features multi-program sterilising operations with printed records. It has an expanded memory, allowing labs to program twice as many custom cycles each with their own start delays, temperature and pressure ramps, repeats, dwell times, vacuum stages and set points, media warming/ hold temperatures, etc.

The purpose of the new Performance range of large chamber autoclaves is to incorporate most of the popular features requested over many years, but now included as standard, such as built-in cooling, freesteaming, drain protection, air-intake filtration and USB connector as standard.

Priorclave Performance autoclaves will satisfy the many demanding sterilising applications within food and drink, dairy, pharmaceutical, agriculture, education, heathcare and research laboratories. Faster to heat up and faster to cool, and a relatively small footprint allows some of the smaller labs to have the highest capacity and performance steam autoclaves available.