The quality of cleaning and decontamination of medical devices using supercritical CO2 outstrips that of detergent cleaning currently used in cleanrooms.
Supercritical CO2 is chemically neutral. It is therefore unlikely to oxidise or react chemically with metals and most polymers.
In its supercritical phase, CO2 combines the characteristics of a gas and a liquid: it has the diffusion power of a gas and the viscosity of a liquid. As a result, it can come into contact with all the surfaces of a metal part and diffuse deep into polymers without affecting their mechanical or chemical properties.
This supercritical CO2 is ideal for degreasing and decontaminating a variety of parts, whether they have been machined, drawn, deburred, injected or turned.
It can also be used to clean and decontaminate heat-sensitive polymers, as well as animal and human tissues, whether in powder, bone, fragment or other form.
Finally, supercritical CO2 is perfectly suited to the treatment of medical devices, whether textiles, silicone, plastics, bi-materials or intelligent medical devices.
To reach and exceed the critical point of supercritical CO2, two parameters are important: pressure and temperature. These two parameters are defined before a cycle is launched and managed automatically by the machine.
The process is ultra-stable and ultra-repeatable, ensuring impeccable cleaning quality that lasts over time.
Supercritical CO2 is also known to have a strong effect on the biological load present on parts. It can be used to pre-sterilise implantable or non-implantable, single-use or reusable medical devices.
Supercritical CO2 causes a series of changes that are lethal to living organisms: acidification of the extra- and intracellular pH, changes to the cell membrane, disruption of enzyme activity and electrolyte balance, etc.
The treatment both cleans and decontaminates medical devices. This pre-sterilisation action will enable you to reduce exposure time during the final sterilisation operation using processes currently approved by the health authorities.
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- Machine body can be moved to a neighbouring workshop up to 50 m away.
- Cleanable, oxidation-resistant materials (316L stainless steel) for the cleanroom/grey area.
- Grease-free door seal.
- Contaminants are collected in the machine body in the technical room to prevent contamination of the cleanroom.
- Possibility of double-door autoclave through the wall for one-way production flow from the grey room to the clean room.
- CFR part 11 compliance for command control. Includes access history and cycle traceability.
Supercritical CO2, the only non-toxic large-scale sterilisation process.
A sterilisation process whose objective is to reduce to 0.000001 (1 in 1 million) the probability of finding pathogenic micro-organisms on a medical device. Although a biocide, supercritical CO2 poses no danger to the environment or to the health of operators or patients.
Dense Fluid Degreasing offers healthcare manufacturers, hospitals, clinics and care centres a safe, stable sterilisation technology that can be industrialised.
The alternative to traditional sterilisation processes: supercritical CO2 sterilisation can replace traditional sterilisation processes
- Ethylene oxide (explosive, irritant, carcinogenic and mutagenic, with processing times of several days)
- Ionising radiation (requires nuclear facilities)
- Dry steam (danger of explosion and burns, incompatible with heat-sensitive materials)
- Cold plasma (explosive, unsuitable for most polymers, requires special packaging)
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