The Clarus™ Port Sterile Transfer Chamber

The Clarus™ PORT is the most advanced rapid
bio-decontamination chamber using low temperature, residue-free hydrogen peroxide vapour.

Hydrogen peroxide vapour is the safest and fastest sporicidal agent recommended for aseptic processing, biotechnology and lifescience applications. Because of the very rapid bio-decontamination cycle it is possible to utilise the very latest sporicidal gassing techniques recommended in EC GMPs for "just-in-time" transfer of materials, equipment and components. This eliminates the labour-intensive, hazardous, difficult to control and non-validatable process of manual alcohol spray and wipe disinfection.

Product, components or equipment are loaded into the PORT chamber. The chamber is automatically sealed and using the Clarus L hydrogen peroxide gas generator a high concentration of vapour is produced and distributed evenly throughout the load. Contact time for biological inactivation is very short. Hydrogen peroxide vapour is decomposed to oxygen and water vapour at the end of the cycle leaving no residues. On completion the load can be withdrawn on a sliding trolley into an aseptic processing workstation or processing area. The entire process takes as little as 15 minutes.

Operation of the PORT is simple and automatic. The PORT uses the industry standard Siemens PLC control system to communicate directly with the Clarus™ L hydrogen peroxide vapour generator. Additional modes of operation are available to decontaminate the connected workstation isolators and for cleaning and maintenance. The PORT can also be used as a traditional pass-through using manual disinfection techniques.

Other key benefits include:

• 6-log sporicidal reduction of bio-burden

• Completely self contained with no discharges

• No plant room installation required

• Safe, secure, fully validatable process

• Ergonomic design allows ease of loading / unloading

• Easy to retrofit, no facility disruption

• Simple interfaces

• Only single phase electrical power required

Applications

The main applications of the PORT are when used as a bio-decontamination chamber between two aseptic processing workstations, such as isolators or laminar flow units, or as a pass through chamber into a cleanroom for:

• Pharmacy compounding of sterile products

• Small scale aseptic processing

• Sterility testing

• Material fumigation chamber

• "Stand-alone" surface decontamination of materials,
  equipment, instruments and containers

For more information please contact us at  info@biodecon.co.nz