End Housing Cleaning

With over three years invested in the development and qualification of the supercritical cleaning process, the next phase of the implementation plan was cleaning of production hardware. The two key operations which had been identified early on as potential applications were the cleaning of end housings and the removal of bulk amounts of damping fluids from fill system fixturing. 

Based on these evaluations, a number of production end housings were cleaned using the SCF process which had been developed. The end housings passed all dimensional and performance tests prior to and after SCF cleaning and were assembled into instruments earmarked for further evaluations to determine if instrument performance met all requirements. 

Remove end shield, clean bearing housing, and oil grooves renew oil. 

Biopharmaceutical clean-rooms typically house process equipment requiring utilities such as pure water, electricity, vacuum, and clean compressed air. The source of these utilities is usually outside the clean room. During the design phase a utility matrix is developed, in conjunction with end users and equipment manufacturers, identifying all equipment and the utilities required. This is the basis for determining the capacity of the utility systems as well as the point-of-use location of specific utilities. 

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