Touchclave Ecotech
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Section 2- Main Features
2.1 Autoclave features
Embedded Touchscreen Control System
The Ecotech has an embedded control system with a 3.5” resistive touchscreen user interface. The
embedded hardware uses two microprocessors with USB type A connection through the front control
panel (for archiving data to memory stick), easy to use icon based colour display, intelligent firmware
and built in safety features.
Condensate Unit
This air-cooled unit ensures that water from the Condensate Discharge or the Chamber Water Discharge
is below 80
o
C. This is important if plastic drains are used to receive discharges. The Condensate Unit
used is a fan-cooled heat exchanger. Cold air is blown over a heat exchanger, reducing the heat from
the air/steam/water running through the coils. The resulting warm air is blown out from the side panel
of the autoclave.
Automatic Water Fill
This feature uses a direct connection to mains supply water in order to fill the system at the beginning
of the cycle. Once a volume of water has been pumped into the system, the autoclave will not require
any further water fills until the next cycle and so has minimal water consumption for an autoclave with
an integral steam generator.
High Pressure Steam Generator
The Touchclave Ecotech has an integral steam generator that operates at a higher pressure than the
autoclave chamber. This ensures that there is optimised space inside the autoclave chamber and
provides a cleaner environment (as there are no heating elements inside the chamber).This also
makes the vacuum pump (optional) more effective as the load will by significantly drier at the end of
a cycle (on drying cycles).
Vacuum System (optional)
This option adds functionality to the start and end of the cycle. It also increases the range of loads that
the machine can deal with. The vacuum system is used to ensure efficient air removal at the start of
the cycle (known as the “pre-vacuum” stage), when a vacuum is drawn in the chamber to a set
pressure.
At the end of a cycle, the vacuum pump is used create a negative pressure in the autoclave chamber
while the load is at a high temperature. The negative pressure reduces the boiling point of water and
the residual heat in the load causes moisture to evaporate from the load and therefore dries the load.
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