Click here to purchase This Recommended Practice (RP) makes recommendations regarding factors to consider in the design of cleanroom facilities. This discussion is limited to those environmental conditions that typically confront cleanroom designers and users. It is intended to provide users with factors to consider for cleanroom design, but discussion of these factors is not intended to be...
Click here to purchase This Recommended Practice (RP) describes the equipment, aerosol properties, processes, and calculations for determining the efficiency of HEPA, ULPA, and super ULPA filters in the factory, using particle counters. The procedure may be applied to production applications. This RP provides guidelines for constructing a suitable test duct and sampling system. Also provided are...
Click here to purchase This Recommended Practice (RP) addresses the gowning of personnel as an important aspect of cleanroom contamination control. It provides non-mandatory guidance for the selection, specification, maintenance, and testing of apparel and accessories appropriate for use in non aseptic and aseptic cleanrooms and other controlled environments.Included with this RP are the...
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Click here to purchase This Recommended Practice (RP) covers basic provisions for HEPA (high-efficiency particulate air) and ULPA (ultra-low penetration air) filter units as a basis for agreement between customers and suppliers. This RP describes 11 levels of filter performance, or types, and six grades of filter construction. For the types and grades that require scanning, these filter types...
Click here to purchase This Recommended Practice (RP) covers definitions, equipment, and procedures for leak testing high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filters and ultralow-penetration air (ULPA) filters in the factory they are produced, at the job site before they are installed, and after they are installed in cleanrooms and in unidirectional-flow, clean-air devices. When used in...
Click here to purchase This Recommended Practice (RP) provides guidance for identifying possible events and conditions that can cause abrupt environmental disruption to cleanroom operations. The contents of this RP can be used to guide and assist cleanroom management to proactively identify such disruptive events specific to the cleanroom. Detailed planning should lead to documented standard...
Click here to purchase This Recommended Practice (RP) provides a basis for understanding how electrostatic charge occurs. This RP discusses problems caused by electrostatic charge in cleanrooms, as related to particle management, physical damage from discharge and process interruptions from transient electromagnetic interference (EMI). This RP also provides suggestions for identifying and...
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Click here to purchase 2020 ESTECH PresentationsVirtual ConferencePresentations of the Annual Technical Meeting of the IESTContamination Control/Nano Compounding Pharmacies and Aseptic Isolators; Contamination Control in Cannibas Market; Particle Measuring; Surface Cleaning and Cleanliness Measurement; and more. Environmental Testing and Product ReliabilityEnvironmental Testing; Climatics...