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Mportant Design Considerations For HVAC Systems: The Primary Design Goal of Clean Room Is The Particulate Control
Mportant Design Considerations For HVAC Systems: The Primary Design Goal of Clean Room Is The Particulate Control
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The 4 important air-conditioning design considerations for clean room system design are:
1. Supplying airflow in sufficient volume and cleanliness to support the cleanliness rating of
the room.
2. Introducing air in a manner to prevent stagnant areas where particles could accumulate.
pressurization.
Besides the room preparation in terms of materials and finishes play an equally important role in
meeting these requirements. The idea is to minimize the internal generation of contaminants from
the surfaces.
Design must consider aspects such as control of particulate, microbial, electrostatic discharge,
gaseous contaminants, airflow pattern control, and pressurization and industrial engineering
aspects.
The size of these particles ranges from 0.001 to several hundred microns.
Particles of different sizes behave differently as air moves through a room. For example, in an
eight-foot high room, a particle in the 50-micron range might take 60 seconds to settle, while a 1-
micron particle might take 15 hours to settle. Particles larger than 5 microns tend to settle quickly
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