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MICROTROL BATCH IRRADIATION FACILITY
MICROTROL has been providing sterilisation
services for the last more than 25 years.
Headquartered in Mumbai, MICROTROL presently has 9
EtO facilities across the Country and therefore is
aware of the sterilisation market and clients.
With the objective of providing complete
sterilisation solutions, MICROTROL now offers, in
addition to the network of EtO sterilisation
facilities across India, Gamma Radiation
Processing services from their state-of-the-art
facility at Bangalore.
Almost all the companies are following the design
of the Plant which is based on the first ISOMED
design of continuous process with overhead
conveyor system. Therefore if the product line has
to be changed, there would be a change over time
of about 6 to 12 hours. This changes-over time
could make the continuous process plant un-viable,
if products of same density are not available.
MICROTROL caters to the Medical, Pharma, Packaging
and Food product markets. It is with the objective
of achieving quick turn-around and flexibility,
the MICROTROL design team was requested to design
an innovative batch irradiation system without the
use of conveyors. This quest has resulted in a
batch irradiator which would allow the product to
be changed quickly, on a day-to-day basis which is
the demand of the industry. This multi-purpose
gamma sterilisation facility is completely
indigenous in design and fabrication.
The Batch irradiator commissioned in recently by
MICROTROL bears special focus on customer needs
and convenience, and is radically different from
the existing, conventional continuous process
plants, currently in operation, elsewhere in the
country.
The irradiator offers flexibility and is primarily
aimed to process healthcare, neutraceuticals,
ayurvedic & herbal products, pharma raw materials
and ago produce for which, the stipulated
radiation dose is in the wide range of 2 to 35 kGy.
25 pairs of Aluminium tote-boxes, one stacked over
the other, constitute a process batch and each
tote has internal dimensions of 600 mm (L) x 450
mm (W) x 1100 mm (H) with no weight restriction.
Each tote can accommodate 3 CFB cartons sized: 590
mm(L) x 430 mm(W) x 340 mm(H) or, appropriate
custom-packages, drums etc., as indicated
hereunder.
Gamma radiation is preferred over sterilisation by
chemical means because of its suitability for heat
labile materials, absence of any harmful residues
and its adaptability for pre-packaged materials.
For food products, Gamma Radiation is the
automatic choice the world over. Cobalt 60 sealed
sources are indigenously produced in the Country
by the Department of Atomic energy and are
available at competitive price.
The current installed capacity of Gamma Radiation
Sterilisation plants which are up & running at
various centres of the Country is almost 150
cartons (90 ltrs, ISOMED size) per hour, i.e.,
1,200,000 cartons per annum. This capacity is far
in excess of the present requirements. Medical
Device industry can therefore take advantage of
this excess Gamma Radiation Serilisation capacity
to produce quality products on larger scale and
capture the competitive global market. |
