Laboratory Laminar Flow Boxes, PCR Workstations, Biological Safety Cabinets

Laminar Flow Boxes / Cabinets - uses

A laminar box-also known as a laboratory laminar flow box-is a clean work station for working under dust-free, sterile conditions or a clean room bench. Laminar boxes and cabinets are used in a variety of fields, such as laboratories in the fields of biology, microbiology, chemistry, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, medical technology, hospitals, pharmacies or the food industry. Laminar flow boxes are also used in optical, laser, semiconductor and electronics applications.

A clean, particle-free and germ-free environment for the protection of products, as well as the user, plays an important role in all these areas. Often complete, technically sophisticated clean rooms are set up at an enormous cost. A laminar box with extraction devices and high-performance filters offers a more cost-effective alternative to this, as clean room conditions are precisely where they are needed.

Laminar Flow Box / Cabinet - principle functions

In the laboratory and industry sector the laminar flow box executes various tasks and functions depending on the area of operation, facilities, specific specifications and instruments. Simple product protection as well as personal protection by maintaining a safe, sterile environment at the workplace is the basic function of a laminar flow cabinet. The user enters the clean working area through a special opening in the laminar box and processes the products. The lab laminar flow box consists mainly of a frame, a work surface as well as extraction and filtering systems. The primary operating concept of a laboratory laminar flow box / biological safety cabinet is to pull air into the space and transfer it through a special filter system.

The air drawn into the room by the fan is first freed from the larger dust particles via the pre-filter and then passes through the suspended filter. By means of an integrated outgoing air system, the air is removed from the laminar flow box back into the atmosphere or returned to the filter via a separate channel, cleaned again and reintroduced into the working area. The germ and dust-free air that emerges from the filter box in the form of a laminar flow fills the working space defined by the frame. In this way, the penetration of dust particles and microorganisms into the working area of the laminar flow chamber is prevented.

Laminar Flow Cabinet / Box - types

Laboratory laminar flow boxes are available in a broad variety of designs, sizes, models and with many different options that allow optimal adaptation to the specific requirements of laboratories and industry. In addition to shielding the product from contamination, a laminar flow blow often also protects the user. Laminar flow boxes are classified according to clean room classes and into laminar flow boxes with horizontal air flow and laminar flow boxes with a vertical air flow.

In the case of laboratory laminar flow boxes for horizontal air flow, the laminar flow travels from the rear wall to the operator and in the case of vertical air flow from the top to the bottom. For activities in which toxic gases, dusts or infectious aerosols are produced, only laminar flow boxes with vertical air flow and special perforated plate benches are permitted for the extraction of air from the working area.

Laminar Flow Boxes / BioSafety Cabinets - accessories

Our low-noise laboratory laminar flow boxes are distinguished by their excellent ergonomic characteristics and healthy use-as well as the ability to change or replace individual components. Depending on the model and vendor, you can order various components and laminar flow box accessories such as frames benches filters atomisers, valves connectors, UV lamps, electronic Bunsen burners, sockets and other lab laminar flow cabinet accessories on sale.