Priorclave rectangular chambered front-loading autoclave is the best option available for high-throughput research, education, industrial, and quality assurance facilities. Each of our front-loading autoclaves is entirely custom built to your specifications in our London factory. If you don't need a steam jacket or powered door, then your autoclave won't have one. If you do need enhanced cooling, filtration, monitoring, or another feature, it will be fitted. An application-specific build doesn't just reduce the purchase price by eliminating features of no use to you. It also results in a more reliable autoclave that costs much less to own, operate, and maintain.
Benefits
- 230L, 285L, 350L, 450L and 700L capacities in base, smart and performance ranges
- Programmable TACTROL® 3 Control System with simple "one-touch" start
- Customisable Freesteaming, Load Cooling, Media Warming, and Delayed Start
- PED-certified 316L Stainless Steel Chamber and Door
- Two full width stainless steel anti-tip Loading Shelves
- Biomaster™ Antimicrobial Surfaces
Priorclave rectangular autoclaves couple the superior engineering and craftsmanship found in our standard cylindrical chambered research autoclaves with larger chambers optimised for high-throughput applications. The standard rectangular models rely on in-chamber on-demand heating and are fitted with safety-interlock manual doors with thick-profile silicone seals. The result is a rectangular autoclave that you can own, operate, and maintain at significant savings, when compared to same-size, same-function units. That said, if your application or situation demands 24/7 steam generation, a steam jacket, a power door, or other advanced option, we can always build to suit.
Ranges
Priorclave Rectangular Chamber Front Loading Autoclaves are available in two ranges:
Base Range
The Base range covers “the basics” standard lab work (including media preparation), waste loads, and the like. These are available in both cylindrical and rectangular models.
- Media, liquids, and waste fluid
- Unwrapped instruments
- Sealed containers, including cans and pouches (requires air ballast and compressor)
- Fermenters, bioreactors
Priorclave's Base range of autoclaves is intended for research, quality assurance, and teaching labs that regularly need to handle “the basics”: media preparation, waste loads, and sterilizing loose instruments, open containers, and labware. Base units efficiently handle a wide variety of loads. Base models are especially useful for labs that need to run just a few cycles each day, do not need to have a dry load quickly, and largely focus on research tasks.
Easy maintenance and light resource consumption help ensure a low lifetime cost of ownership. Even the smallest benchtop Base Priorclave autoclave enjoys the same robust design, custom build, and quality components as their larger models. All Base models are piped and fitted to accommodate an optional air intake filtration system (if your application calls for this).
All Base models include fully featured programmable controls: create cycles that meet your specific needs, with custom cycle and dwell times, delays, temperature and pressure ramps, repeats, “media warming” periods, and so on. Base models come with 5 Program Memory, built-in cooling and free steaming systems, USB, drain protection (required by many building codes and not necessarily standard on all cost-conscious autoclaves on the market).
Smart Range
The Smart range of sterilisers is vacuum-equipped for greater flexibility. They can handle a wider range of loads (including mixed loads), produce drier loads, and offer expanded programming functions. These are available in both cylindrical and rectangular models.
- Media, liquids, and waste fluid
- Unwrapped instruments
- Sealed containers, including cans and pouches (requires air ballast and compressor)
- Fermenters, bioreactors
- Soil, substrate, plant tissue culture
- Plastic, glassware, mixed waste, tubing and pipettes for disposal
- Prosthetics, implants, devices
- Wrapped instruments, porous loads, clothing
- Pathogens, prions, biological agents (requires Effluent Retention Filter)
Smart models are intended for labs and facilities with greater or more diverse needs. They can adeptly handle standard tasks like media prep, waste loads, and labware, but they also are capable of pre-and post-cycle vacuum stages. As a result, Smart autoclaves produce drier loads and can more reliably sterilise trickier items, such as deep fermenters and boiling flasks (which tend to trap cold air). Smart Priorclaves are ideal for mixed waste loads (i.e., those composed of a combination of glassware, pipettes, reagents and biological waste or pathogen-heavy materials, etc.), cloth and textile sterilisation, soil and substrate preparation, wrapped instruments, complex instruments (composed of multiple materials), and porous loads.
Smart autoclaves are favoured by more demanding industrial, research, and production labs. These models are vacuum-equipped as standard. They process a wider range of loads with a wider range of cycles, more quickly processing more challenging loads more reliably.
All Smart models are equipped for both pre-cycle and post-cycle vacuum operations. Their fully featured programmable control systems have expanded memory, allowing you to program twice as many custom cycles (each with its own start delays, temperature and pressure ramps, repeats, dwell times, vacuum stages and timing, “media warming”/holding temperatures, etc.) Built-in cooling, free streaming, USB, drain protection, and air intake filtration are standard on all Smart models.
Performance Range
The Performance range is mid-sized and larger sterilisers for “power users.” All models are steam-jacketed and vacuum-equipped, ready to handle more load types, more loads per day, and produce dryer loads more quickly.
- Media, liquids, and waste fluid
- Unwrapped instruments
- Sealed containers, including cans and pouches (requires air ballast and compressor)
- Fermenters, bioreactors
- Soil, substrate, plant tissue culture
- Plastic, glassware, mixed waste, tubing and pipettes for disposal
- Prosthetics, implants, devices
- Wrapped instruments, porous loads, clothing
- Pathogens, prions, biological agents (requires effluent retention filter)
Autoclaves in the Performance range run the widest set of cycles on the most diverse array of loads. They produce drier loads more quickly and reliably and at a lower cost than many comparable sterilisers. Performance autoclaves are designed for high throughput operation (i.e., more than four complete cycles each day) and are especially adept at processing awkward, bulky, and tall items. Fast to heat and fast to cool, their small footprint (relative to chamber size and capabilities) allow some of the smallest laboratories to have the highest capacity and performance steam autoclaves available.
Every steriliser in the Performance range comes both vacuum-equipped and steam/water-jacketed yielding both fast sterilisation operations and the full range of load types and mixed loads. The fully-featured programmable control system has expanded memory, allowing you to program twice as many custom cycles (each with its own start delays, temperature and pressure ramps, repeats, dwell times, vacuum stages and set-points, “media warming”/holding temperatures, etc.). Built-in cooling, free streaming, USB, drain protection and air intake filtration are standard.
Each Priorclave autoclave is built to order, please request a quote to discuss your requirements.
