Priorclave Top Loading vertical autoclaves can accommodate the tallest flasks, fermentors, and bioreactors at one-third the price of a comparable front-loading autoclave. Priorclave's top-loading autoclaves are among the most compact full-size units on the market today. Compared to similar-sized medical-grade rectangular-vessel units, cylindrical autoclaves are easier to operate, less expensive to maintain, and more reliable over a longer working life.
Benefits
- 60L, 100Land 150L models available in base and smart ranges
- Programmable TACTROL® 3 Control System with simple "one-touch" start
- PED-certified 316L Stainless Steel Chamber and Door
- Quickseal Single-Action Interlocking Safety Lid cannot be opened unsafely
- Chamber Pressure Gauge
- Stainless Steel Loading Baskets
- Biomaster™ Antimicrobial Surfaces
- Assisted Load Cooling
- Benchtop or Mobile Cart mounted for ease of positioning and service
- One-button start
- Permission-based Door Release
- Automatic Timed Freesteaming
- Media Warming and Delayed Start
- Thermocouple Entry and Test Ports
- Two full-width stainless steel anti-tip Loading Baskets
Top-loading autoclaves are very popular internationally and in life-science research. Not only do they easily accommodate the tallest flasks, fermentors, and bioreactors, they're also excellent for waste processing, especially in large batches (pop the lid and drop in the bag, just like a rubbish bin).
By relying on ultra-efficient cylindrical pressure vessels, Priorclave has engineered top-loading autoclaves that feature large capacities, low loading heights, small footprints, and low lifetime operating costs. Every Priorclave is custom built in our London factory, specifically to handle your applications. All top-loading sterilizers can be outfitted for “gravity” or vacuum cycles, with in-chamber or independent heating. They come supplied with a stainless steel load support plate and stainless steel mesh baskets for optimal steam circulation. All models include the most current version of our full-featured, fully-programmable Tactrol Control System.
Ranges
Priorclave benchtop 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.
Each Priorclave autoclave is built to order, please request a quote to discuss your requirements.
