Priorclave helps reduce water usage by up to 80%

Many countries around the globe have seen their water charges rise, with prices varying greatly by location. In some countries, prices are set to rise by as much as 18% over two years. England’s “Plan for Water” policy paper states that England and Wales currently use 14 billion litres of water per day and will need an additional 4 billion litres per day by 2050. The success of ensuring every nation’s future public water supply will depend upon a twin-track approach: delivering new supplies of water and reducing water demand. To reduce demand, we all need to use water sensibly, utilizing more water-efficient resources. Priorclave stands ready to assist you and your organisation in this endeavour.

When the University of Alabama at Birmingham in the United States of America compared their steam-jacketed autoclaves and Priorclave’s non-jacketed laboratory autoclaves side by side, they found that jacketed autoclaves used in excess of thirty times more water – with no corresponding benefit. In field tests, Priorclave laboratory autoclaves' operating costs have been documented at more than 80% lower than same-capacity jacketed autoclaves.

Shape can have a significant impact on performance. Given two like-sized autoclave chambers, you’ll find that the rectangular chamber requires a heater rated at roughly three times that of a comparable cylindrical chamber. In practice, it takes about as much energy just to heat a rectangular chamber up to begin sterilization as it does to run an entire cycle through a cylindrical model. On an annual basis, a cylindrical-vessel front-loading Priorclave autoclave can be expected to use 1/6th to 1/10th as much water and energy as a comparable rectangular model.

For more information on Priorclave helps reduce water usage by up to 80% talk to Priorclave Ltd