CellIx® CO₂ incubator, 180L

Sterilization Cycle:Contamination Control & Elimination

CO2 incubators provide an optimal cell growth environment by maintaining a humidified atmosphere with temperature and carbon dioxide control. These conditions not only promote cell growth, but also the growth of microbes like bacteria, yeast, molds and other fungi. The contamination-reducing features of CellIx® provides optimal cell growth, valuable contamination control technologies, and advanced design for highly critical cell culture applications.

HEPA Filters

Contamination control and elimination have been a major concern in cell culture laboratories. The in-built HEPA filters in CellIx® continuously filter the chamber air volume. The HEPA filter traps the particulate air borne contaminants, ensures the air inside the chamber remains clean and reduces cross contamination. Our HEPA continuously filters the entire chamber volume every 60 seconds and provides ISO Class 5 (Class 100) air quality conditions within 5 minutes of door opening.

Dual Sterilization Modes

While you can manually clean the insides of the CO2 incubator, this incubator is also equipped with optional dual sterilization method. CellIx® offers dual sterilization modes: a 140°C dry air sterilization cycle of 10 hours and sterilization by UV method. The dry heat sterilization is usually chosen over the other methods, since it eliminates mycoplasma, fungi, yeasts, spores and molds. High heat dry sterilization will kill bacteria that may be located in shadowed crevices as well.

Easy to Use

You can activate the sterilization cycle with just a touch of a button.

Safe

Heating is automatically cut by safety device when temperature control fails or there is excessive heating over set point.

Effective

All 6 sides of the chamber are covered with heating wires which bring about uniform heating and provides fast heatup & temperature recovery. Three parts of heating section are controlled and calibrated individually by 3 temperature sensors. Incubator sterilization can be performed with a 4W UV lamp. The UV light doesn't reach the samples and sterilization can be performed during operation. UV sterilization causes an antimicrobial effect by the damage it causes to a microorganism’s DNA when nucleotides absorb high energy photons. This can make UV sterilization an effective solution to reduce contamination.

Contamination Control & Elimination

CellIx® is optionally available with copper oxide chamber instead of the traditional stainless steel. Copper has natural bactericidal & fungicidal properties.