Thames Cryogenics Limited will provide a 9000-litres, liquid nitrogen storage tank and dewar filling station to the World’s first Stem Cell Bank of its type, which will provide enormous potential for advances in clinical therapy.
Thames cryogenics in association with the National Institute for Biological Standards & Control (NIBSC) have developed the UK Stem Cell Bank project by providing a substantial package of the equipment making up the stem cell repository.
The 9000-litre liquid nitrogen bulk storage tank supplying the NIBSC freezer room is equipped with a Thames Cryogenics dewar filling station. Liquid nitrogen is also transferred to the Stem Cell facility via the company’s trademark SIVL (super-insulated vacuum piping), from a pair of 240 litre pressurised cylinders with an automated changeover unit which in turn feeds a bank of three vapour phase freezers.
Thames cryogenics supplied the cylinders, the changeover system, the freezers and associated inventory assemblies, together with automated shut-off valves, instrumentation and level controls. Validation protocols developed by Jacobs Engineering for the freezers were run in compliance with EU Good Manufacturing Practice for Pharmaceutical Manufacturers (EUc-GMP).
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