What are environmental chambers used for in a laboratory?

Environmental chambers are ideal equipment to maintain the climatic conditions of industrial products, electronic components and biological elements, where their conditions include humidity, extreme temperatures, radiation, vibration, sun atomization, ultraviolet light and others. These equipment, aim to monitor microbial growth tests, adjusting camera parameters, to reveal the progress of degradation. In addition, they meet the conditions defined for the stability control of different materials, simulating different values of temperature and humidity, in which it may be relevant in certain tests.

Within the laboratories, environmental chambers are used to monitor and condition samples, where stress tests, material demonstrations, expiration tests, long-term tests and for fixed storage are used.

Performance of Environmental Chambers

Environmental chambers are devices designed to create fictitious climates, causing situations similar to the natural environment, through electronic mechanisms, able to simulate temperature, light and humidity, in which they are normally used, for tests of long-term duration and temperature maintenance at a programmed level. 

The air conditioning methods of the ambient chambers, are perfectly adjusted to each other and offer a uniform air circulation along, located on the side walls and with the interior fully charged.

This equipment also contributes to biological studies in laboratories, at an advanced level of technology. As it contributes to the development of the materials, maintaining the temperature and humidity level to ensure that they continue throughout the test cycle.

Environmental chambers in laboratories

Environmental chambers within laboratories provide the evaluation and reliability of the samples to be evaluated, to reveal whether a product is prone to corrosion and oxidation, or emits some kind of harmful emissions, when used. Therefore, in order to evaluate the behavior of the samples in the best way possible, certain forms of stability tests have been established:

  • Long-term testing: this procedure is used to observe samples in real-world conditions, depending on the climatic zones, where the active substances should be examined regularly for long-term storage in the environmental chamber, and may last for up to several years.
  • Stability control in development: is done to corroborate, if possible maintain the quality beyond the expiration date. 
  • Accelerated durability testing: simulate the aging of samples in real time, in shortened time intervals. These tests are exposed to a higher temperature. Thus, for example, it is possible to reach in 6 weeks a state that under normal conditions would take a year.
  • Stress tests: are tests under extreme conditions, e.g. at 60 °C and 60 % relative humidity, usually performed at the beginning of the study, in order to decide which test methods are best suited to the active substances. 

According to the studies to be carried out in the laboratories, with the implementation of the environmental chambers, they evaluate the quality and reliability of the samples in a controlled environment, with due monitoring and evaluation of the long-term effects of the product in a confined area.

Environmental Chamber in Kalstein

We at Kalstein are trained to enforce the requirements of our users, in terms of the selection of laboratory equipment. We offer you the YR Series Environmental Camera, which has attractive features, with a wide range of temperature and humidity regulation, which can meet various user needs. In addition, it adopts a balanced temperature regulation mode, it achieves an ideal temperature environment. It has stable balanced heating to carry out stable and high precision temperature control, timer and over-temperature alarm function. The structure of the double layer door seal ensures that the energy in the cavity is not easy to dissipate.

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