Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have retrofitted a business refrigeration container designed to make sure COVID-19 vaccines stay at ultra-low temperatures throughout lengthy transport and whereas regionally saved.
Most COVID vaccines, relying on the producer, are saved at minus 70 or 30 levels Celsius. Current transport strategies use dry ice to take care of desired temperatures. However, longer journey occasions, significantly to distant places with out supportive infrastructure, require prolonged refrigeration.
In a examine, researchers collaborated with Carrier and created a testbed utilizing a light-weight aluminum container geared up with a refrigeration system, vaccine packages and optimum cargo structure and storage rack design that saved temperatures constant and uniform all through the container. Simulation research demonstrated this technique can maintain required temperatures twice as lengthy.
“We significantly increased the dry ice life, providing reliable temperature control and a safe, secure solution for cooling vaccines for transport and last mile storage,” ORNL’s Jian Sun stated.
Jian Sun et al, COVID 19 vaccine distribution answer to the final mile problem: Experimental and simulation research of ultra-low temperature refrigeration system, International Journal of Refrigeration (2021). DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrefrig.2021.11.005
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