Medical vacuum plants for hospitals: the complete guide.
ULTRAVAC keeps suction at every terminal unit of the hospital, fully automatically. Ultra Controlo designs and builds it in Portugal on Elmo Rietschle pumps, alongside anaesthetic gas scavenging and dental suction.
Suction, without pause.
A medical vacuum system is the central plant and pipeline that provide continuous suction for clinical use across the hospital.
How suction reaches every bed.
A vacuum plant works the other way round. It pulls air from the hospital, stops liquids and bacteria on the way, and sends the rest outside.
Suction
Clinicians draw suction from the terminal units by each bed, from the operating room to the ward, whenever they need it.
Every bedFilter
A transparent liquid separator catches liquids before they reach two bacterial filters, which hold back bacteria. Gauges show the pressure drop across each filter.
2 bacterial filtersHold
A vacuum vessel of 24 to 6,000 litres keeps a reserve between the network and the pumps, at a normal vacuum of −0.85 bar.
24 to 6,000 LPump
One to twelve Elmo Rietschle pumps, of 3 to 1,600 m³/h each, run automatically. The QuVAC touch-screen controller rotates them and starts them progressively.
1 to 12 pumpsExhaust
The pumps discharge through dedicated exhaust pipes, and a translucent trap collects condensate from the exhaust.
Dedicated exhaust