Automation of the Water Intrusion Test
The Sartocheck® 4 Trolley has been developed to make integrity testing of hydrophobic sterilizing grade filters safe and easy in the pharmaceutical industry. Both Water Intrusion and Water Flow tests can be performed. The Sartocheck® 4 pilots all the pneumatic valves via the integrated SIEMENS PLC. A PT100 sensor measures the water temperature in the water tank and avoids testing with water out of the predefined temperature range.
Installation
Due to its unique design and its fully automatic two step filling procedure the Sartocheck® 4 Trolley can test all HIMA correlated hydrophobic sterilizing grade membrane filters at a horizontal distance of more than 100 m and a vertical distance of more than 15 m. The external thermal compensated pressure sensor is installed on the top of the housing and measures the pressure drop exactly where the intrusion / water flow take place. Moving the Sartocheck® 4 Trolley during the measurement will have no incidence on the test value.