Radial Blowers for Medical Applications

Micronel high pressure medical blowers and turbine products are used in a wide variety of medical and scientific equipment requiring precise air movement of some kind. Applications such as Breathing therapy, Ventilators, Respirators, Personal Protection, ICU Air Mattresses, Air Purification, Disinfection, Air Sampling, Laboratory, Diagnostic & Test all require some form of air movement with significant pressure or suction (vacuum) to force air through tubes or chambers or overcome system/filter resistance.

Micronel’s high performance blower range are perfectly tailored to the needs and requirements of medical breathing ventilation therapy. Full Intensive care unit (ICU) intubated ventilator systems may require over 60+ millibar pressure to fill and inflate diseased lungs. For less severe cases a less harsh treatment may be used with a tight-fitting mask to provide so called continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) as an alternative non-invasive method of ventilator support for some patients. CPAP ventilators typically require around 20 to 30 millibars pressure to assist with breathing and oxygen therapy. Micronel’s medical blowers and turbines utilise long life, highly efficient high-speed brushless motor drives in the smallest form factors to generate high static pressures up to 16 mbar with up to 1000 l/min free blowing airflow. Crucially versions with Oxygen O2 and anaesthetic gas resistance are also available.

Many other diverse medical related applications require air movement and pressure ranging from pressure relieving air mattresses to prevent bed sores in patients confined to hospital beds in intensive care, disinfection systems for a variety of settings through to air monitoring and sampling in pharmaceutical production plants and laboratories.