Lab Water Products
Water in the Laboratory
Water is the most commonly used solvent in laboratories and constitutes often more than 99% of the mass of solutions used in experimentations. The quality of water used in the lab is therefore critical for the success of the tests performed.
Water quality will depend on the proper selection, design and efficiency of the technologies used to purify water and on the accuracy and the sensitivity instruments used to monitor water contaminants levels. Stringent Quality Insurance (Certification, Calibration, Qualification and validation) is mandatory to ensure that water purification and monitoring techniques are properly incorporated in manufactured products in order to deliver the expected end result.
The purification of water has also a cost and in order to optimize the operating cost of a laboratory while maintaining adequate technical standards, it is important to use the right water quality for each application.
Millipore has permanently considered these points to design 3 ranges of laboratory water systems providing 3 different types of water qualities described below. Other systems have also been designed to take into account the specific needs of the Clinical market. Finally, Millipore has designed reservoirs according to the GWSP (Good Water Storage Practices) for storing pure water in optimum conditions.
Ultrapure (Type I) Water Systems
Ultrapure (Type 1) water is recommended for critical laboratory applications including advanced analytical techniques or cell culture and molecular biology experimentations.
It should be produced on demand to immediately produce solutions as water at this level of purity will quickly pick up contaminants from the lab atmosphere as well as from the container in which it is poured.
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Pure (Type II) Water Systems
Pure (Type 2) water is recommended for regular applications in the laboratory such as the production of buffers or the final washing of glassware. Type 2 water can be conveniently stored in optimized storage devices. It is economically produced using the electrodeionisation process in which a weak electric current permanently regenerates mixed bed ion-exchange resins.
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Pure (Type III) Water Systems
Pure (Type 3) water is acceptable for non critical applications such as the feed to autoclaves or filling of heating baths. It is generally produced by reverse osmosis.
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Clinical Water Systems
Clinical Water systems produce high purity water meeting the NCCLS and CAP standards and are specifically designed to feed clinical analyzers.
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Water Storage Devices
Millipore storage devices are designed following Good Water Storage Practices whose goal is to avoid the purified water recontamination by ions, organics, particulates or bacteria from the lab atmosphere or the reservoir material. Special devices (ASM) were developed to limit the risk of development of biofilm.» Learn More...
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