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H₂O₂ Decontamination Airlock

H₂O₂ decontamination system: secure transfer to a sterile environment

We offer a complete range of secure transfer airlocks using an H₂O₂ decontamination system. These airlocks are specially designed to handle thermosensitive or moisture-sensitive loads, ensuring effective decontamination while preserving product integrity. They also provide optimal operator safety by minimizing exposure risks to hydrogen peroxide.

  • H₂O₂ decontamination system (H₂O₂ airlock)
  • Capacity: from 500 liters to several cubic meters according to your needs

What is an H₂O₂ airlock?

An H₂O₂ airlock (hydrogen peroxide airlock) is a decontamination system used in sensitive environments such as cleanrooms, pharmaceutical laboratories, or biotech and cosmetic production units.

Practically, it is an airlock (buffer zone or intermediate chamber) equipped to generate and disperse vaporized hydrogen peroxide (H₂O₂) via nebulization to sterilize air, surfaces, and objects passing through. This airlock allows you to:

  • Reduce cross-contamination risks by isolating clean zones from “dirty” zones.

  • Effectively decontaminate equipment or products entering or exiting a cleanroom.

  • Maintain a sterile environment in compliance with GMP/cGMP standards without leaving toxic residues, as hydrogen peroxide naturally breaks down into water and oxygen.

Example of use: In a pharmaceutical cleanroom, all equipment, materials, or packaging that must move from a non-sterile area to a critical zone passes through an H₂O₂ airlock for decontamination before entering the sensitive environment.

What is H₂O₂?

H₂O₂ is hydrogen peroxide, a chemical compound made of two hydrogen atoms and two oxygen atoms. In liquid or vapor form, it is widely used as a decontamination and sterilization agent because it:

  • Effectively destroys bacteria, viruses, and fungi on surfaces or in the air

  • Leaves no toxic residues, as it naturally decomposes into water and oxygen

  • Can sterilize equipment, instruments, and sensitive environments, such as cleanrooms, pharmaceutical, and biotech laboratories

In short, H₂O₂ is a “disinfectant” that transforms into safety, making it ideal for protecting products and critical zones without leaving chemical traces.

Why install an H₂O₂ system?

A decontamination airlock is essential for securing your processes and protecting your products. It acts as a barrier between high-risk areas and critical environments, ensuring everything passing through is ready to enter a sterile zone.

Its use allows you to:

  • Reduce risks of errors or contamination by ensuring equipment, instruments, or packaging are fully decontaminated before use

  • Maintain compliance with GMP/BPF standards, crucial in pharmaceutical, cosmetic, or food industries

  • Optimize safety and quality by minimizing manual interventions and handling that could introduce contamination

What goes into this system?

In a decontamination airlock, you place everything that must move from a “dirty” zone to a critical or sterile zone to avoid contamination. Specifically, you can include:

  • Equipment and instruments: laboratory devices, production tools, handling utensils

  • Materials and packaging: bottles, boxes, pouches, containers, or ready-to-sterilize packaging

  • Culture media and reagents: for biotech or pharmaceutical labs (e.g., media preparation autoclaves)

  • Samples or semi-finished products entering a cleanroom or GMP environment

The goal is to ensure that every object or material passing through the airlock is sterile or decontaminated via H₂O₂ or another system before entering the critical zone.

Effective & safe decontamination with H₂O₂

The Sofast H₂O₂ decontamination airlock (a member of Actini Group) is designed to ensure the secure transfer of sensitive loads into a clean environment. Using H₂O₂ nebulization technology, it provides effective decontamination of your equipment while protecting operators and complying with GMP and cGMP standards.

Ideal for laboratories, pharmaceutical industries, and sensitive production sites, this airlock can handle all types of thermosensitive or fragile loads, including electronic components, plastics, packaging, and PPE.

Technical specifications & capacities

  • Capacity: 500 liters to several cubic meters, depending on your needs

  • Applications: surface decontamination of equipment and tools

  • Technology: H₂O₂ nebulization for maximum effectiveness

  • Load types: laboratory equipment, PPE, electronic components, plastics, packaging

  • Door opening: hinged or horizontal (optional)

  • Loading: carrier trolley or modular shelf baskets

  • Design: rectangular and cGMP compliant

  • Specific features: adjustable H₂O₂ concentration

Supervision & automation

The system is monitored by SoBatch software from Wonderware, allowing precise, real-time tracking of decontamination cycles. It offers intuitive interfaces to visualize equipment status, control process parameters, and generate automated traceable reports.

Automation is handled by Schneider or Siemens controllers, ensuring reliability and precision of operations. The controllers manage each process step (nebulization, contact time, ventilation, safety) while maintaining optimal cycle repeatability.

The system can integrate into a centralized platform for controlling and supervising multiple units from a single point. This functionality simplifies cycle coordination, alert management, data collection, and predictive maintenance, improving overall operational efficiency.

Why choose the Sofast H₂O₂ airlock?

  • Fast and effective decontamination of all sensitive surfaces

  • Maximum protection for teams and products

  • Flexibility: suitable for thermosensitive or large loads

  • Compliant with GMP and cGMP standards, ideal for the pharmaceutical industry

  • Intelligent supervision and full automation for simplified control

Safety and compliance

The Sofast H₂O₂ airlock protects operators from hydrogen peroxide risks and ensures full traceability of operations. Every intervention is controlled and documented, guaranteeing compliance with the strictest industrial and pharmaceutical standards.

Adaptation to all your equipment

The H₂O₂ decontamination airlock is ideal for decontaminating bottles, syringes, glassware, laboratory equipment, and similar items, ensuring optimal hygiene and operator safety.

Specifications

Design

rectangular, cGMP compliant

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Technology

nebulization

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Door opening

hinged or horizontal (optional)

Loading

carrier trolley, modular shelf baskets

Decontamination airlock vs autoclave: understanding the difference

In sensitive environments such as cleanrooms, pharmaceutical laboratories, or biotech production units, sterilization and decontamination are critical to ensuring product safety and GMP/BPF compliance. Two pieces of equipment are often used but serve different roles: H₂O₂ airlocks and autoclaves.

Often, they are used together: materials first pass through the H₂O₂ airlock for rapid decontamination, then through a GMP autoclave for complete sterilization.

These solutions are part of a comprehensive decontamination strategy that protects product quality, operator safety, and ensures full compliance with pharmaceutical standards.

H₂O₂ decontamination system

The decontamination airlock acts as a buffer between a “dirty” area and a critical zone. Its role is to quickly decontaminate equipment, instruments, or packaging using hydrogen peroxide vapor (H₂O₂) while protecting surfaces and objects from cross-contamination.

These airlocks are especially suitable for thermosensitive or moisture-sensitive loads, allowing safe transfer of delicate items without damage.

The H₂O₂ airlock prepares equipment for entry into a critical zone by decontaminating it quickly and gently.

The autoclave

In contrast, an autoclave is a closed sterilization device that generally uses pressurized steam to sterilize equipment, instruments, or culture media.

It ensures complete and homogeneous sterilization, even inside closed containers, and can be designed as a GMP autoclave, pharmaceutical autoclave, or media preparation autoclave depending on needs.

The autoclave reliably sterilizes equipment or products for environments where safety and traceability are essential.

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