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Cryogenic & VIP ULT Freezers water cooling Customer Testimonial - The Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB)

Cryogenic & VIP ULT Freezers water cooling Customer Testimonial - The Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB)

Cryogenic & VIP ULT Freezers water cooling Customer Testimonial - The Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB)

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Overview: The document outlines the implementation of water-cooled freezers at the Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB) in Mainz, Germany. It emphasizes the benefits of energy efficiency, cost savings, and reduced environmental impact.
Specifications: IMB utilizes Panasonic VIP ultra-low temperature (-86ºC) and Cryogenic (-150ºC) freezers with water-cooled condensers. These freezers are essential for storing biological materials at ultra-low temperatures. The water-cooling system operates with water circulated at 18ºC, exiting at 23–24ºC, reducing the need for air-conditioning and allowing heat reuse for central heating.
Procedures and Efficiency: The installation of the freezers is described as straightforward, akin to a 'plug-and-play' process. The facilities are designed to minimize energy consumption through water-cooled systems, reducing operational costs and enhancing efficiency. A centralized monitoring system ensures optimal performance and sample security.
Benefits of Water-Cooling: The water-cooled system offers significant energy savings, cost reductions, and improved sample security. It reduces pull-down time by up to 40%, ensuring faster temperature recovery and better protection of samples. The system also allows for the reuse of heat energy within the facility.
Recommendations: The document recommends water-cooled systems for facilities with recirculating water systems due to their energy efficiency and environmental benefits. Although initially more expensive, Panasonic freezers provide long-term savings and reliability. A hybrid system is also mentioned, which switches to air-cooled mode if necessary to ensure sample security.
Conclusion: The IMB's adoption of Panasonic's water-cooled freezers demonstrates a commitment to sustainability and efficiency, setting a precedent for other research facilities aiming to reduce energy costs and enhance sample protection.
Customer Testimonial: Dr. Berhard Korn highlights the long-term savings, environmental benefits, and high level of service and support from Panasonic.
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Cryogenic & VIP ULT Freezers water cooling Customer Testimonial - The Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB)-1

the IMB is housed in a state-of-the-art laboratory complex, equipped with cutting-edge technologies. With top performance, sustainability and reduced operational costs amongst its priorities, the IMB chose to equip its core facilities with Panasonic’s ultra-low temperature -86ºC and -150ºC freezers, both with water-cooled condensers. The IMB’s research involves a wide variety of different types of biological materials, including human cell In April 2018, our Biomedical Business Brand will change to PHCbi Water-cooled ultra-low temperature freezers Bring significant savings to the Institute of Molecular Biology The Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB) is a centre of excellence in life sciences located in Mainz, Germany. It carries out academic research into developmental biology, epigenetics and DNA-repair towards deepening our understanding of how we develop, adapt to our environment, age and develop diseases, such as cancer. Its work is acknowledged globally. The I ultra MDFfreez optio Cryogenic & VIP ULT Freezers 16 Panasonic Biomedical Journal CUSTOMER TESTIMONIAL - THE INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY (IMB) Employing 160 people, including some of the world’s leading scientific experts in bioinformatics, cytometry, histology, high-end microscopy, micro-array analysis and next generation DNA sequencing, the IMB is housed in a state-of-theart laboratory complex, equipped with cutting-edge technologies. With top performance, sustainability and reduced operational costs amongst its priorities, the IMB chose to equip its core facilities with VIP ultra-low temperature -86ºC and Cryogenic-150ºC freezers, both with water-cooled condensers. The IMB’s research involves a wide variety of different types of biological materials, including human celllines, tissue samples and human protein clones. All these need to be stored at ultra-low temperatures, before nucleic acids and proteins are extracted for further research. With such crucial medical and research applications, the IMB required freezers that offered the highest levels of performanceand reliability to securely store these valuable, often irreplaceable samples. The facilities of the IMB were specificallydesigned to minimise energy consumption and save resources. With this in mind, wherever possible, equipment suchas freezers, centrifuges, lasersystems and sterile work benches, are watercooled, rather than relying on traditional aircooling, therefore, reducing costs and enhancing efficiency. Equipment use is optimised further by sharing resources amongst multiple users from different research groups. The IMB selected 25 VIP MDF-U74V -86ºC ultralow temperature freezers and four Cryogenic MDF-C2156VAN -150ºC freezers. The Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB) in Mainz, GermanyGermany The Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB) in Mainz, play’ experience for us - The freezers arrived, they were hooked up to the cooling water, switched on and they worked! In the longer term, another important befor prote furth cruci appli freez highe and r these irrep facili spec energ resou wher as fre syste wate tradi costs us

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Cryogenic & VIP ULT Freezers water cooling Customer Testimonial - The Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB)-2

Cryogenic & VIP ULT Freezers with water cooling AH freezers were equipped with a water-cooled condenser option and utilise the IBM's central water-cooling system. The 728-litre, space-saving, -86°C ultra-low temperature freezers are used to hold a collection of more than 25,000 different human protein-coding clones, whilst the large capacity (231 litres) -150°C Cryogenic freezers store a large number of human celllines, tumour cell lines and tissue samples. “What we really love about the Panasonic freezers is that they provide a very stable, constant environment with no temperature fluctuation,” said...

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the warmed water is used to contribute to the central heating for the whole building,” explained Dr. Korn1. “With more than 100 instruments throughout the IMB connected to the water-cooling system, only a very CUSTOMER TESTIMONIAL - THE INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY (IMB) few laboratories and Cryogenic & VIP ULT Freezers with water cooling measurement rooms require active cooling. Therefore, the IMB is able to reduce energy costs and benefit the environment.” factor for us was the high level of guarantee provided by EWALD Inno GmbH, Panasonic’s German Distrib well known, not only for the qualit...

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Cryogenic & VIP ULT Freezers with water cooling "With less heat dissipaten in the freezer room, only ventilation is needed, rather than air-conditioning, which not only requires energy but wastes heat" The IMB also runs instruments and equipment, suchas freezers, at the limit of capacity to optimise efficiency. The Panasonic freezers are located together in a dedicated area to make use of a centralised monitoring and alarm system, which constantly checks the temperature, power supply and coolingwater for all units. “Although initially more expensive than equivalent air-cooled freezers, choosing...

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