Cleanroom testing for compliance.
Iso 9 clean room.
Terms definitions and units.
Iso 14644 1 and iso 14698.
Analysis shows there are about 500 000 to 1 million particles per cubic feet of air.
Methods for evaluating and measuring cleanrooms and associated controlled environments.
The primary authority in the us and canada is the iso classification system iso 14644 1.
For instance class 7 cleanroom class 10 000 should contain no more than 2 930 ppm of particulates that are less than 5 microns in size or 352 000 ppm of particulates less than 0 5 microns per cubic meter of room area.
Ordinary room air is around class 1 000 000 or iso 9.
This standard includes the cleanroom classes iso 1 iso 2 iso 3 iso 4 iso 5 iso 6 iso 7 iso 8 and iso 9 with iso 1 being the cleanest and iso 9 the dirtiest class but still cleaner than a regular room.
Cleanroom design and construction.
Iso 14644 1 and iso 14698 are non governmental standards developed by the international organization for standardization iso.
The former applies to clean rooms in general see table below.
Iso cleanroom classifications are usually associated with particulate counts rather than airflow.
To measure contaminants found in the cleanroom the standard deployed is a micron or micrometer μm micron measurement represents the cleanroom standard size for.