Some Popular Applications of Ultra Low Temperature Freezers
It has been ages since the concept of preserving perishable items by deep freezing and flash freezing became popular. Today, if you are looking to keep organic matter of any kind safe for long time, ultra-low temperature freezers are the best and first choice for you. Here is a list of common applications where these freezers are being used all across the world.
1. Meat and Seafood Storage: Meat and seafood are among some of the most popular food items these days. But the inherent nature of these products means that they spoil easily because of bacteria and protozoa in it. For seafood, there is also the distance factor which means that only frozen fish or prawns ca be shipped over long distances.
2. Pharmaceutical Industry: Medical science has made a lot of progress in the last few decades. Considering the increased complexity of ailments that people suffer from, medicines are also very complex and need to be stored in controlled environment at low temperatures for long term storage. The deep freezers keep these medicines safe for long.
3. Organ Transplant Hospitals: Organ transplants have come a very long way and today you can get most of the organs transplanted including simple transplants like eyes to vey complex ones like liver and heart. Yatherm Ultra Low Temperature Freezers (ULT Freezers) are being used all over the world for such purposes.
4. Blood Banks and Plasma Storage Banks: Blood transfusion is a well-established medical practice and almost all major hospitals in large cities and small towns have blood banks. Similarly, blood plasma transfusion has also helped a lot of people recover from diseases like Dengue and COVID. The freezers are used to keep blood and plasma stored for long duration.
5. Commercial Aviation Sector: Did you ever wonder that when you take a long-haul flight how do the cabin crew bring you all the food during the flight? This is another area where ultra-low freezing machines have worked miracles. Planes take off with cooked food placed in these freezers, crew reheats them when its time to serve.
6. IVF and Test Tube Baby Centers: Freezing eggs has allowed a lot of women to take pregnancy decisions at the right time. Similarly, the IVF baby clinics have also benefitted a lot from development of deep cooling technologies where they can store samples in ultra-low freezers for days at stretch.
7. Chemical R&D Labs: Chemical labs involved in organic and inorganic chemistry research as well as bio chemical studies have started to use ultra-low temperature freezers in their experiments and for long- and short-term sample storage. Chemistry labs in schools are now procuring these cabinets for sample and chemical storage.
8. MRE and Disaster Recovery Food Preparation: MREs are in use by militaries at a larger than ever scale because of longer deployment periods, asymmetric warfare and continuing importance of Close Quarter Battles. Meals, Ready to Eat are prepared for armed forces by putting fresh food in ultra-low temperature freezers and reheating them as need in field.
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