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International Journal of Epidemiology 2008 37(Supplement 1):i62-i64; doi:10.1093/ije/dym287
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2008; all rights reserved.

Design and implementation of a large-scale liquid nitrogen archive

Mark Fagan1,* and Peter Ball2

1Lab Mode Ltd.
2Jencons-PLS.

* Corresponding author. 54 Tanners Drive, Blakelands, Milton Keynes, MK14 5BN, UK. E-mail: mark.fagan{at}labmode.co.uk


  Abstract

UK Biobank required a cryogenic facility to store, in vapour phase, a minimum of 5 000 000 1.2 ml capacity micro-tubes held in racks of 96 tubes below –180°C for a 20 year period. The archive would be housed in a 900 m2 industrial unit remote from the main laboratory area that would be generally unmanned and would require a complete cryogenic infrastructure. A commercial supplier was commissioned to provide a complete system including design, project management, supply and installation of all the cryogenic storage requirement including bulk tank, super insulated vacuum lines, Taylor Wharton LABS80K high capacity long-term vapour phase storage vessels with inventory control systems and all the local and remote software. The large-scale storage vessels were selected to give a high storage density, temperature stability and storage in vapour phase.

Keywords Cryogenics, vapour phase, Taylor Wharton

Accepted 10 December 2007


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