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Low Profile HEPA/ULPA/PTFE Fan Filter Units – Available options

As the leader in custom engineered Fan Filters Units (FFUs), we are often presented with the challenge of fitting a FFU in a restricted height area. As the semiconductor equipment market continues to pack more equipment in less space, the challenge of getting clean air to the key zones while staying within the space allotted is increasingly challenging. Read the rest of this entry »

Automatic Pressure Controlled (APC) FFUs

Many versions are available to cover different requirements, and following are the 3 basic groups of APC FFUs. Many more subsets of these 3 basic groups exist. Read the rest of this entry »

ESTECH 2012 – IEST 58th Annual Technical Meeting

Jim Harris of TES-Clean Air Systems has accepted an invitation to speak at the ESTECH conference Thursday May 3rd on the subjects of applying Airborne Contamination Filters (AMC) and Ionization to Fan Filters on EFEMS and process tools. Read the rest of this entry »

Applying Airborne Molecular contamination filters to FFUs {Video}

Jim Harris, Owner of TES-CleanAirSystems, shows a presentation on the use of Airborne Molecular Contamination (AMC) Filters on Fan Filter units (FFUs). Read the rest of this entry »

Engineered RABS Fan Filters {VIDEO}

Jim Harris Owner of TES Clean Air Systems speaking on custom engineered fan filter unit solutions for pharmaceutical RABS applications. Read the rest of this entry »

FFU and Fan Filter Units

A Fan filter Unit is an excellent way to meet the need when a small amount of HEPA/ULPA filtered clean space is required. A fan filter unit can be a very plain item like an Envirco-MAC 10 or something more specific in size and specification, which are referred to by names such as Custom Fan filter Unit , Engineered Fan filter Unit, or Custom specified Fan filter unit. Read the rest of this entry »

Integral LED light in HEPA filter LUMIFILTER (Video)

Jim Harris from TES-Clean Air Systems speaks about a new product, a Lumifilter.   A HEPA filter with a LED light built and tested right in. Only available at TES-Clean Air Systems. Read the rest of this entry »

TES Inc. and Euclid Vidaro Manufacturing. | Guest Blog

Cameron Case from Euclid Vidaro Manufacturing speaking from the offices of TES Clean Air Systems. Read the rest of this entry »

HEPA filter Air flow uniformity

This video discusses the limitation of air flow uniformiy in a typical HEPA Fan filter Unit. Technical explanations for the limitations are discussed and a solution involving the use of a diffusion membrane is proposed. Read the rest of this entry »

Fan Filter Lighting

Lighting in today’s Semiconductor equipment front ends and on the tool.

When a ULPA filtration system, usually in the form of a FFU, is installed the net effect is that you have
the cleanest environment that can be achieved. However one of the things that also happens as a
side effect of the filter being opaque is that any light that was available is now blocked. The answer to
lighting in the Front end/EFEM has taken any number of shapes, but none that are ideal. Fluorescent
lights needs to be replaced and run the risk of breakage where the gases in the bulb are released into
the hyper clean environment.  LEDs are ideal in terms of being very high quality light while giving long
life, but they are typically located off to the side or on the back wall so the light castes shadows and
often what I have seen as far as packaging of the light itself is not up to snuff as far as what should be in
a ISO class 1 or 2 environment.

(Our Answer and Photo Samples Below)  Read the rest of this entry »