Cryolab Publishes Specification Guidance on Liquid Nitrogen Storage Tanks for IVF Laboratories

WEST SUSSEX, U.K. - EntSun -- Guidance sets out why capacity is the least informative figure on a cryogenic quotation and how evaporation rate determines the true cost of ownership.

Cryolab Ltd, a specialist supplier of cryogenic equipment and consumables to IVF, blood banking, tissue banking and research laboratories, has published detailed guidance on specifying liquid nitrogen storage vessels.

The guidance addresses a pattern common in cryogenic procurement. Enquiries typically arrive as capacity questions, while the specification chain in a cryopreservation laboratory runs from sample format outward: straw or vial format determines goblet and visotube compatibility, which determines cane and canister layout, which in turn determines rack configuration and the neck diameter required. The vessel is the final decision in that sequence, yet it carries the largest cost and the longest lead time and therefore reaches procurement first.

The article advises laboratories to request capacity calculations against their own straw and visotube formats rather than accepting headline counts, noting that a goblet rated for a given number of 0.25 ml straws holds considerably fewer high security straws.

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On storage mode, the guidance sets out the case for both liquid and vapour phase storage, referencing the ASRM and SART Practice Committees' observation in Fertility and Sterility (2020;114:486-491) that liquid nitrogen is not sterile, and states that either position can be justified provided the decision is documented rather than inherited.

The guidance also addresses static evaporation rate as the principal determinant of running cost, advising laboratories to treat manufacturer figures as controlled baselines rather than predictions, and to establish local consumption baselines in litres per week after installation. A steady rise at unchanged workload, the article notes, typically indicates a vacuum question months before frost becomes visible on the outer shell.

Cryolab was established in 2000 and holds ISO 9001:2015 BSI Quality Management System certification. The company supplies cryogenic equipment, consumables, accessories and servicing to hospitals, IVF clinics and research facilities in the United Kingdom and internationally.

https://cryolab.co.uk/choosing-liquid-nitrogen-storage-tank/