Ballroom-style cleanroom assembled from modular buildings
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Solution Overview
Problem
There is a need for modern, transportable cleanrooms that are larger and offer more flexible space while maintaining serviceability and maintainability, as existing modular cleanrooms are limited in size and flexibility.
Innovation Solution
The solution involves constructing a large, open ballroom-style cleanroom by joining multiple modular building sections with tension cables, which are run through extruded tubes under the floor, and using air bearings for alignment and support, allowing for standardized utility panels to be aligned and connected efficiently, creating a seamless and sterilizable space.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple modular cleanrooms are set together in warehouses or gray space buildings, then the cleanrooms can provide complete utility functions and maintain serviceability, but the space is limited and flexibility is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The cleanroom system is divided into multiple modular building sections that can be independently manufactured and then assembled together. Each module contains standardized utility panels that align when joined, enabling flexible configuration while maintaining complete utility functions. This segmentation allows the system to adapt to different space requirements without increasing overall complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
Standardized utility panels are incorporated into each modular building section, providing universal connection points for electrical, HVAC, and plumbing utilities. These panels are positioned to align automatically when modules are joined, creating a multi-functional system that can serve various cleanroom configurations while simplifying utility connections through standardization.
2Area of stationary object
If modular building sections are joined together with tension cables, then a large ballroom-style open area is formed with aligned utility connections, but the structural complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Multiple modular building sections are joined together using tension cables that connect corresponding points on adjacent modules. This merging of separate modules creates a large ballroom-style open area while the standardized connection points and aligned utility panels maintain structural simplicity and facilitate straightforward assembly despite the increased scale.
3Productivity
If traditional modular cleanrooms are used, then they are transportable and can be quickly deployed, but they are limited in size and offer less flexible space
Solution Approach 1:
The cleanroom is segmented into multiple modular building sections that can be independently manufactured, transported, and quickly deployed. These sections are then assembled together to create larger flexible spaces, maintaining the rapid deployment advantage of modular construction while overcoming the size limitations of single-module cleanrooms.
Solution Approach 2:
The modular building sections are designed to be dynamically configurable, allowing the cleanroom space to be reconfigured by adding, removing, or repositioning modules. This dynamic approach maintains quick deployability while providing adaptability for different space requirements and equipment layouts.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
This approach enables the creation of a large, flexible, and serviceable cleanroom with minimal obstructions, allowing for easier reconfiguration of equipment and simplified utility connections, while maintaining cleanliness and ease of assembly and disassembly.
Implementation Method 1
During assembly, air bearings beneath the modular building sections are pressurized so that the sections can be aligned and pushed together by hand
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AI summary
A rapidly deployable cleanroom is constructed from multiple modular building sections that are side-by-side and have similarly sized lengths, as well as user-accessible panels in multiple of them for air, water, power, networking, and other utilities at a similar internal location along their lengths. The utility panels can be standardized such that each panel is substantially identical to one another. The modular building sections can be drawn together using tension cables within lateral hollow extruded structural tubes beneath and/or above the cleanroom, the tension system utilizing jackscrews to pull everything tight. Because the utility panels are at the same longitudinal location in the building sections, the joined structure and resulting open space “ballroom” style cleanroom has the utility panels aligned with each other inside the cleanroom.