Positive pressure is used in cleanrooms where the priority is keeping any possible germs or contaminants out of the cleanroom.
Positive pressure clean room.
This is in contrast to a negative pressure room where air is sucked in.
In the event that there was a leak or a door opened clean air would be forced out of the cleanroom rather than unfiltered air being allowed into the cleanroom.
Positive pressure is a pressure within a system that is greater than the environment that surrounds that system.
Positive air pressure means the cleanroom or rooms are pumped up with more filtered air then the surrounding space outside the cleanroom s.
With cleaned air being sucked in and contaminants being ejected positive pressure cleanrooms are classified according to the concentration of airborne particles inside of them and the size of those particles the goal being to minimize the number and size of the particles in a clean room through.
There are different cascading levels of positive air pressure from the cleanest rooms at the highest pressure down to the gown room or airlock room.
This is achieved through the use of an hvac system which pumps clean filtered air into the structure.
A positive air pressure cleanroom has an air pressure level that is greater than that of the surrounding environment.
Effective positive and negative pressure rooms are an important part of industrial climate control systems.
Use is also made of positive pressure to ensure there is no ingress of the environment.