Company
TECH PLUS has since 1988 specialised in the research, design, creation, installation and maintenance of hyperbaric oxygen treatment chambers, tunnel borer airlocks and hyperbaric chambers for animals, as well as in expert assessment and training in the use of this equipment.
TECH PLUS also offers hyperbaric chambers for lease and provides training for dedicated staff. Our company has operations both in France and abroad.
Hyperbaric chamber supplies for
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Hospitals
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The military
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Tunnel borers
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Electrical cable pressure tests
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Oil exploration
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Industrial diving
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Animal therapy
Tech Plus also provides the installation of medical gas systems.
Legal obligations:
Tech Plus:
- — Applies a Quality Assurance system on all its services.
- — Holds the ISO 9001 certification.
Technical achievements by European standards:
- — The medical CE marking
- — The IMCA standards
- — EN 13445
- — EN 12110
Services offered
General principles:
- — Oxygen therapy (O2T) is a medical technique consisting of the administration by respiratory route of pure oxygen or oxygen mixed with vector gases (helium, nitrogen, carbon dioxide), at 1.3 to 3 times the absolute atmospheric pressure (ATA).
- — The patient is placed in an airtight chamber connected to a hyperbaric unit.
- — The inhaled oxygen dissolves in the blood.
- — Plasma transports oxygen to the organs for enhanced distribution in body tissue.
- — O2T is administered in sessions, for variable durations and at variable pressures according to treatment indications and depending on the hyperbaric centre used.
- — O2T is used in many pathologies (decompression accidents, carbon monoxide poisoning, gas embolism, necrotising soft tissue infections, chronic refractory osteomyelitis, second-degree burns, radiation-induced injuries, intracranial abscesses, crushed limbs, delayed wound healing, Neuroblastomas, Sudden hearing loss, etc.).
Here is a 3D model
of the TECH PLUS hyberaric chamber
- — Chamber for chronic conditions
- — Staff airlock
- — Emergency chamber
- Length: 12000mm
- Diameter: 3000mm
- Operating pressure: 5 bars
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3D model
Hospitals
A hyperbaric chamber is a pressurised enclosure with a capacity for one or more persons, used for the purpose of medical treatment. There are two kinds of treatment chambers:
- Monoplace chambers, with a single compartment for a single patient, with the main chamber being accessible by medical personnel via a staff airlock.
- Multiplace chambers, with two or more compartments, enabling access of staff, patients and equipment while maintaining the pressure in the main enclosure.
Hyperbaric installation
Comprising:
- — Premises for the hyperbaric unit
- — Hyperbaric systems with associated fixtures (sub-assemblies)
- — Maintenance equipment (gas and power supplies)
- — Technical and medical personnel
- — Specific administrative arrangements
Hyperbaric Center:
- — This is a medical facility that delivers oxygen and other medical gases for patients and provides targeted monitoring and attention.
- — The hyperbaric medical centre must be located in a hospital or in functional proximity to one.
Foldable chamber : Oracle
Autonomous multiplaces and mobile hyperbaric unit
Military, professional and scuba diving sports exposes the diver at the risk of a decompression accident. The management of this type of accident is based on an early recompression and hyperbaric oxygenation, performed inside a hyperbaric chamber.
The general ergonomics and design of ORACLE® are intended for a usage in close proximity to a submarine work site in professional diving or in isolated theaters of military diving operations. In can also be used in sports and recreational diving. ORACLE® is an innovative system that allows the support of a diver suffering from a decompression accident. It is characterized by:
- — a flexible, foldable and transportable hyperbaric chamber,
- — an interior space and a conception designed to accommodate an accidented diver and a doctor,
- — a reduced size in use and storage configuration,
- — a simplicity in its implementation and deployment,
- — a reduced weight and volume compared to existing hyperbaric systems.
The military
Hyperbaric chambers for military use
We provide the various branches of the military with hyperbaric chambers on the basis of the competency of French military experts, recognised in the area of regulatory instruction and standards in hyperbaric medicine.
The hyperbaric treatments are intended for:
- — Bomb disposal divers
- — Combat divers
- — Military personnel
- — Any person involved in the oxygen therapy treatment process.
The setup of fixed or mobile hyperbaric systems for the military covers diver safety and technical infrastructures.
Tech Plus provides transportation for the equipment and also organises and trains the personnel involved in standard and emergency procedures.
Leasing
mobile hyperbaric chambers
Housed within a 20-foot container, the hyperbaric chamber for lease is a mobile facility for treating medical issues related to diving.
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Mechanical functions (principle of equal pressure)
- — Autoclaves doors
- — Medicine airlock (on the chamber)
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Pneumatic functions
- — HP pressurisation of chamber / airlock
- — Chamber / airlock exhaust system
- — External discharge of CO2 through the discharge valve situated in the chamber and in the airlock.
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Electrical functions
- — Illumination of the chamber and airlock (cool light)
- — Intercommunication systems
- — Inverter.
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Mechanical features
Pressure: 5 bars
Pressure increases restricted by a safety valve on the main chamber.
— Manipulation by means of 4 jacking points arranged on the top of the 20-feet container. -
Pneumatic features
- Airtightness is achieved by means of:
- — O-rings on the doors and the viewing windows
- — Taper threads for the bushings on the pneumatic partitions
- — The main chamber and the airlock have pressure gauges
- — An oxygen analyser is also installed on the outside of the chamber.
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Hydraulic features
— The fire protection system requires flooding the chamber with water, at a pressure higher than that inside the chamber. The water can be pumped either into the main chamber or into the airlock.
— Storage of gases in B50 cylinders with a capacity of 10 m3 / 200 bars: Air, Oxygen, Heliox or Nitrox.
Tunnel borers
Tunnel borer airlocks
A tunnel borer is a civil engineering machine used to drill tunnels or various galleries by digging through geological layers.
The soil obtained from digging into the ground is deposited between the area to be dug and the shield (generally 2 metres). It is extracted by a continuous flight auger which decompresses it, so that it can be removed from the already dug gallery.
The extracted soil is then replaced with compressed air.
A hyperbaric airlock, fitted to the shied, can be used to compress a team of hyperbaric chamber technicians. When the pressure equalises, these personnel can then enter the excavation area to inspect, change or repair the cutting wheel parts.
During this time interval, the chamber technicians are subjected to breathing compressed air. They must then exit the airlock while observing to decompression schedules.
In manufacturing a tunnel borer airlock, TECH PLUS commissions inspection bodies to check the design briefs and perform a validation of the hydraulic tests, in compliance with European directive 97/23 CE.
The hyperbaric airlocks for tunnel borers comply with the CE 12110 European standard and the EN 13445 international standard.
Electrical cables
Pressure tests, by immersion.
The tests for cables and wiring accessories used for electrical cabling, in accordance with the EN 33-226 standard in Appendix 7, involve setting up a hyperbaric chamber to simulate hydraulic pressure.
Such equipment can be constructed according to specifications for the tests to be conducted by the client.
Main principles that apply to a hyperbaric chamber:
- 1. A pressure-resistant receptacle, built of stainless steel, certified to withstand a given pressure of 2 bars for example, and including the necessary casing passages to enable:
- — Injection and extraction of the test liquid
- — Pressurisation of the chamber to the desired pressure
- — Circulation of the liquid (start/stop)
- — Heating and cooling according to the temperature profiles established for the test
- In addition, the chamber includes a safety valve and is thermally protected.
2. Closure of each end of the tube by doors activated by quick-closing clamps. These doors include a flange on which are placed glands for threading one or more cables, between 1 and 12 for example, depending on their size.
- 3. A main control panel, incorporating all these commands and this information necessary for conducting the tests:
- — Vacuum pump for the cable ends
- — Programmable robot
- — Recording of all these parameters
4. A wheel-mounted assembly for easy closure of the doors. An umbilical cable connects the meter panel and the control panel to the hyperbaric chamber.
An installation of this type can be put into operation with relative ease and speed.
Animals
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) is a medical technology used in human as well as animal (mammalian) medicine, particularly for horses.
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy can serve both as a primary treatment or a complement to conventional therapy, and is effective in treating serious injuries as well as curing many chronic disorders.
The animal is placed in an airtight enclosure (a hyperbaric room or chamber), and subjected to various levels of pressure, up to 15 times the normal pressure.
Increasing the atmospheric pressure in this chamber:
- — increases the solubility of oxygen in blood plasma and other organic fluids (lymph, cerebrospinal fluid, bone marrow), promoting the formation of new cells and in this way improving oxygen availability.
- — stimulates blood vessel generation in bone and soft tissue
- — destroys bacteria
- — improves the body’s ability to fight bacteria
- — accelerates wound healing
- — optimises the immune system
Medical gases
TECH PLUS has a Quality Assurance system, ISO 9001 and EN 46001 certifications as well as medical device CE Medical marking for medical gas systems (European Directive n° 93 / 42).
TECH PLUS has a supervisory staff and a team of experienced, professional technicians at its facilities in various civilian and military hospitals and private clinics. The company carries out power disconnections for separating or connecting primary power distribution networks for critical care departments such as: resuscitation, intensive care and operating theatres and carries out preventive and corrective maintenance.
Specific procedures and instructions for testing and trials during or on completion of system installations, have been established. The equipment installed has CE marking.
Our “Medical Gases” operations can be broken down into several sections:
- — Installation of conduits conveying the gases used in the medical sector, referred to as medical gases (oxygen, medical air, vacuum, nitrous oxide), comprising “medical gas network systems”.
- — Installation of equipment associated with the laying of conduits (wall gas inlets, reducing valves, gas cylinder systems, etc.) or including conduits and medical gas inlets (surgeons’ or anaesthetists’ arms, bed head trunking, etc.)
- — Maintenance of technical equipment and medical gas network systems.
TECH PLUS carries out:
Our trainings
Hyperbaric Training:
Our technical consultants, highly experienced and present on site daily, you will ensure the sustainability of your projects and the successful completion of your missions.
Training Consulting Expertise:
Divers, diving supervisor, security nurse diving, hyperbariste doctor, nurse hyperbaric, hyperbaric technician box operator hyperbaric operation leader, ...
Support / Service:
Board of use of special equipment, upgrading of knowledge and upgrading of staff.
Hyperbaric Advisors:
Setting up of specialists in the fields of diving and hyperbaric allowing your support in the different phases of your projects.
Contact
- Centre d'entreprises le Val d'Aran
- 83150, BANDOL
- France
- Phone : +33 (0)4 94 29 21 21
- Fax : +33 (0)4 94 29 20 21
- E-Mail : info@tech-plus.fr
- Siren : 343 907 952
