Powerex Medical Vacuum Systems
Reliable, NFPA 99-Compliant Vacuum Solutions Selected Around Your Facility
Medical vacuum systems must maintain dependable suction across changing demand conditions. A loss of performance can affect patient-care areas, surgical spaces, dental facilities, laboratories, and other critical applications.
Lewis Systems helps healthcare and laboratory facilities select, configure, install, maintain, and upgrade Powerex medical vacuum systems based on system demand, required redundancy, available space, service access, and applicable NFPA 99 requirements.
Whether you are replacing aging equipment, increasing vacuum capacity, or planning a new system, our team helps you evaluate the complete application instead of simply matching the equipment already in place.
Designed to Support Applicable NFPA 99 Requirements
Powerex medical vacuum systems are designed for healthcare applications requiring dependable system capacity, controls, monitoring, and reserve-pump operation.
Lewis Systems works with facility and project teams to help select and implement medical vacuum solutions appropriate for the application.
Powerex Medical Vacuum System Configurations
Powerex medical vacuum systems are available in multiple arrangements to accommodate different equipment-room layouts, capacity requirements, and service needs.
Vertical Tank-Mounted Systems
Vertical tank-mounted packages arrange the system around a vertically oriented receiver. This configuration may help facilities make efficient use of limited mechanical-room floor space.
Horizontal Tank-Mounted Systems
Horizontal tank-mounted packages integrate the pumps and supporting components with a horizontally oriented receiver. This provides a consolidated system arrangement for facilities where a horizontal layout is better suited to the available space.
Modular Skid-Mounted Systems
Modular skid-mounted systems arrange the major components on a common structural base. The open layout can provide direct access to pumps, controls, piping, and other system components during inspection or maintenance.
Complete Medical Vacuum Support from Lewis Systems
Lewis Systems supports your medical vacuum system beyond the initial equipment purchase.
Our capabilities include:
- Existing system evaluations
- Medical vacuum equipment selection
- Capacity and configuration planning
- Equipment-room layout considerations
- System installation
- Startup and testing coordination
- Preventative maintenance
- Vacuum pump troubleshooting and repair
- Replacement parts and components
- Controls and monitoring support
- Capacity expansions and system upgrades
- Long-term equipment replacement planning
Lewis Systems provides medical equipment configuration, installation, testing, maintenance, and service support through locations across North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia.
Frequently Asked Questions About Medical Vacuum Systems
A medical vacuum system creates suction that removes unwanted fluids or gases from hospital, healthcare, dental, and laboratory working areas. The vacuum is generated by a central source system and distributed throughout the facility through dedicated piping.
Depending on the selected model and configuration, a Powerex medical vacuum system may include multiple vacuum pumps, an ASME-rated receiver, a medical control panel, interconnected piping and wiring, vibration-isolation pads, flexible connectors, and intake and exhaust connections.
Powerex packages and operationally tests the applicable system components before shipment.
Powerex identifies its medical vacuum systems as NFPA 99 compliant. Current specifications for selected systems state that the packages comply with NFPA 99 requirements for Risk Category 1 systems.
Medical vacuum system selection should consider expected and peak demand, required reserve capacity, available space, system configuration, controls, electrical requirements, intake and exhaust piping, service access, and future facility growth.
Lewis Systems evaluates the complete application rather than selecting equipment based only on the size of the existing package.
