The hot water pump in the bathroom near the freezer bursts… Mobilize the facility team and the military and police to protect it
Cryogenic freezer’s own uninterruptible power supply can maintain power for up to 20 minutes
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Gye Seung-hyun = There was an incident that almost flooded the Pfizer’s novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19) vaccine freezer at the National Medical Center. The medical center secured the vaccine cold chain by mobilizing a’triple’ blackout prevention system and military and police personnel who reside 24 hours in the field.
According to the National Medical Center on the 3rd, an accident occurred at 11:15 pm the previous day when the hot water pump in the bathroom near the Pfizer vaccine freezer in the former US Far East Engineering Corps (FED) site, which was about to be relocated to a new construction, broke out.
(Seoul = Yonhap News) At 11:15 pm on the 2nd, the hot water pump in the bathroom near the Pfizer’s Corona 19 Vaccine Freezer at the National Medical Center exploded and the floor of the freezer compartment is filled with water. 2021.3.3 [독자 제공. 재판매 및 DB 금지]
The bathroom in question was separated by a room from the storage room with three Pfizer vaccine freezers. The hot water pump burst and water leaked through the gap under the bathroom door and flowed to the freezer compartment.
Fortunately, this freezer was installed in a structure that floated higher than the height of the filled water to avoid flooding. Two soldiers and one policeman, resident at the scene 24 hours a day, blocked the pump and pushed water directly before the hospital facility team came. The storage conditions of the Pfizer vaccine are around -75 degrees Celsius and are at the level of cryogenic freezing.
(Seoul = Yonhap News) On the morning of the morning of the 27th of last month, when the Pfizer vaccination for the treatment of Corona 19 patients began, medical staff dispensed Pfizer vaccine into syringes at a sterile workbench (Clean Bench) in the Central Vaccination Center at the National Medical Center in Jung-gu, Seoul I’m doing it. [사진공동취재단] [email protected]
The medical center emphasized that the power outage would not have occurred even if the freezer was submerged in water, as the facility had a “triple” power outage prevention measure prepared by KEPCO and others.
According to the quarantine authorities, if the external main power of the cryogenic freezer is cut off, it can continuously supply power for up to 20 minutes by connecting an uninterruptible power supply (UPS). After that, for 10 minutes, the temperature loss can be compensated by the freezer’s own temperature.
An official at the National Medical Center said, “The toilet hot water pumping equipment was fixed last night. Even if there was a problem with one freezer, there were a total of three, so it would have been done with another freezer.”
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