| Real Time particle monitoring requires placing a | | | | separate pump dedicated to particle counting may |
| single handheld laser particle counter or a particle | | | | be used. |
| sensor at a designated location within the | | | | Sequential particle monitoring is also known as a |
| cleanroom. The particle counter sensor counts | | | | Manifold monitoring system or as Pneumatically |
| particles and monitors their events at the | | | | Multiplexed Particle Counting. In this system, a |
| specified location in the cleanroom. The particles | | | | single handheld laser particle counter is used to |
| are monitored in particles per cubic foot or per | | | | monitor multiple location points. To accomplish this, |
| cubic meter. There are no gaps in the particle | | | | a sequential manifold sampler must be added to |
| counting data, making the Real Time system | | | | connect the particle counter to the various |
| highly effective at critical locations to properly | | | | sampling tubes. These individual tubes are then |
| monitor sensitive processes. | | | | sampled in a sequential order. |
| Real Time particle monitoring offers a choice | | | | The particle counter stops counting until the tube |
| between using a remote particle counter or a | | | | change is complete and allows any air from the |
| stand alone handheld laser particle counter with a | | | | previous sample to be purged. The number of |
| built-in vacuum pump. The remote particle counter | | | | monitoring points determines the frequency of |
| provides a process vacuum for sampling or a | | | | each sample. |