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Containerized Hyperbaric Chamber Rental Service

Containerized Hyperbaric Chamber Rental Service

Sep 26, 2023

Containerized Hyperbaric Chamber Rental Service

The benefits of renting containerized hyperbaric chambers: mobility, flexibility, safety, and performance for all your projects!

COMEX offers a containerized hyperbaric chamber rental service among its range of products and services. These equipments offer great versatility, as they can be transported by land, sea, and air. Thanks to our flexible rental solutions, you can benefit from hyperbaric facilities without investing in permanent installations. In addition, we provide you with a medical hotline service available 7 days a week, 24 hours a day, guaranteeing you continuous assistance.

The flexibility of the containerized structure:

Due to their containerized design, our hyperbaric chambers offer great flexibility in use. They can be moved quickly and efficiently over long distances, whether on a truck for land-based projects, or using maritime means for sea projects, or by air for special missions. This mobility allows to meet all your needs, regardless of their location.


It is a standalone equipment, with its own air production as well as its therapeutic fluid gases. This autonomy ensures great independence and additional adaptability during the use of the hyperbaric chamber.


For a perfect handling by your teams, we provide training on the use of the equipment. If necessary, we can also dispatch a qualified operator to assist you. Thus, you will benefit from complete and personalized support for optimal use of our hyperbaric chambers, safely and efficiently.
Whether you need a turnkey solution or prefer to manage the operation yourself, our rental service will be able to offer you a formula adapted to your requirements.

Equipment description

Each chamber, with a diameter of 1600 mm or 1500 mm, is equipped with 700 mm diameter chamber access doors supporting a working pressure of 4 bars. These therapeutic hyperbaric chambers allow for the simultaneous treatment of several patients, offering a capacity to accommodate 4 seated patients or 2 lying patients per unit..

They are delivered with their air production and the distribution of therapeutic fluids, according to the needs. The plurality of these equipments guarantees great flexibility and reliability, thus ensuring optimal patient care.

The chamber is composed of:

  • 1 spacious main chamber equipped with breathing stations
  • 1 transfer airlock equipped with a breathing station
  • 1 medication airlock
  • 2 hyperbaric fire extinguishers
  • 1 control console equipped with communication system, pressure gauges, and gas analyzers

The container features:

  • 1 hard plan for stretcher transport of an injured person
  • Therapeutic fluids distribution
  • Air production including the HP/LP compressor, compressed air storage, and distribution network

Therapeutic gas bottles are provided according to needs

The plurality of the equipment guarantees our clients autonomy and great flexibility, ensuring optimal use.

Varied applications of rented containerized hyperbaric chambers in various environments

Contribution to the Grand Paris tunnel construction site

Our containerized hyperbaric chambers were used in the context of the Grand Paris project, a construction site involving many tunnel boring machines.
In this context, the projectable chambers made it possible to bring an essential safety element to the hyperbaric operations as close as possible to the tunnel excavation sites.

Use in marine environments

These chambers can also be adapted for specific missions in marine environments. They serve as emergency recompression chambers. Simple, safe, and efficient to use, the container and its chamber can be easily embarked and autonomous, guaranteeing divers safety right at their diving site.

Continuity of medical care

In periods of maintenance or temporary interruption of a hospital center’s operation, it is essential to guarantee the continuity of medical care. In this context, our containerized chambers serve as a reliable and efficient solution.
They can be delivered according to needs, either with their air production and the distribution of therapeutic fluids, or connected to the facility’s network. They are equipped to accommodate up to four seated patients or two lying patients and have a range of accessories for various therapeutic needs, thus ensuring appropriate care for various situations.

A 24/7 medical hotline service

COMEX offers its clients, in addition to the rental of its chambers, a hyperbaric medical advisory service available 24/7. Conducted by doctors specialized in hyperbaric medicine, this remote service helps your teams to quickly undertake the right courses of action.
These doctors are perfectly familiar with, and have validated, our chambers. They conduct training on emergency handling in chambers before your missions. Finally, their hotline can be contacted at any time, allowing you to make the right decisions.

Robotic testing in a pool

Robotic testing in a pool

Jul 3, 2023

Robotic testing in a pool

COMEX offers a specialized service in robotic testing in a pool. This type of testing is essential for the development and advancement of underwater technologies. One of our clients, IVM Technologies, shares their experience in this interview and highlights the specificities of their activity. Our test pool significantly contributes to the improvement of robotic testing by ensuring the safety of operations before deployment in open waters.

Robotic testing in a pool : Client testimonial, IVM Technologies

IVM Technologies is a company specialized in providing 3D modeling solutions for underwater infrastructure inspection. Their activity focuses on the development, testing, calibration, and training related to equipment used for underwater inspection. They employ techniques such as photogrammetry and calibration to optimize their inspection processes. As part of their operations, they need to deploy their equipment in water, and this is where COMEX’s test pool comes into play, offering advantages and opportunities to carry out their robotic tests efficiently and securely.

  • Can you explain the specificity of your activity ?

    IVM Technologies offers 3D modeling solutions that optimize the inspection of various underwater infrastructures. Throughout the different phases of development, testing, calibration, and training, we need to deploy our equipment in water.

  • How does our test pool contribute to the advancement of your robotic tests, particularly the main advantages you have observed in using our pool for your tests ?

    COMEX’s test pool has evident advantages. Its surface area, depth, as well as the surrounding facilities like an overhead crane and equipped containers for working in a sheltered environment, facilitate the installation and execution of tests.

    On a more personal note, we also greatly appreciate the setting of this test pool located at the gates of the Calanques National Park.

  • In comparison to other similar facilities, what distinguishes our test pool and makes it particularly suited to your needs, especially what challenges or issues were you facing before using our test pool, and how have they been resolved since you started using it ?

    Performing underwater operations can quickly become complex and costly. The daily cost of a vessel and the difficulty of accessing equipment once at sea make it preferable, whenever possible, to use a test pool.

    COMEX’s test pool helps contain the costs of a testing campaign and provides greater flexibility in handling unforeseen circumstances, not to mention the safety of personnel and equipment at this 24/7 monitored site. This infrastructure remains exceptional and holds a key geographical position within the blue economy landscape in the PACA region. 

  • What advice would you give to other companies or researchers considering using our test pool for their own robotic tests ? 

    One must visit the site to realize the possibilities!

Thank you to IVM Technologies for taking the time to answer our questions.

Main advantages of the COMEX test pool

In conclusion, through this testimonial, the advantages of our test pool for underwater robotic testing are manifold. Its spacious surface area, ideal depth, and well-equipped surrounding facilities have greatly facilitated the installation and execution of tests. Our test pool stands out for its ability to contain costs, provide increased flexibility, and ensure the safety of personnel and equipment. As a company or researcher considering using our tank for your own robotic tests, we strongly encourage you to visit the site yourself to witness the possibilities and advantages it offers. We are confident that our test pool will be a wise choice for successfully conducting your experiments and contributing to the advancement of underwater technologies.

Supply of a Cx1800 Projectable Decompression Chamber to the Armada Argentina (Argentine Navy)

Supply of a Cx1800 Projectable Decompression Chamber to the Armada Argentina (Argentine Navy)

Jun 7, 2021

OPV – Offshore Patrol Vessel

 

COMEX has produced a containerized decompression chamber to the Armada Argentina. It is intended to equip an Offshore Patrol Vessel (OPV) that will be delivered by the French Company NAVAL GROUP

 

The selected hyperbaric chamber is a new generation model. Its design benefits from a unique experience, acquired both in the underwater industrial sector and in the Medical environment (Hospital and University).

For this new generation, the data crossing of the needs expressed both by the end-users and by the operators has allowed us to meet their expectations, to anticipate their demand and to propose a product perfectly adapted to their very needs.

This projectable containerized unit is a complete set ready for use. It bears the CE marking for pressure equipment (European Directive) 2014/68/EU.

 

KERSHIP 

KERSHIP is a joint venture company created in 2013 by PIRIOU and NAVAL GROUP, two experts in engineering and shipbuilding as well as in military systems and services.
This alliance is based on the complementarity of their experience and know-how:
– PIRIOU, 50 years of experience in civilian shipbuilding.
– NAVAL GROUP (formerly DCNS), a world leader in naval defence.
KERSHIP offers ships up to 95 meters long to fulfil all the needs of a State at sea : Navy, Coastguards, Customs, Safety at sea, Scientific Agencies…
Thanks to the expertise of its holding companies, KERSHIP accompanies the administrations and Navy forces throughout the life of their ships, from manufacturing to delivery, but also from after-sales services to maintenance in operational conditions (MCO).

 

COMEX.SA 

A global pioneer in the development of technologies for human and robotic intervention in extreme environments.
COMEX, through its in-house Engineering Team, has been designing, manufacturing and marketing hyperbaric oxygen therapy facilities since 1974. More than 200 facilities have been installed for public or private customers in France and around the world. The Services department is responsible for the maintenance, the periodical control and the modernization of the facilities.

CX1800 hyperbaric chamber

Product of the Cx2 «new generation» range

which integrates the latest technologies in pilotage. The hyperbaric system includes:
    • A decompression chamber, a control system, a compressed air production, storage and distribution Unit, a therapeutic fluids distribution Unit, all enclosed inside a 20 foot equipped cell.
    • The decompression chamber consists in the main chamber which accommodates up to 2 sitting patients and 1 supine patient, and the air entrance lock for 1 seating attendant.
    • Stainless steel fittings and storage with a modern and long-lasting design with surfaces designed for quick and easy daily decontamination,
    • LED based ambient lighting systems,
    • Anti-slip decontaminable, surgery room type floor covering
    • Reliability of industrial quality equipment,
    • The performance and the possibility of evolution of the control system using an industrial architecture with a programmable industrial automat and a supervision system,
    • The ergonomics and ease of use of the HMI with automatic management of healing decompression profiles, recording and real-time display of all parameters, with management of all failsafe systems,
    • Support and assistance in physiology/hyperbaric medicine,
    • The pressure hull is equipped with sound attenuation compression, ventilation and decompression feedthroughs and valves,
    • Large windows in DN 200mm ensure a perfect vision of the interior of the compartments and contribute to the general brightness,
    • In the lower part of the chamber, a technical hatch serves as an interface for the circuits of all medical devices (scope, hyperbaric respirator, syringe pusher, etc.),
    • The chamber is mounted on a support frame evenly distributing the load,
    • The control equipment is centralised on a console panel mounted directly on the chamber wall,
    • This control panel also includes a programmable automat that ensures the display and the traceability of the control parameters. It also increase the safety of the installation by means of the control of all the instrumented data,
    • The «mini-automat» architecture with touch screen meets the requirements of durability and operational safety,
    • The control system includes an industrial programmable automat and a touch screen of at least 10’’ and a supervision system that manages functionalities.

Organization of the project

In its capacity as Project Manager, Comex ensures the relations with the Project Owner and the management of the project as well as the coordination of actions with its subcontractors. The project will be led by a team that will bring its expertise and experience in hyperbaric systems and facilities, both from a technical and a physiological point of view.

The men, their skills, their missions

The project will be led by the following multidisciplinary team:
• A Project Manager:
Its role is to ensure the conduct of the project in compliance with administrative, financial and timely objectives. He participates directly in the technical documentation and in the choice of the design. He coordinates the different activities required to carry out the project according to the stage of progress by identifying possible hard points and their impact on the objectives of the project.
• A Quality Assurance Manager (QAR):
He is in charge of monitoring the quality of the project. It adapts and/or establishes the quality assurance procedures specific to this project and ensures internal audits.
• The Engineering team:
Based at Comex facilities, It is responsible for the studies and the preparation of the documents necessary for the implementation of the project. It works at preparing workshop logistics and ensures the supply and follow-through of the necessary materials for the project.

Training in the use of the hyperbaric chamber

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Hypoxic chamber : Preliminary steps to an actual man dive at the altitude of 6400m above sea level

Hypoxic chamber : Preliminary steps to an actual man dive at the altitude of 6400m above sea level

Jan 23, 2020

Frédéric Swierczynski, diver of the extreme, came to prepare for
a high altitude dive in the lakes of the world’s highest active volcano, el Nevado Ojos del Salado in the Andes. This preparation took place in an altitude simulator, the hypoxic chamber at Comex trial and test Centre in Marseille, France.

Extreme altitude diving at 6,400m

Accompanied by Sébastien Devrient, a mountain guide and Film director, Frédéric Swierczynski prepared for this expedition to the Andes at the border between Argentina and Chile. Their final goal is to carry out a manned dive into the waters of the highest lake in the world at 6,390 m on the mountain side of the volcano Nevado Ojos del Salado.

The adventure started last year when Frédéric performed a first dive in a lake at 5,870 m on the same volcano side. However, early comers snow and ice made it impossible to carry out the dive at 6,390 m.
They return this year in order to fully achieve their goal.

These two expeditions will be the subject of a film «a drop of water on a volcano» scheduled to be released in Switzerland in 2020.

The story of this feature documentary, directed by Sébastien Devrient for Vertiges prod, will not only focus on a sporting feat but, above all, it will emphasize the human adventure. It will also propose a reflection on man’s ability to adapt to his dreams and
ambitions as well as addressing the problem of acclimatizing the human body confronted to a wild and unpredictable nature. 

Preparation in hypoxic chamber

Manip_Plongée_altitude_2019 from Vertiges Prod on Vimeo.

It is at Comex altitude simulator, an hypobaric chamber complex, that Frédéric Swierczynski and Sébastien Devrient came to prepare their expedition, joining equipment tests, physical training and dive procedure rehearsal. The first step was to simulate an altitude of 6,400 m and then a 20-minute immersion in chilled water at 2°C. At this altitude, one has to face the cold temperature conditions and the lack of oxygen, less than twice as rare as at sea level due to the ambient low atmospheric pressure.

They have thus been able to reproduce the different conditions they will face during this adventure, supervised by our technical teams and under the medical supervision of the PHYMAREX Institute.

Frédéric Swierczynski au centre hypobare COMEX
Equipe comex Luc Levaux et Frédéric Poloindre

 

Medical supervision

Throughout the experiment, a medical team from the PHYMAREX Institute, Doctor Mathieu Coulange (MD) and Doctor Jean-Charles Reynier (MD), continuously monitored Frédéric’s vital parameters – body temperature, heart rate, respiratory rate, carbon dioxyde and oxygen saturation…

Because of its immersion at an altitude of 6,400 m, this represents a huge difference in atmospheric pressure compared to a normal dive performed at sea level (1010mb compared to 440mb approx.).

 


This is a very uncommon and exceptional mission, we are taking advantage of this experience to collect as much data as possible. They will be used in publications for the scientific community,’ explains hyperbaric physician Jean-Charles Reynier

Doctor Jean-Charles Reynier (MD)

Hyperbaric Medical Doctor, Phymarex

 

Altitude simulator

The ability to reproduce altitudes up to 40,000 m (131,000 feet) in this 20m² hypoxic chamber complex meets the needs of major european and global manufacturers and service companies in the aeronautics and aerospace sector, such as the validation and certification of equipment, masks, suits, helmets, communications, etc.

as well as manned tests in order to prepare and make fully aware pilots and aircrew to hypoxic risks they may have to face during an actual flight.

The close control and monitoring of extreme pressure and temperature conditions allows our company to be involved in a very wide range of projects.