Transport and Storage for Plasma Fractionation

Descriptions

NHSBT plans to manufacture, freeze and stockpile plasma for fractionation, plus associated test samples (6 mL), frozen in cardboard boxes of 20, barcode labelled for tracking. Rate of manufacture will be of the order of 4 000 per working day at three sites (Manchester, Colindale, Filton), building to a total of 850 K over 12 months, drawing down thereafter over the following 6 months (estimated). Activity will commence with a comparatively low volume, which will increase to full volume over time: First 3 months: 200/day Second 3 months: 2 000/day Thereafter: 4 000/day We assume once we have a contract with the fractionator, that we will no longer need the storage facility, although its possible the fractionator will. We are currently assuming we will ship from manufacturing to storage on a daily basis, to be determined during detailed design and cost analysis (cost of local storage vs cost of shipping).