Due to the massive volumes of blood products that a typical blood centre  collects and supplies on any given day, a thorough understanding of the operational capabilities of the capital equipment is one of the key attributes for effective and efficient inventory management of the blood components.

Contact shock freezers are used for the rapid cooling of plasma in blood centres and it is critical to understand their operational abilities, given that they are one of the major capital equipment used in the blood centres.

This paper estimates the freezing capacity of the Contact Shock Freezer from B Medical Systems against various operational scenarios in a blood centre on a daily basis to help optimize the operational efficiency.