A specifier’s guide to the six lab fume hood types: bypass, low-flow, ductless, perchloric, radioisotope, walk-in. SEFA 1, ASHRAE 110, ANSI Z9.5.
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A specifier’s guide to the six lab fume hood types: bypass, low-flow, ductless, perchloric, radioisotope, walk-in. SEFA 1, ASHRAE 110, ANSI Z9.5.
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If you manage a laboratory, the single most expensive piece of infrastructure in your building probably isn’t your mass spectrometer, your autoclave, or your walk-in cold room. It’s your fume hoods. A standard 6-foot constant-air-volume (CAV) fume hood costs approximately $8,260 per year in energy to operate — and a facility with twenty hoods is
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In these uncertain times, the importance of scientific research that unearths new, valuable information cannot be overstated. A great deal of this research takes place in laboratories. As such, those facilities should be well-equipped to protect the health of lab technicians and the integrity of their experiments. That’s where fume hoods and biosafety cabinets come
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The American physicist Burton Richter once said, “Modern science is fast-moving, and no laboratory can exist for long with a program based on old facilities. Innovation and renewal are required to keep a laboratory on the frontiers of science.” Time and again, his words have been proven correct. To conduct proper research, your lab should
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Fume hoods are used to eliminate potentially harmful or hazardous fumes and vapors from a laboratory working environment by drawing fumes away from technicians and the lab and either expelling the contaminated air or filtering it before recirculating it into the laboratory. The use of fume hoods can help lab techs to remain unharmed and
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Anyone at home in a laboratory setting is likely familiar with fume hoods. They typically look like a little rectangular compartment with five sides enclosed, with one open side at working height. With a quality fume hood, you can complete whatever task you need to do with whatever chemicals you’re using on the surface inside
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Fume hoods provide localized filtration/ventilation and are designed to remove potentially hazardous or harmful fumes, vapors, and droplets away from lab personnel. Research, manufacturing, and medical labs handle many corrosive chemicals, biological/viral agents, materials that may cause respiratory irritation, and substances with highly flammable fumes. Fume hoods allow researchers and lab personnel to handle these
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In any lab, safety is the number one priority. Labs are designed with risk mitigation in mind, specifically built to facilitate safe working conditions and reduce cross-contamination, exposure to toxic chemicals and fumes, and to prevent other potentially dangerous or harmful circumstances. The best labs utilize a combination of personnel protocol and special equipment to
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