Archive for Category: Fume Hoods

VAV vs CAV fume hoods: a 2026 specifier guide to face velocity, sash management, energy savings, and the standards your spec needs.

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.

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

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

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

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