laboratory air Articles
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How To Conserve The Most Energy With Your Fume Hood
Fume hoods are constantly exhausting air away from the laboratory while forcing clean air back in. This continuous cycle can result in a single fume hood consuming as much energy as 3-4 homes in a year. Laboratories with more than one fume hood face even higher energy consumption and operating expenses. To keep expenses low, follow these energy-conserving tips. Turn it off As with many ...
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Airflow Management for Laboratories: Navigating the Currents of Scientific Excellence
In laboratory settings, airflow management plays a vital role in ensuring the safety of personnel, maintaining equipment functionality, and obtaining accurate experimental results. By implementing proper airflow control, labs can effectively reduce contamination risks, safeguarding the purity of sensitive experiments and upholding the integrity of research outcomes. Well-regulated airflow also ...
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Purge gas configurations
Setting up a purge gas source for Perma Pure gas sample dryers. What is a purge gas? A purge gas is a dry, clean gas that is directed through the purge gas pathway of Perma Pure dryers, countercurrent to the flow of the sample gas through the Nafion tubing. It is important that the purge gas is drier than the sample gas: when the partial pressure of water vapor in the purge gas is less than the ...
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Testing for Indoor and Outdoor Airborne Particulates - Case study
Scientists and engineers have found our PC-2H Air Particle Analyzer to be the instrument of choice when it comes to getting the full story on indoor or outdoor airborne particulates. When it comes to getting data on the mass concentration and size distribution of airborne particles inside a building, in an office or at a waiting area in an airport, or in open spaces, our PC-2H 2 lpm flow ...
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Do Fume Hoods Have HEPA Filters?
The primary purpose of a fume hood is to provide protection to lab workers while working with toxic fumes, gases, and chemicals by filtering the air inside the laboratory. But how exactly do fume hoods achieve that? Do fume hoods have HEPA filters? Chemical Fume Hoods There are several different types of fume hoods and the type that will work best for your workspace will depend on several ...
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vBoeing`s research shows that ionizer air cleaning simply doesn`t work
Ionizer technology comes under a range of names: "ionizing air purifiers", "bi-polar ionization", "air ionizers", "ion generators" and "ionic air purifiers". Additionally, there are air purifiers called “electrostatic air purifiers" which work similarly to ionizers. Collectively, they are termed "ionizers". Ionizers make multiple claims about how well they will clean the air in your ...
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Ducted or Ductless Fume Hoods? Is this the real issue?
Most laboratories will need some form of fume cabinet at some point. The type of cabinet is usually the starting point of the process, and the choice of either ductless or ducted cabinet is made. With the ever increasing need to save money and to be environmentally responsible there are other considerations that need to be explored before a decision can be reached. Protection of the User This ...
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Chemical Air Pollution in the Clinical Research Environment
There has been a revolution in awareness of chemical air pollution in research laboratories. I could tell you several 'horror stories' of casual exposure to mercury vapour, benzene and chromic acid (the ultimate glassware cleaning agent) among innocent biomedical PhD students (including myself) in the 1970s. But researchers in hospitals, and other laboratories can never afford to be complacent ...
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