A well-designed chemical fume hood, when properly installed and maintained, offers a substantial degree of protection to the user, provided that it is used correctly and its limitations are understood ...

The world of fume hoods can get complicated with all the options currently available. Join Beth Mankameyer (Sales Engineer) at Labconco as she discusses the basics of fume hood design, what the ...

HEMCO has launched their new UniFlow HDPE Acid Digestion Fume Hood. According to the company, the fume hood has been engineered specifically for corrosive operations involving procedures for element ...

This 4-foot bypass fume hood removes potentially hazardous fumes from the work area, even when the sash is closed. It includes a PVC-framed vertical sash, a polyresin liner, a fluorescent light with ...

General laboratory room ventilation is designed to provide heating and cooling to the laboratory. General room ventilation does not effectively control personnel exposures to hazardous levels of ...

Traditional laboratory chemical (or fume) hoods are designed to capture and control chemical vapors and pull them away from the worker. Although the inward flow of air provides protection to the user, ...

If your chemical fume hood has low or no airflow, broken dome lights, broken sash (or sash is difficult to slide up or down), airflow sensor malfunction, or the hood needs annual re-certification, etc ...

Open fume hoods in labs across campus account for thousands of dollars in wasted energy each year. Luci Keazer, senior lab engineer in Physical Facilities, is working to save those dollars, one fume ...

In a paper recently published in the journal Japan Architectural Review, researchers used computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to evaluate a fume hood’s capture performance and the factors influencing ...