Semiconductor fabrication is complicated requiring nasty chemicals for everything from dopants to etchants. Working with such chemicals at home is dangerous and after releasing hydrochloride acid ...

VAV laboratory fume hoods have dominated the laboratory design world for the last 25 years. Conventional wisdom suggests that the specification of the design exhaust flow rate for them is an ...

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 ...

A fume hood is one of the leading safety devices used to protect individuals from exposure to chemicals. This ventilated enclosure is connected to an exhaust fan, which draws air from the room, ...

When you’re a student working with toxic chemicals, jarring alarms are not exactly a desired part of your process. Likewise, when you’re a facilities director, an annual expense of $30,000 to run a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...