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fume hood labconco
A typical fume hood, with a sash opening six feet wide and two
to three feet high, circulates air through this sash at 100 feet
per minute. The energy to filter, move, cool or heat, and in some
cases scrub (clean) this air is one of the largest loads in most
lab facilities.
The Berkeley Lab design uses small supply fans located at the
top and bottom of the hood's face, to push air into the hood and
into the user's breathing zone, setting up a "divider"
of air at the sash. The air divider helps prevent fumes from reaching
a user standing in front of the hood. Consequently, the exhaust
fan can be operated at a much lower flow. Current research has
reduced the flow to 30 percent of a typical hood installation.
Because less air is flowing through the hood, the building's environmental
conditioning system can be downsized, saving both energy and initial
costs of construction.
The high-performance technology was developed by Helmut Feustel
and Bell. Additional members of the team are Sartor, Chris Buchanan,
Darryl Dickerhoff, William Fisk, and Doug Sullivan.
The demonstration and field-testing of the high-performance fume
was funded by Pacific Gas & Electric. Research and development
of the technology was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy,
the California Energy Commission, and the California Institute
for Energy Efficiency. Labconco Inc. of Kansas City, Missouri,
provided the fume hood, Siemens Building Technology, Buffalo Grove,
Illinois, the control and monitoring system, and Marina Mechanical,
the installation. UCSF provided significant cost-sharing and in-kind
support
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