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February 21, 2023

How to select the right Fume Hood for your laboratory

Not sure which is the right fume hood for you and your laboratory.  The answer depends on the type of chemicals you will be handling.

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Erlab Fume Hoods

The series of Erlab Captair Smart filtration fume hoods are perfect for routine chemical handlings using the same chemicals and low evaporation.

For example: stirring, sampling, transfer, weighing, education, PH testing, HPLC, microwave digestion and COD.

Further applications can be found in the Erlab Application Catalogue for Captair Smart Fume Hoods.

These fume hoods are easy to install anywhere, are flexible and can be moved, offer the user protection at their workstation, and offer no limitation in regard to the number of units placed in the laboratory.

They offer 100% energy savings and release no pollution to the outside environment.

They are not suitable for chemical applications that are being changed often or for large evaporation.

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Erlab Green FumeHoods

Erlab Green Fume Hoods are ideal for a variety of chemical handlings with low evaporation, for example: R&D chemical experiments involving a large variety of chemicals.

These fume hoods are also very easy to install anywhere, are flexible and can be moved, offer the user protection at their workstation, and offer no limitation regarding the number of units placed in the laboratory.

They offer 100% energy savings and release no pollution to the outside environment.

Erlab Green Fume Hoods can handle various chemicals and if paired with a chemical condensing system can be used for large chemical evaporation.

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Ducted Fume Hoods

Ducted fume hoods are suitable for a variety of chemical handlings with high evaporation, such as acid digestion in opened containers, cleaning with solvents in opened containers and burning tests for a few examples.

However, ducted fume hoods are complex to install, requiring ducting, blowers on the roof for exhaust, filtration, and air conditioning for auxiliary air.  They are not flexible, consume a large amount of energy and release pollution into the outside atmosphere.

And you are also limited as to the number of units that can be installed inside the laboratory room.

Solution

The ideal scenario for safety, flexibility and energy savings in your chemistry laboratory would be to include a combination of the 3 different type of fume hoods, according to their intended use.

Remember to use the eValiquest questionnaire to suitably advise and select the right Erlab fume hood for your laboratory and application.

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