ENERGY CONSERVATION

Laboratories are seeking to place more operations into their hoods. The problem that occurs is that additional conventional hoods require large volumes of exhaust air and therefore require large volumes of conditioned air. This diagram shows a laboratory with two fume hoods with each supplying only 5' of contained bench workspace.

• Each conventional 6' fume hood requires 1250 Cubic Feet per Minute to operate.
• A Flow Sciences FS2020 Containment Enclosure requires 175 Cubic Feet per Minute and provides four feet of vented bench space.
• The removal of one 6' fume hood (which has only 5' of workspace) will provide enough air volume to install 7 Flow Sciences 4' Enclosures. This would provide 28 feet of bench space under ventilation.
• This also provides the flexibility to move the enclosures from lab to lab to meet changing laboratory missions.