Application of innovative tubeless filtration technology at the University of Rochester Chemistry Laboratory

The challenge: The University of Rochester is repackaging itself and wants to expand its student base, especially for science and technology. The principal understands that to achieve this goal, the professionalism of this major must be enhanced. Although the previous graduates have a high evaluation of this school, the old and backward experimental facilities are the main reasons that hinder the students. Although the current chemical laboratory has updated some conventional experimental equipment, there is still no improvement in the working environment and space. In this small room, there is a long test bench, surrounded by a monotonous wall. Although this design is very practical, it does not meet the so-called national modern laboratory standards.
Although the budget is sufficient, time and space are limited. The school hopes to turn the new laboratory into a template for future new laboratory construction. Therefore, it is necessary to find an architect with extensive experience in sustainable use design, and let the teachers of the School of Chemistry discuss with the architect the plan for designing a new laboratory. Built in 1960, the Hutchinson Hall built a 2,265-square-foot laboratory, but its ventilation facilities were inadequate. The fume hood is the core facility of the laboratory. The ventilation facilities of the hall cannot meet the exhaust requirements of the traditional ventilating fume hood. This requires the school to find new technologies to solve this problem. This new technology must ensure the safety and stability of personnel, and can be called the "green" technology.
New laboratories need to meet the following four requirements:
Safety work environment sustainability energy saving cost-saving solution:... Bergmann construction company was first investigated the fume hood this emerging green technology, according to Labo ^® Corporation is the technology The inventor, both of which are familiar with each other. The green ventilation technology developed by Elabor is a wide-area, independent filtration system that is not restricted by pipeline engineering. Fume hoods equipped with this filtration technology can be moved or reassembled as needed for laboratory retrofits, and this fume hood maximizes energy savings because the filtration technology has a patented filtration module that can be used anytime, anywhere. A filter that needs to be replaced if the experiment requires a change. ^® green core by Labo fume hood is a breakthrough technology ^TM multidrug-resistant carbon filter, the filter can filter up to 98% of the chemicals, the use of these chemicals in the laboratory are almost all conventional. The remaining 2% of the chemicals are non-toxic or rarely used in the laboratory.

The filter module has two layers of the same filter stacked together with a filter saturation alarm in the middle. When the main filter reaches saturation, the leaked gas molecules are detected and adsorbed by the second layer filter, and the alarm alerts the user to actively send this information to the user's computer or mobile phone. This configuration of fume hood is suitable for single or mixed liquid, solid, alkali and solvent experiments. The optional HEPA filter module can be used to absorb dust. This configuration makes the application and operation of the experiment more flexible and more secure. This fume hood does not require laboratory air supply equipment, which saves energy consumption in air conditioning. The fume hood is equipped with "G-guard software, which can monitor the filtration efficiency in real time and can effectively alarm and remind the relevant situation.
The introduction of the fume hood by the new laboratory saved the university thousands of dollars in air conditioning costs each year and earned the school $36,000 in government subsidies for New York State's Energy Research and Development.
Environmental protection, safety, energy saving, the advantages of these ductless air-conditioning fume hoods is a new trend in the development of professional laboratories in the future.

The picture shows the redesigned and renovated the University of Rochester chemical laboratory, equipped according to Labo ^® green fly butterfly ^TM filtering technology