Captair Smart Instrument Enclosure (IE) - Customized Instruments & Automation Filtering Enclosures

Overview

Lab automation was only accessible to large laboratories that could afford costly total laboratory automation systems. With the advent of the modular automation model, laboratory automation has become accessible to a wider range of laboratories and currently dominates the lab automation market.

Many of those lab automats use chemicals, generally not in large quantities but almost permanently, representing a significant source of pollution of the lab room and the laboratory staff need to be protected.

Canopy hoods, often used to trap the chemical emitted by the automats cannot contain well. Gaseous chemicals are very light molecules and tend to spread very fast, so that a big part of those vapors cannot be trapped in a canopy hood and pollute the room.

The protection rule with gaseous chemicals is to contain the source of the emanations in an enclosure, vent this enclosure and eliminate the chemicals. Installing instruments in ducted fume hoods is an option, but they are complex to install, expensive, not flexible and consume large quantities of aircon air energy. They are designed for the release of large quantities of chemicals which is not the case for lab automation!

Erlab, the world leader of ductless filtration fume hoods since 1968, offer a fully flexible and safe solution with its Filtering Instruments Enclosures, equipped with very efficient filters, capable to trap totally the chemical vapors and powders released by automats placed inside. They are designed according to the dimensions of the automat and installed in a very short period of time anywhere where the automat is located. They just need an electrical socket nearby to be operational and offer a very long filters life, making them very economical to use.

Benefits

• Adapted to the dimensions of the instruments
• Total protection of the laboratory staff
• Installed where instruments are located
• No duct to outside, just need an electrical socket
• Fast installation & easy to move
• Filtration by Erlab the world leader