Hoods draw their supply air from the room. So installing panels like this is very likely to affect the face velocities near the edges of the hoods. The only way to really know is to install some and ask a balancing firm to come in and test the hoods per the ASHRAE 110 face velocity protocol before and after they are installed. If you obtain your desired average face velocity in both tests you are fine. (My experience says you have, at best, a 50/50 chance.) You could also do the ASHRAE 110 tracer gas test but that is a lot more expensive and more open to interpretation.

Good morning all,

I have 2 4-ft hoods directly next to each other. My dean would like to get a vertical acrylic divider to put between them. He does not want to damage the hoods in any way so this divider would have to be magnetized or hang from the top somehow. He would like proof that this does not impede the air flow in the room. Does anyone have any ideas of how to go about acquiring said proof? What companies do these type of studies? The folks who install and calibrate the hoods?

And, is anyone else using such a thing? Or are you allowing people to work next to each other (within 4 ft) for a 3-hour lab? Or eliminating every other hood?

Thanks much.

Rose

Rose Rakers, Ph.D.

Director of Chemical Laboratories and Chemical Hygiene Officer

Department of Physical Sciences/College of Science

Birck Hall, Room 118

5700 College Rd.  l  Lisle, IL 60532

Office: (630) 829-6571

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