Image: Fume hood bypass

Description: Figure 11. Laboratory bypass hood (note the by-pass chamber above the sash). The bypass hood maintains a constant hood face velocity and incorporates a bypass grille located above the sash opening. When the sash is wide open it blocks the bypass grille, allowing all of the air to flow through the hood opening. As the sash is lowered, it uncovers increasingly greater amounts of the bypass grille, allowing increasing amounts of air to flow through this alternative path. If it is designed and operated properly, the amount of air flowing through the bypass grille is just sufficient to maintain a constant face velocity. Typically, however, this constant velocity can be maintained over a certain part of the sash’s total range.
Title: Fume hood bypass
Credit: General Safe Practices for Working with Engineered Nanomaterials in Research Laboratories (in en-us). U.S. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health pp. 20–21 (May 2012).
Author: U.S. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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License: Public domain
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