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At British Oxygen Corp... Tri-Stack
roof exhaust systems improve safety, cut costs, and
enhance efficiency for laboratory fume hoods
Strobic Air's Tri-Stack laboratory
exhaust fans have made a major contribution towards
health, safety, and cost-effectiveness as part of a
unique "comfort system" at The BOC (British
Oxygen Corp.) Group. BOC is an international organization
with its main research facility located in five buildings
on a 50-acre site at Berkeley Heights, NJ. There are
over 100 individual research laboratories at this facility,
some in 50 year old buildings.
BOC produces liquid nitrogen, oxygen, argon, and other
gases for hospitals, food processing, and fabrication
industries. Its research labs contain many different
kinds of fume hoods to provide safe environments for
conducting experiments. One facility, in particular,
had eight lab rooms located on two levels, with individually
exhausted fume hoods. Concerns of BOC's management facility
included compliance with OSHA laboratory safety standards,
insufficient make-up air and exhaust air capacity, and
the overall indoor air quality.
To
solve these problems, BOC called in an experienced,
well known design and build contracting firm - Monsen
Engineering Company of Fairfield, NJ. Monsen's solution
in this $650,000 project reduced overall exhaust requirements
in both laboratory facilities from 24,000 CFM to 12,000
CFM. Reduced airflow saved BOC $37,500 for the first
modified laboratory hoods installed; of this, $12,375
is projected for electrical cooling
and
energy savings, and $25,125 for heat savings. The entire
project, after the facility planning process was completed,
took only two months to design and about six months
to substantially complete. BOC Site Engineering Manager
said, "Once Monsen came up with the design that
we bought, there were no change orders. The project
is now fully operational and the fume hoods are working
the way they're supposed to."
"At
a conservative 4% fuel escalation per year...over $200,000
will be saved in five years which represents a simple
return on investment of nearly 6% per annum. "
Brian Mornan, Monsen Engineering Company.
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