Laboratory Equipment

Fume cupboards, also known as laboratory chemical hoods, fume hoods, fume cabinets or film filtration cabinets are large pieces of scientific equipment very common in chemical, biological and medical laboratories. They are fume extraction systems designed to protect researchers in from toxic fumes. Lab hoods were invented over one hundred years to protect scientists and lab workers who needed to…

Scrubber fume cupboards absorb the fumes through a unit filled with plastic shapes. These shapes are soaked in water. Substances removed are thus washed into a sump, which is often filled with a neutralizing liquid. The fumes are then evacuated in the usual manner.