Does your laboratory exhaust systems have the proper certification?

"For reasons of safety and health, not to mention litigation, consulting and facility engineers long have insisted on independent performance verification for fans and blowers used in general HVAC, as well as more-critical applications. With their unique discharge design, however, high-plume dilution blowers-used to dilute hazardous laboratory exhaust and disperse it high into the atmosphere, away from possible re-entrainment zones-fell outside the scope of Air Movement and Control Association (AMCA) International performance certification. That changed with the recent publication of AMCA Standard 260-05, Laboratory Methods of Testing Induced Flow Fans for Rating."

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