Airflow in automation: Custom solutions for enhanced biosafety
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9 Mar 2023
Laboratory's using automated robotic equipment still often require biosafety cabinets to ensure the safe handling of hazardous materials. Choosing a biosafety cabinet for automated equipment can be more challenging due to the size of robotic equipment which can cause challenges with airflow.
In this video, Seth De Penning and Drew Pippin from NuAire highlight a biosafety cabinet as an important complement to any automated equipment, detailing how a custom solution can overcome the challenges with airflow that can arise when trying to use a ready-made cabinet.
This video was filmed at SLAS2023.
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