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Laminar flow cabinet
| Laminar flow cabinet |
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| Other Names |
Laminar Flow Hood
Laminar flow closet |
| Uses |
Particulate removal |
| Related |
Fume hood |
A Laminar flow cabinet or laminar flow closet is a carefully enclosed bench designed to prevent contamination of semiconductor wafers, biological samples, or any particle sensitive device. Air is drawn through a HEPA filter and blown in a very smooth, laminar flow towards the user. The cabinet is usually made of stainless steel with no gaps or joints where spores might collect.
Such hoods exist in both horizontal and vertical configurations, and there are many different types of cabinets when it comes to Airflow patterns and acceptable uses of these cabinets. NSF49 is the commonly accepted regulatory standard for these cabinets.
Laminar flow cabinets may have a UV-C germicidal lamp to sterilize the shell and contents when not in use. (It is important to switch this light off as it will quickly give any exposed skin sunburn, and may cause cataracts)
See also
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Laboratory Equipment |
| Equipment |
Agar plate • Aspirator • Autoclave • Bunsen burner • Calorimeter • Colony counter • Colorimeter • Laboratory centrifuge • Fume hood • Glove box • Incubator • Homogenizer • Laminar flow cabinet • Magnetic stirrer • Microscope • Microtiter plate • Plate reader • Spectrophotometer • Stir bar • Thermometer • Vortex mixer • Static mixer |
| Glassware |
Beaker • Boiling tube • Büchner funnel • Burette • Cold finger • Condenser • Conical measure • Crucible • Cuvette • Laboratory flasks (Erlenmeyer flask, Round-bottom flask, Florence flask, Volumetric flask, Büchner flask, Retort) • Gas syringe • Graduated cylinder • Glass tube • NMR tube • Pipette • Petri dish • Pycnometer •Schlenk flask • Separating funnel • Soxhlet extractor • Test tube • Thiele tube • Thistle tube • Watch glass |
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This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Laminar_flow_cabinet". A list of authors is available in Wikipedia.
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