Laboratory Energy Savings by Automatic Lighting

By installing automatic lighting to your laboratory building, you will see the difference in energy bills as illustrated below.  This image appears on the Lighting Controls Association web site, courtesy of the Lighting Design Lab.  Their web site is a great resource to learn about automatic switching and dimming controls.  Of note, utility companies offer rebates on automatic lighting controls.  You can learn more at  http://lightingcontrolsassociation.org.

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How to construct a lab scale solvent recycler

Please see this Organic Process Research and Development paper to learn how to construct and operate a distillation unit that is "affordable, accessible and reliable" - for greener solvent usage in common students and research labs.

Thomas Zweckmair et al. Recycling of Analytical Grade Solvents on a Lab Scale with a Purpose-Built Temperature-Controlled Distillation Unit (2017) OPR&D

 

 

Image credit: Org. Process Res. Dev., 2017, 21 (4), pp 578–584

Image credit: Org. Process Res. Dev., 2017, 21 (4), pp 578–584