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Has anyone seen, developed, or researched solutions for shielding laboratory-scale vacuum manifolds for pulling high vacuum on glass vessels?  This would be a large (approx. 10-foot wide) glass manifold that would not be located inside of a fume hood.  We want to reduce the hazard of flying glass in the event of a glassware failure and resulting implosion. 

While this particular apparatus is part of a renovation for a new research group, we have some similar equipment on our academic campus that could benefit from the same kind of solution. 

Sliding panels/doors?  Enclosures?  Hanging blast shields?  Anything like this in use?

Kimi Bush

Lab Safety Specialist

Environmental Health and Radiation Safety

University of Pennsylvania

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Philadelphia, PA 19104-6287

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