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From: MSAYFIE <000007175701fdad-dmarc-request**At_Symbol_Here**LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU>
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] Muffle Furnace Ventilation Requirements
Date: May 13, 2019 17:37 UTC
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ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety
In-Reply-To: [DCHAS-L] Muffle Furnace Ventilation Requirements
You may have HVAC expertise in Maintenance, or Health/Safety dept to consult. Also, my first call would be to OEM application engineers. If it has an asset tag (as it should) your finance dept should have information on that as well. Live and learn.
> On May 11, 2019, at 9:43 AM, Stella Julia Sommer <0000071592c679d2-dmarc-request**At_Symbol_Here**LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
> I recently started my new position as a instructional support technician at my local university.
> I am also supposed to manage the graduate laboratory. This is where I encountered a room with a muffle furnace that just vents into the room. It is set to 550 Deg. Celsius and used to ash plant tissues and food samples.
>
> It is my understanding that those furnaces are supposed to have a separate ventilation or should at least be located inside of a fume hood (particulates, smoke, carbon monoxide ...).
>
> Does anyone have a specific reference that describes the issue (standard, regulation, case study...)?
>
> Thank you very much!
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Stella Sommer
>
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