Know The Difference : Fume Hood vs Bio Safety Cabinet
Fume Hoods & BSC are safety devices for the laboratory. Yet, the two are different in their applications.
| FUME HOOD | BIO SAFETY CABINET | |
| What is it used for? | Fume hood removes the contaminants such as gases & vapours from the lab | BSC removes particles such as pathogens from the air stream |
| How do they work? | Fume hood works on diluting the air of contaminants | BSC works on cleaning the air of particulates |
| Whom do they protect? | Fume hoods protect the lab users | BSC protects lab users, samples, and the environment |
| How do they protect? | Fume hoods draw the air and the contaminants from the user zone and exhausts it outside the lab | BSC draws air through a high-efficiency HEPA filter to remove the particulate matter. The air usually circles back into the lab |
| What are the variants available? | Fume hood configuration varies by the application and the experiments conducted.
Common variants are – Benchtop, Distillation, Floor Mounted, Radioisotope, and Perchloric fume hoods |
BSCs are categorised into 3 variants depending on the airflow pattern – Class I, Class II, and Class III.
All three variants have HEPA filters. |
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