Full-Scale Mock-up Laboratory Facility

Whether you're designing or remodeling a laboratory with fume hoods, or pressurized rooms within a health care, animal research, or clean room facility, there's one vital step that can save you more time, trouble and cost than any other--a full-scale mock-up test of your airflow design. With our fully-equipped laboratory/critical room facility located at Phoenix Controls headquarters in Acton, Massachusetts, you can put your designs to the test.

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	Views of our Mock-up Laboratory
	Mock-up Laboratory Floor Plan
	Laboratory Air Distribution Testing
	Laboratory Sound Testing
	Fume Hood Performance Testing

Please contact your local Phoenix Controls representative, regional sales office or the Phoenix Controls headquarters directly to obtain more information about this one-of-a-kind facility. Phoenix Controls will help you put your designs to the test.

Views of our Mock-up Laboratory

This facility has been used by educational, governmental and industrial organizations to investigate the performance of laboratory design concepts, establish performance requirements, formulate test procedures, and define integration parameters for building control systems. Fume hood effectiveness can be determined by performing face velocity measurements and tracer gas containment tests. In addition, other tests can be conducted to evaluate air diffusion performance, noise levels, temperature stratification, and other key room design issues.

We can install complete airflow control and room pressurization systems, fume hoods, biological safety cabinets, and technical furniture identical or equivalent to your proposed requirements. This facility has dedicated mechanical systems which can supply 7500 cfm of 100% outside air, 20 tons of DX cooling, 0.75 mbh of heating, and 7500 cfm of exhaust. The systems can achieve up to 3.5" of duct static pressure.

Please contact your local Phoenix Controls representative, regional sales office or the Phoenix Controls headquarters directly to obtain more information about this one-of-a-kind facility. Phoenix Controls will help you put your designs to the test.

Mock-up Laboratory Floor Plan

The Test Room is 23 x 35 ft (805 sq ft) with a 14 ft exposed ceiling.

Laboratory Air Distribution Testing

One major area of testing is air diffusion performance. We can perform analytical measurements and visual display of supply air distribution into your modeled laboratory space, showing its interaction with general and fume hood exhaust.

This enables you to determine performance characteristics such as local air temperatures and velocities, thermal stratification, and ADPI. (The Air Diffusion Performance Index provides a single-number rating of installed air diffusion performance for a system of diffusers at a given air delivery rate, temperature, and moisture.)

Testing is conducted in accordance with ANSI/ASHRAE 113, "Method of Testing for Room Air Diffusion."

Owners and designers can use this data to quantify their projected air diffusion performance.

At 0 seconds, supply air enters through two perforated round duct diffusers.

At 30 seconds, supply air uniformly fills the lab space and progresses toward the fume hood sash openings.

At 60 seconds, supply air has completely filled the space and is being exhausted through the fume hoods.

This enables you to experience and evaluate the acoustic characteristics of your design.

Owners and designers can use this data to quantify their projected laboratory acoustic criteria.

Fume Hood Performance Testing

The ability of a laboratory fume hood to provide protection for the worker at the face of the hood can be strongly influenced by:

• The aerodynamic design of the hood
• The ventilation of the laboratory space, including cross drafts, and pressurization
• Work procedures including hood clutter and thermal challenges

Flow visualization, face velocity measurements and tracer gas containment testing on the fume hood in its “as used” and “as installed” condition will enable you to determine containment performance characteristics. Testing is conducted in accordance with ANSI/ASHRAE 110, "Method of Testing Performance of Laboratory Fume Hoods”

Owners and designers can use this data to quantify their projected fume hood selection and operating parameters.