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Avanti Polar Lipids, Inc. Avanti, with a 46-year reputation for purity, is clearly established as the world leader in lipid production. Off erings include: • High Purity Lipid Reagents • API and Contract Manufacturing • Lipid Analysis
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OMICRON SCIENTIFIC is a multi-product specialty company with expertise in lab fi lters and fi ltration accessories. We are an accredited registered body to an ISO 9001: 2008 Quality Systems Standards and all our products meet the CE Certifi cation. We manufacture membrane-based disposable syringe fi lters and all types of syringe fi lters for scientifi c
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Save 50,000 Gallons of Water in Your Lab
Saving Water & Money in Lab Operations
With drought ravaging much of the country, there may be a small device in your lab that is wasting a lot of water: the water-jet vacuum pump. Water-jet devices are still used to provide point-of-use vacuum in many laboratories, though they are prohibited in some states. Because they are inexpensive to buy, many people overlook the resource impact and operating cost of these units.
Water-jet pumps use from 1 to 2 gallons of water per minute to create lab vacuum. At 1.5 gpm for 10 hours a week, 50 weeks a year, that amounts to 45,000 gallons of water per year to produce vacuum at each location. Making matters worse, the water-jet vacuum pump sucks vapors into the water stream, so the wasted water is contaminated with solvents used in your lab work.
Apart from the sheer waste and pollution of the water, it can cost between $200 and $1000 a year for that much water, depending on your local water and sewer rates. And that’s for each water-jet pump. Multiplied across several labs, a science building can waste 1,000,000 gallons of water per year or more – water that could remain in reservoirs for crops or residential supply – and incur tens of thousands of dollars in water charges.
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about $3 per year for electricity.
By using a motor-driven vacuum pump or local vacuum network instead of water-jet pumps, you could save $200 to $1000 a year in water costs per workstation, avoid the waste and pollution of thousands of gallons of water, improve the quality of your lab vacuum, and pay as little as $3 for the power to run the pump for a year. In short, in most locations you can pay for a vacuum pump with water savings in just a few years, and reap the environmental and cost savings for many years thereafter.
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Each water-jet vacuum aspirators wastes and contaminates 50,000 gpy of water when used to create lab vacuum only 10 hours a week. A dry (oil-free) vacuum pump can provide more consistent vacuum and often pay for itself in water supply and treatment savings in 1–3 years, depending on local rates. Literature describes how.
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