Cases & enclosures


POLYCARBONATE ENCLOSURES PROVIDE DURABILITY AND CUSTOMISATION FOR FUME CUPBOARD CONTROLS


The laboratory is a crucial setting as a controlled environment across industrial and academic research for pharmaceutical development. To ensure the quality of production samples, as well as to protect the safety of personnel operating within these environments, fume cupboards are essential. Durable enclosures are important to protect the control system’s electronics, and Spelsberg UK has been supplying a major manufacturer of airflow monitors and controls with customised enclosures to protect the control systems.


high concentrations of fumes, vapours, or dust. Temperature Electronics’ systems regulate the air quality of lab and industry-scale production processes to ensure safety and production efficacy, and they are operating in thousands of laboratories across the world. Supplying fume cupboard OEMs and laboratory companies around the world, Temperature Electronics Ltd (TEL), headquartered in Glossop, Derbyshire, designs and


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manufactures airflow monitoring and control systems. TEL’s technology is based on a proprietary airflow sensor that measures face or duct velocities. The sensor’s key advantage is that its operation has no inherent drift, meaning that it provides stable, accurate readings across long-term operation, without the need for recalibration. This optimises safety and environmental conditions within a lab,


aboratory development and testing processes involve a range of potentially noxious chemicals and substances, and without a fume cupboard, the atmosphere within the lab can reach


while in conjunction with the controller, minimises energy use - benefits that are also important to large scale industrial plants, where TEL’s control equipment is also installed.


PROTECTING THE PCB TEL applies its technology across a range of solutions, including laboratory room space controllers, that could host up to 64 fume cupboards, through to individual controllers for air ducts and sashes. The wide range of applications for airflow monitoring and control means that the company’s services could be required for complete bespoke installations, through to retrofit of individual controllers.


Crucial to each controller is the


PCB, hosting the intelligence that achieves automated management to maintain the required environmental conditions. To protect the PCB and its power terminals, TEL’s design includes industrial enclosures by Spelsberg. “Although many of the controllers are installed in laboratories, they can also be used in industrial settings. Wherever they’re installed, the enclosures must provide protection


June 2024 Instrumentation Monthly


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