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Anyone else feel my pain? How hot (or cold) does your lab get? Am I the only one who has to melt their glacial acetic acid in the winter? Ever find a way to solve the problem without spending a ton of money?
I'm told that the reason for this is that we're legally required to replace the air we lose though the fume hoods with air from outside the building, rather than drawing some of it in from the rest of the building (which is fairly temperate).
I'm also curious about how much heat the GCs put out when they are idle. I'm seeing figures in the 8000 btu/hr range but I think that's when they are cycling from hot to cold. Most of our 5 units are idle most of the time. On the other hand, we have an ICP constantly running, with 6000 btu/hr being vented into the room by its chiller. Whether that's significant or not depends, I guess, on how close to peak heat the other instruments are emitting when the inlets/outlets/pumps/detectors are hot but ovens aren't doing anything.