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| New white paper, “Getting a Handle on Green Purchases for Your Lab,” based on presentation given at the NIH Internationa |
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| 2013-02-19 |
New white
paper, “Getting a Handle on Green Purchases for Your Lab,” based on
presentation given at the NIH International Conference on Sustainable
Laboratories
The paper
is based on a presentation given by Caron’s Director of Engineering, Bob
Dotterer, at the NIH’s 2012 International Conference on Sustainable
Laboratories.
The international conference, held in December in
Bethesda, Md., was the first of its kind and addressed energy conservation in
the laboratory. Attendees and presenters came from around the world to share
and learn.
According to the NIH’s conference website, “Laboratories use more
energy and water per square foot than other building types. As our laboratories
age and equipment becomes obsolete, we have the opportunity to replace the
equipment with more energy efficient models and implement energy saving
technologies and strategies to ‘green’ our facilities.”
Dotterer was asked to
speak on the topic of energy efficiency in Environmental Chambers and
Incubators. Dotterer joined Caron in 1999 and has overseen the design and
development of numerous products and projects, including Photostability Chambers,
Condensate Recirculating Systems and Fingerprint Development Chambers. His role
at Caron includes Applications Engineering, where he has worked closely with many
customers by tailoring products to meet their needs.
“It was a pleasure to be
asked to present at this valuable conference and for Caron to be recognized as
a manufacturer of environmentally-friendly products,” Dotterer said. “Over the
past few years, we have redesigned our product line to be more energy
efficient. We consider energy efficiency and sustainability in everything we do
from design to manufacture to serviceability.”
The new
white paper is based on Dotterer’s presentation at the NIH conference on December
13-14, 2012. The paper is set up as a guide to help scientists and technicians
understand the components that contribute to the overall efficiency or
inefficiency of a chamber or incubator.
“We did a significant amount of research on how organizations such as
EnergyStar certify appliances as energy efficient and then incorporated those
approaches in our white paper,” Dotterer said. “The theme of our paper is
simple: ‘Scientists deserve a product that is the most reliable and least
costly to operate.’”
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