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 - TENTATIVE AGENDA -

 Each morning and afternoon session will consist of a series of speakers followed by a 30 minute panel discussion for questions and answers.

  Thursday,
December 13, 2012

Conference Day 1

 


Energy Efficient Equipment-Applications to Determine Energy Usage

  • Calculating Energy Use In Your Facility
  • Renovating Research for Zero Carbon by 2030 
  • Standardized Life Cycle Analysis for Scientific Equipment
  • Updates for the Laboratory Equipment Energy Wiki

Animal Facility Equipment

  • Animal Watering Automation
  • Presentation of a Variety of Innovative Aquatic Systems
  • Ventilated Caging Technologies
  • Vivarium of the Future
  • Green Technologies for Washing and Sterilization Systems
  • Continuous Effluent Decontamination: A sustainable and economical alternative to kill tanks

Friday,
December 14, 2012

  Conference Day 2


Fume Hoods & BSCs

  • Optimizing applications of BSCs 
  • Reduce Energy Consumption and Lowers Operating Costs for BSCs

Temperature Dependent Equipment

  • Energy Star and the Laboratory refrigerator and freezer landscape
  • High Efficiency Ultra Low Freezers
  • New Technologies and Techniques to Reduce the Energy Usage of Ultra-low Freezers
  • Centrifuges
  • Green incubators
  • New Dry Storage Technologies

Hospital and Healthcare Equipment

  • The Hybrid Operating Room
  • Imaging
 Sample Poster Presentations
  • Case Studies on Energy Efficient Laboratory Equipment and Applications
  • Retrofitting Fume Hoods to be more energy efficient
  • Aquatic filtration systems
  • Numerical Methodology for Evaluating UR-UVGI's Disinfection Efficacy
  • Ultra-Low Freezer Advancements and Challenges to Energy
  • Consumption and Reliability
  • Centrifuge Technologies
  • Effluent Decontamination Systems
  • The High Performance Hospital
  • Laboratory Heat Exchangers 
  • Laboratory equipment decontamination systems
  • Equipment Energy Saving Measures through Active Component & Control Design
  • Incubator innovations
  • Glassware Washers for Laboratory Energy Savings