[labnetwork] Gas cabinet installation by contractors or facility

[Collins, Deon]

In my experience purchasing without a specification is a risky business model. I would caution specking out a cabinet with gas panels and controllers without solid knowledge of its exact use.  HMNTL recently installed several new panels and controllers for our outdated gas cabinets. A tools specification was changed after the panels was ordered and installed. The regulator and ancillary items cost us thousands to replace. Same gas but diluted.

Your local codes may require ventilated storage cabinets for specific gas. If so, those codes would substantiate the need and cost.




Deon D. Collins


Director of Facilities
The Grainger College Of Engineering UIUC
Holonyak Micro & Nanotechnology Lab
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Urbana, IL 61801
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From: labnetwork <labnetwork-bounces at mtl.mit.edu> On Behalf Of Kyle Keenan
Sent: Tuesday, March 4, 2025 3:35 PM
To: Joseph Losby <joseph.losby at ucalgary.ca>
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Subject: Re: [labnetwork] Gas cabinet installation by contractors or facility

Short answer: leave nothing to chance when it comes to safety. You should have them installed & configured by the people who manufacture them. The risk and liability associated with doing otherwise is just not worth it.

Best,
Kyle

On Tue, Mar 4, 2025 at 4:21 PM Joseph Losby <joseph.losby at ucalgary.ca<mailto:joseph.losby at ucalgary.ca>> wrote:
Dear Labnetwork,

We are currently in the design development phase of constructing a cleanroom facility.  The intention is to have about 40-50% of the cleanroom unused on opening day that is reserved for future tools.  Although we have scoped out what future equipment we wish to acquire, they are not finalized.

Our contractors wish to install the gas cabinets (they are included in the project budget) for both the currently scoped and future tools.  Because the cabinet configurations are equipment dependent (most will be for RIE and CVD/dep tools), we are trying to decide if it's worth the contractors installing 'generic' cabinets for future tools that we can configure ourselves (install gas monitoring, safety showers, etc).

Do you feel this is a feasible approach and if so, what would you install? Or, would you rather install the cabinets yourselves entirely?

Cheers,
Joe




Joseph Losby, PhD

Manager, qLab Operations

joseph.losby at ucalgary.ca<mailto:joseph.losby at ucalgary.ca>



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