ARI-R2: Renovation of the Physical Sciences Laboratory Building

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。该提案要求为俄亥俄州鲍灵格林州立大学物理科学实验室大楼（PSLB）的翻新提供部分支持。这是州立鲍灵格林大学化学系和光化学科学中心的主要研究设施，并容纳了几个研究小组，这些研究小组已经从几个机构获得了外部资助。这些小组的研究效率受到PSLB供暖、通风和空调（HVAC）系统不充分和过时的影响。这座建筑现在遭受极端温度和巨大的热波动，特别是在夏天。该建筑还存在来自供风机和排风机的振动问题，这些问题超出了它们原来的使用寿命。这些问题导致大量的仪器停机和不安全的工作条件。将对建筑物的空气处理系统进行重大改造，以增加冷却能力，改善过滤，提供新的供排气阀，将现有风扇改造为变速驱动，并改进电子控制。其他升级将包括更换加热和冷却设备上现有的气动控制装置，以及通风柜更换计划的第一阶段，该计划将用节能可变容积通风柜替换现有的66个通风柜。此次改造有望改善利用发光微孔材料、金属-有机发色团的可编程光物理、低功率光致发光和光化学上转换、单分子蛋白质动力学和界面电子传递动力学、金属-肽纳米组件、实时监测溶液中小多原子分子的光致重排和能量流动。这项改造还将减少校园的能源消耗，这将对研究和教育产生间接的好处。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This proposal requests partial support for the renovation of the Physical Sciences Laboratory Building (PSLB) at Bowling Green State University of Ohio. This is the main research facility of the Department of Chemistry and Center for Photochemical Sciences at Bowling Green State University, and houses several research groups that have received external funding from several agencies. The research productivity of these groups has been affected by an inadequate and antiquated heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system in PSLB. This building now suffers from excessive temperature extremes and large thermal fluctuations, particularly in the summer. The building also has problems with vibration from the supply and exhaust fans, which are beyond their original service life. These problems result in a significant amount of instrument downtime and unsafe working conditions. Significant renovations will be made to the building's air handling systems in order to increase cooling capacity, improve filtration, provide new supply and exhaust air valves, retrofit existing fans to variable speed drive, and improved electronic controls. Other upgrades will include replacing the existing pneumatic controls on the heating and cooling plants, and the first phase of a fume hood replacement program that will replace 66 existing fume hoods with energy efficient variable volume fume hoods. The renovation is expected to improve the conditions for research on materials and devices for fast detection of explosives using luminescent microporous materials, programmable photophysics in metal-organic chromophores, low-power photoluminescence and photochemical upconversion, single-molecule protein dynamics and interfacial electron transfer dynamics, metal-peptide nanoassemblies, and real-time monitoring of photoinduced rearrangement and energy flow in small polyatomic molecules in solution. This renovation will also reduce energy consumption on campus, which will have indirect benefits for research and education.