"– in this particular case," or ", in which case,"

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Exception applies to experiments involving hot solvent solution – in this particular case, the emergency procedure is to switch off heating (leave cooling equipment on) and leave N2 purging on.

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Exception applies to experiments involving hot solvent solution, in which case, the emergency procedure is to switch off heating (leave cooling equipment on) and leave N2 purging on.

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Both fine but the first one emphasizes that this is an exception and that there are other emergency procedures
 

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Exception applies to experiments involving hot solvent solution. In this particular case, the emergency procedure is to switch off heating (leave cooling equipment on) and leave N2 purging on.

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Exception applies to experiments involving hot solvent solution, in which case, the emergency procedure is to switch off heating (leave cooling equipment on) and leave N2 purging on.

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They could be written better, but there is a difference. The second gives the exception to use in all cases involving hot solvent solutions. The first gives the procedure for this particular hot solvent solution.
 
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