Dust Collection Guide
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Dust Collection Articles & facts
Baghouse Dust Collectors; History of Fabric Collectors
"Baghouse Dust Collectors; History of Fabric Collectors" by Gary Berwick, P.Eng., Quality Air Management, April 28, 2009 History The first pulse jet collector was developed by Pulverizing Machinery of Summit New Jersey in the early 1960’s, to collect dust from their...
Welding Laser Plasma Arc Processes Causes Major Problems
Welding Laser Plasma Arc Processes Welding laser plasma arc processes include welding fume capture, plasma and laser cutting tables, thermal spray operations. Each of these present unique and difficult issues that will cause a dust collection system to fail. Welding...
Combustible Dusts
Combustible Dusts; Aluminum, Magnesium, Niobium, Tantalum, Titanium, Zirconium These combustible dusts are highly combustible and present a very significant explosion hazard. There are some stringent fire codes dealing with these dusts which draw their regulations,...
Old Conventional Dust Collector Technology vs. New Technology
OLD Technology Old dust collector technology represents 85-90% of today's dust collection market, and is sold by all the big conventional suppliers. These dust collectors can handle most dust loading and high temperature (up to 400 degrees F.) Circa 1963; compressed...
Dust Collectors from China
Dust collectors, built in China or India, have been coming increasingly on the market in recent years. Some manufacturers, who claim and/or imply to be USA or Canadian built, are actually branding Chinese built dust collectors. At Quality Air Management, we were...
Shot Peener and Blasting Operations
During shot peener and blasting operations, the abrasive generated dusts have some unique properties that need to be addressed to accomplish the following by application of advanced technology dust collector designs: Lowering the dust penetration through the filter...
Blinded Filter Bags
Service report; blinded filter bags The blinded filter bags occurred in an Ultra-Flow 60 bag advanced technology baghouse dust collector, collecting rubber, fiberglass fiber and metal slivers from two hammer mills, in a tire recycling plant. Problem: Dust filter...
Furnace Dust Collector Fire Hazards
Fires in brass furnaces have always been a danger. First let us review the process; as the material is fed into the furnace it has many metals including zinc, tin etc. Some of these actually go to vapor and then condense and turn into solids. These materials will...
Advanced New Technology Dust Collectors
New technology dust collectors have corrected major design flaws of common conventional dust collectors. Design flaw #1 for conventional designs: Conventional designs with cylindrical bags propel the dust from the rows of bags in process of being cleaned toward the...
Cartridge Collector on ARC SPRAY
The first suspicion for pressure drop problems on arc spray is that the spray is coating the cartridge, since the compounds have not lost there coating characteristics before they reach the surface of the media and seal or partially seal the surfaces. This is referred...
Fire & Explosions
Welding Laser Plasma Arc Processes Causes Major Problems
Welding Laser Plasma Arc Processes Welding laser plasma arc processes include welding fume capture, plasma and laser cutting tables, thermal spray operations. Each of these present unique and difficult issues that will cause a dust collection system to fail. Welding...
Furnace Dust Collector Fire Hazards
Fires in brass furnaces have always been a danger. First let us review the process; as the material is fed into the furnace it has many metals including zinc, tin etc. Some of these actually go to vapor and then condense and turn into solids. These materials will...
Spark Arrestor
Welding Laser Plasma Arc Processes Causes Major Problems
Welding Laser Plasma Arc Processes Welding laser plasma arc processes include welding fume capture, plasma and laser cutting tables, thermal spray operations. Each of these present unique and difficult issues that will cause a dust collection system to fail. Welding...
Furnace Dust Collector Fire Hazards
Fires in brass furnaces have always been a danger. First let us review the process; as the material is fed into the furnace it has many metals including zinc, tin etc. Some of these actually go to vapor and then condense and turn into solids. These materials will...