Requirements and challenges
- A fan, inverter controlled from ‘system’ demand,
- A dust collector with very high efficiency cartridge filters, with compressed air cleaning • system on-demand.
- A very cost effective (calcium carbonate) powder dosing system absorbing VOC’s from weld fume, ensuring long filter life. This also inerts the flammable weld fume.
- A filter / stack emission monitoring system, ensuring satisfactory return-air quality to the workplace. Again providing energy savings, with no heat loss to the atmosphere
Solutions
The installation of a new energy efficient and cost effective new fume extraction system was completed during (2013) Christmas shutdown, with production ready to run in the 1st week of January 2014.
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Outcome
Following on from this, we have very recently completed some modifications to the system and the customer is looking to upgrade to our patented SmartAIR system next year [link to SmartAIR page]; this maximises energy savings with precise air-flow and inverter control, increases filter life and compressed air savings.