Air pollutants, generated by any industrial process, can be very harmful to your workers and your productivity. In order to protect both the health of your employees and your business, it’s essential to have an effective extraction and filtration system in place. But sometime it’s not enough. High loads of dangerous airborne particles can, in fact, clog the filter cartridges or filter sleeves of the dust collector, compromising their filtration efficiency. The solution? A Pneumatic Cleaning System integrated in your fume and dust extractor to ensure a safer workplace, high and constant performance and lower costs.
The risks and costs of clogged filter cartridges or filter sleeves
Any industrial application generates various amounts of dust, fumes or dangerous substances that must be captured and filtered in order to maintain a safe and efficient working environment.
Fume extractors and dust collectors are designed to remove any of these suspended particles, capturing them on their filter media, and release back clean air. However, when the quantity of pollutant is high and continuous, the filter media can easily become clogged, compromising the efficiency of the filtration system and causing potential risks for production and the health of operators. As a result, filter cartridges or filter sleeves need to be replaced quite often, significantly increasing both maintenance and industrial waste disposal costs.
Pneumatic Cleaning System: a convenient and effective solution
A cost-effective and practical solution is to invest in a dust collector with an integrated Pneumatic Cleaning System. That is, a compressed air backwash self-cleaning system designed to remove accumulated dust on the filter media. As a result, the efficiency and life of the filter cartridges or filter sleeves increases, leading to fewer replacements, and therefore less impact on the environment and on your pockets.
There are several versions of this pressurized air cleaning tool, but the most efficient one consists of:
- a compressed air storage tank,
- a control panel,
- electro-valves,
- distribution pipes.
How the Pneumatic Cleaning System works
When the cleaning cycle is initiated, the electro-valves release a series of compressed air blasts inside the filter cartridges or filter sleeves, creating a shock wave that reverse the direction of the air flow (from inside to outside) and forces the solid particles off the filter media, into the dust collector’s hopper. This cycle repeats continuously, based on the degree of clogging, without interrupting the machine operations. A control panel reads the pressure difference between the dirty area and the clean area and, based on the data entered by Coral’s technicians, assigns the compressed air jet frequency.
At the end of operations, it’s very important to let the system carry out the post-cleaning process. Coral’s extraction and filtration systems are in fact programmed to continue the automatic cleaning cycle once the dust collector’s fan is turned off. In the absence of vacuum in the filter cartridges or filter sleeves, the cleaning system is even more effective in eliminating pollutant residues from the filter media.
Some of the Coral’s portable units do not feature a control panel, because they are designed for light duty applications that generate fewer pollutant and, therefore, less residue buildup on the filter cartridges. In this case, when the mobile dust collector is turned off, the operator activates the pneumatic cleaning, to ensure optimal performance for the next use.
Benefits of the Pneumatic Cleaning System
Consistent reverse pulse filter cleaning during and after operations has many benefits for your business and also for the planet.
- Increased productivity of the dust collector and reduced wear of the machinery.
- Maximum filter cartridges or filter sleeves life, therefore less replacement and maintenance costs.
- Peak efficiency of the extraction and filtration system during the entire operation, without interruptions.
- Safer and healthier working environment for the operators.
- Less industrial waste that need to be disposed of, therefore less costs and less impact on the environment
Coral solutions with Pneumatic Cleaning System
Coral provides both stationary fume extractors and dust collectors with automatic Pneumatic Cleaning System, designed for heavy-duty applications, and portable units for light-duty application, equipped with manual Pneumatic Cleaning System.
Contact us, discover the best extraction and filtration system for your needs and start enjoy the reverse-pulse self-cleaning system’s benefits right away!