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What’s the right MERV Rating for my Dust Collector?

What is a MERV Rating? The term MERV is actually an acronym and stands for “Minimum Efficiency Reporting Value”. To put in in simpler terms it’s asking the question “How effective is your filter?”. MERV ratings are assigned numerical values based on the how efficient they are at capturing dust particles. The numerical values are typically rated between 1-16. MERV ...

Apr. 22, 2019

By U.S. Air Filtration Inc.

Aerodyne Presents High-Efficiency Horizontal Dust Collection

CLEVELAND - Aerodyne,a specialist in solving dry material handling problems, has overcome the challenge of designing an effective dust collection system that will fit the limited space available in many plants. Most cyclone dust collectors must be installed outdoors or partially protruding through the roof due to low overhead clearances. The Aerodyne SplitStream™ Dust Collector is a ...

Nov. 11, 2010

By Aerodyne Environmental - A Sister Company of Abanaki Corporation

POLLUTEC 2007

C4 Will present his development and production capacity for Scrubbers, dust collectors and Blowers for third party and OEM production, our ISO 9000, our low cost and high quality are the main reason to select Colombia to produce this equipment for your projects. HALL: 5A STAND R 131 SECTOR: AIR ...

Oct. 16, 2007

By C4 CONTROL de CONTAMINACION Ltda

How to inspect the filter media?

This is the most important item in a dust collector air filter media because it accumulates and supports a dust cake. This dust cake is what provides high filtering deficiencies during operation. Inspect the clean-air side of the dust collector for leaks and the bags for tears. If pressure-drop within a dust collector becomes extremely high relative to historical data, it may be caused by ...

Apr. 14, 2017

By Shijiazhuang Chentai Filter Paper Co., Ltd

Another successful installation of pleated bags at steel plant

One of the biggest manufacturers of railway tracks in Europe had issues with two of their main dust collectors. The problem was that irregular baffling in two dust collectors caused swinging of the 4 meter long filterbags. This resulted in holes in bags and thereby high emissions (higher than the 20mg/m3 set out by public authorities). Solution was to change out the 960 4m long filterbags to ...

Oct. 14, 2015

By Nordic Air Filtration A/S

McCarthy Environmental Ltd Partnership

CODEL are very excited to announce that they have entered into a strategic partnership with McCarthy Environmental Ltd. There is a shared vision and natural synergy between the organisations that brings together wider expertise in different areas of the industrial dust collector market. The partnership brings together CODEL’s design and manufacture of instrumentation for monitoring ...

Jul. 30, 2020

By Codel International Ltd

Aerodyne Steps In Where Traditional Dust Collection Methods Fail

Aerodyne®, a division of Abanaki Corporation, has installed a new dust collection system for a manufacturer of specialty industrial chemical products for a unique project in which multiple attempts at efficient dust collection had previously failed. The chemical plant's proprietary process, which yields a highly valuable powdered nutritional supplement, had several challenges which led plant ...

Jun. 1, 2011

By Aerodyne Environmental - A Sister Company of Abanaki Corporation

Macrotek Wins Back-To-Back Multi-Million Dollar Contracts for One Of World`s Largest Nickel Producers

Global air pollution control provider, Macrotek Inc., has been awarded three consecutive contracts for baghouse dust collection equipment from one of the largest nickel producers in the world. The contracts amount to almost $3 million in total for the design, fabrication, supply, and delivery of baghouse dust collection equipment for a nickel emissions reduction project at a refinery in Sudbury, ...

Mar. 20, 2015

By Macrotek Inc.

GEAPS Canadian Prairies Regional Tradeshow 2014

AirSys had the pleasure to have a booth at this years GEAPS Canadian Prairies Regional Trade Show in Winnipeg on January 9th. The show was a great success with lots of attendees. This year Earnie gave a presentation on on Combustible Dust (past presentations can be found in our Resources section). VAC-U-MAX sent a portable air operated industrial vacuum which became a source of interest thanks ...

Jan. 14, 2014

By AirSys Technologies, Inc.

The EnergyTech 301 – A Total Solution for Dust Monitoring

A low-cost dust monitor using well proven tribo-electric technology delivering accurate and rapid results. A perfect solution for dust monitoring that requires zero critical alignment with no optical surfaces to keep clean. The sensor is easy and quick to install requiring only a simple probe that can be used on a wide range of duct sizes making it suitable for most dust collectors. The many ...

Apr. 28, 2020

By Codel International Ltd

Nederman expands its product range - introduces the most flexible dust collector ever

To ensure a perfect fit to any manufacturing application generating dust, smoke or fumes, Nederman introduces the L-series, a modular and fully configurable dust collector. In manufacturing facilities where dust and smoke is generated during the production process, it’s a primary objective to create a safe working environment with high production efficiency and low emissions to meet ...

Oct. 29, 2015

By Nederman

Participation of Tama at mcTER

mcTER Forest - Conference and Exhibition on Biomasses is an event, this year was its fifth edition, which combines an exhibition with vocational training for professional qualification. Tama participated to the event on the 25th June in Milan and the main products presented in this occasion are the PULCO AIR BAGHOUSE DUST COLLECTOR HT, suitable for the dust aspiration deriving from combustion ...

Jul. 10, 2015

By Tama Aernova Srl

Diversitech Launches the WX Series of Wet Dust Collectors

Does Your Work Application Need a Wet Dust Collector? One of the serious by-products of many industrial work applications is known as combustible dust. If dust is combustible, it greatly increases the risk for explosion or fire, and with it the risk for severe injury or death. In addition to the human toll, combustible dust fires or explosions can also be devastating to a business, they can ...

May 31, 2016

By Diversitech

A Busy Start to the Year for the Kernic Install Crew

It is great to be back in California where Kernic is installing a new dust and particle extraction system designed for a high-volume secure shredding center. Shredded paper and dust particles are collected and conveyed through the fully integrated system. Shredded materials pass through a Kernic Rotary Airlock Separator and discharge into the baling press, while the conveyed air and dust ...

Jan. 29, 2020

By Kernic Systems Inc.

Camfil APC expands testing laboratory

Camfil Air Pollution Control (APC), a manufacturer of dust, mist and fume collection equipment, has doubled the size of its testing laboratory to include a climate-controlled facility with a new full-size dust collection test rig. The new equipment is dedicated to testing in accordance with ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 199-2016, Method of Testing the Performance of Industrial Pulse Cleaned Dust ...

Jan. 17, 2017

By Camfil Ltd

Tama S.p.A: Pulco Air filter HTB

The product The Pulco Air HTB baghouse dust collector is a dry filtration system used to purify the air of suspended solid particles. Its installation allows treatment of a vast range of pollutants and guarantees the quality of the air in the production environment and protection for workers. Filter inlet is composed of a pre-chamber, which recovers the bigger powder particles. Strengths ...

Jul. 10, 2015

By Tama Aernova Srl

More reasons not to store dust in your dust collector hopper

One of the most common baghouse operation practices that we find when we send a dust collector technical advisor out to various facilities is that many plant unwisely use the hopper on their dust collector for storage of the collected dust. Sometimes this is done unwittingly, as maintenance staff simply overlook emptying the hopper on a regular basis. Other times, this is more or less included ...

Feb. 25, 2012

By Golden Specialty, Inc.

New EnergyTech 301 Dust Monitor

CODEL International has just released the EnergyTech 301, a new and advanced tribo-electric dust monitor evolving from tried and tested technology. The new EnergyTech 301 has dual capability as it can be used as an indicative monitor and also be calibrated in mg/m3 as a quantitative monitor. The sensor features an integral control unit with a display and input keys for set up. The quantitative ...

Apr. 18, 2016

By Codel International Ltd

OSHA Fines Plant Rocked By Dust Collection System Fire And Explosion

OSHA fined the New England Wood Pellet, LLC a total of $147,000 over safety violations after a combustible dust fire and explosion rocked the company’s plant in Jaffrey, NH last week. The fines, which are some of the biggest yet this year, and the accompanying report on the incident that criticizes the company for failing to “effectively minimize and address clearly recognized hazards ...

May 14, 2012

By Baghouse.com

New Brochure Provides Method For Saving On Dust Collector Filters

Camfil Air Pollution Control (APC) has published a new brochure that describes how to calculate "Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)" for cartridge dust collector filters. Manufacturing professionals can use the methodology in the brochure to select filters that will save money while improving performance. TCO identifies and calculates the main components of true filter cost: energy, consumables, and ...

Apr. 18, 2013

By Camfil Air Pollution Control (APC)