Mideco Bat Vent - Combatting Respirable Dust Indoors with Control Room Protection
Dust accumulating in enclosures or site offices can be just as harmful as respirable dust on clothing and outdoors. Our Bat Vent® is a highly effective industrial dust collector, developed to keep the air indoors clean. Dust doesn’t stop at the worksite—it easily enters offices, booths, and control rooms, posing health risks and creating challenges for managers striving to keep personnel safe. Mideco has the solution. Dedicated to protecting workers in dust-heavy industries worldwide, we’ve introduced the Bat Vent®. This revolutionary system purifies and filters air before it enters on-site enclosures. It complements our proven dust solutions, including the Bat Booth® (personnel dedusting) and Burnley® Baffles (bulk handling dust suppression).
The Bat Vent® ensures workplace safety by purifying and filtering air entering offices or enclosures near dust-emitting plants or facilities.
Its advanced filtration process operates in stages:
- Air enters through vents.
- A prefilter captures heavy dust, preventing HEPA filter blockages.
- The HEPA filter removes remaining particles.
- Clean air is pushed into the room, with a pressure monitor and variable speed fan maintaining optimal room pressure. Excess air exits through an outlet.
The Bat Vent® meets NIOSH and Recognised Standard 20 requirements, effectively managing control room dust.
The Bat Vent® protects workers who are not directly exposed to the main source of dust but who work nearby on a regular basis.
In the past few months, Australia has seen cases of silicosis among employees working in admin buildings near quarries. Unfortunately, this happened because they were unaware of the health risks involved.
Many of us spend a large portion of our lives at work. Mideco understands that, whatever industry you work in, health and safety come first for everyone involved. This is why we created the Bat Vent® – alongside our other personnel dedusting solutions – to minimise exposure of workers who might not realise that they are in fact indirectly exposed to dust.