Wood dust, commonly referred to as "sawdust", is an inevitable by-product in the woodworking industry.  Without effective dust collectors, wood dust not only creates a mess in your shop, it can also cause health problems for you and your employees.  In fact, wood dust is actually classified as a particulate airborne contaminant.

Plain Old Wood Dust is a Serious Health Hazard
This issue is so serious that the Department of Health and Human Services added wood dust to its official list of "known human carcinogens" and OSHA has identified wood dust as a potential health risk.  Wood dust has been associated with a number of health hazards, including allergies, asthma, skin rashes, and eye, nose and throat irritation.   Studies indicate that up to 13% of woodworkers are afflicted with dust-induced asthma.  Emphysema and chronic bronchitis are also caused by breathing in fine wood dust particles.  Even a rare type of nasal cancer has also been linked to wood dust exposure.  It is estimated that one third of all woodworkers experience some form of adverse health effects due to exposure to wood dust.  Wood dust from table saws and other machinery send vast amounts of harmful particles into the air.

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Dust Collection Essential For Safe Cement Production

There is a wide selection of applications for Industrial Dust Collectors. One industrial environment that requires serious dust collection is a cement plant.  Due to the nature of the process, a dust collector is a vital element in any cement production process.

Dust (particulate matter) in cement production is typically caused by 3 occurrences:

1. Physical Attrition
2. Combustion Particle Burnout
3. Nucleation

As particles abrade against each other, physical attrition occurs.  These particles range in size from less than 10 microns to over 1,000 microns.  Combustion particle burnout describes the residues remaining from the pyroprocess.  Typically, these particles are between one to one hundred microns.  When materials that are in vapor form condense, tiny nucleation particles are generated that usually range in size from 0.1 microns – 1.0 microns.

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Do you have a problem with industrial process dust?

There are several types of dust collector technologies known to this broad industry – three of the most popular are:

• Baghouse Dust Collectors
• Cartridge Dust Collectors
• Cyclone Dust Collectors
  

Containment Booths and Self-Contained Modules have been recently added to this post.  We will be discussing only these types for now, as there are many other topics to discuss, but we will touch base on those soon enough.

Baghouse Dust Collectors
Baghouse collectors are used for a variety of collection applications, such as wood dust, metalworking dust, and concrete dust, among others.  The advantage to using a baghouse is that it enables you to collect both large and small dust particles, as well as some of the more abrasive materials such as granite or marble with the use of special filtration media.  Baghouse dust collectors can be fitted with an array of filters to accommodate just about whatever you’re collecting.  Although the filter bags need to be replaced after time, they can be routinely cleaned a number of ways; mechanical shaking, manual shaking, and jet pulse, wherin compressed air is blown into the filter from the inside to blast out the entrained dust particles into a collection bin of some sort.  Baghouse pulse-cleaning can be similar to cartridge cleaning.

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