Tips for Safe Industrial Dust Collector Operation

The smooth processing of any plant depends on industrial dust collectors in order to provide safer place for employees and to fulfil the regulatory compliance. Lets discuss few tips which proves dust collector operation is lying at top safety performance level.

→ A dust collector must be equipped with deflagration protection if it handles a combustible dust. Well a common, economical passive method used is venting.

→ The performance of industrial dust collector can be increase with other safety accessories. A compliant safety platforms and caged ladders can prohibit slips and falls when workers access the collector for service.

→ People equip their industrial dust collectors with safety monitoring filters. It is highly efficient air filters which abide dust from re-entering work space if any leak comes in industrial dust collector’s filtering system.

→ Don’t keep dust in the hoppers. The hoppers can be used to funnel process dust to a storage bin. A dust which stores in a hopper creates a deflagration risk.

→ The design of industrial dust collectors in a way to works in conjunction with filter design. On demand cleaning is recommended for most of the dust types. This will allow operator to set a narrow range of differential pressures to initialise and stop the cartridge cleaning process.

→ The best way to measure the effectiveness of dust collectors emissions is to test them as per most recent published , Method of testing the performance of industrial pulse cleaned dust collectors.

→ There should be a practice of safe filter change-out. Ideally, employees are not allowed to enter the industrial dust collector to change the filters. Usually a simple, fastly-open, heavy -gauge doors gives access to a quick fast cartridge change out system which not at all requires entry into the collector. Thus, you must look for doors which have a exclusive lock-out features for worker safety.

→ A person should know when to change filters. A important and simple requirement is to change filters when pressure lows across the collector is negatively affecting the ability of industrial dust collector operation and allows it to escape into the facility.

→ The cartridges which vertically mounted are reducing fire and deflagration by minimising heavy load of dust on filters due to nature of their orientation.