Dust Collection & Air Pollution Control
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Sly Inc. Announces New Rep in Atlanta Territory
August 16, 2012Sly Inc., a 138-year-old manufacturer of dust collectors and other air pollution equipment, announces the opening of a new sales representative office in the Atlanta area. TEC Engineering Associates Inc., of Woodstock, GA, is representing Sly in the entire state of Georgia. TEC Engineering has...
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Modu-Kleen Downdraft Series Dust Collector
August 13, 2012The Modu-Kleen downdraft dust collector contains fugitive dust. The air enters at the top of the dust collector housing and flows downward to the cartridge filters, improving the filtering process and the material-to-air ratio. Air velocities are lower than those with a conventional dust collector...
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MidProp MT Filter Bag Improves Baghouse Performance
August 10, 2012A major North American cement manufacturer was experiencing multiple baghouse issues that included premature bag failures, high operating differential pressures, and high-impact abrasion, and was faced with increased particulate capture requirements. The suggestion was to use Midwesco’s...
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The Importance of Safe Dust Collection
August 9, 2012Safely operating dust collection systems has become increasingly complicated over the last decade. New regulations from OSHA and the NFPA have sought to improve the safety of collecting combustible and explosive dusts. For OSHA, this topic has even been identified as a National Point of Interest....
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EPA MACT Baghouse Compliance Systems
August 9, 2012EPA MACT compliance systems for baghouses and cartridge type dust collectors integrate the company’s baghouse control and sensing hardware known as B-PAC controls with the company’s FilterWare software. The control system optimizes the process while monitoring regulatory parameters. The...
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DustAlarm Particle Emission Monitor
August 8, 2012The DustAlarm particle emission monitor or broken bag monitor is designed to detect filter failures and leaking filters in the exhaust ducts of bag houses, cartridge collectors, cyclones, and other dust collection systems containing filters that may break or wear out with time. The DustAlarm uses...
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Downdraft Table System Collects Contaminants
August 7, 2012The DT-3000V2 downdraft table is designed to provide high-efficiency, source-point collection and filtration of powder, dust, fumes, smoke, and other contaminants produced during industrial processing and production operations. The DT-3000V2 generates 195 FPM of downdraft air velocity across the 19...
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Camfil Farr APC to Build New UK Manufacturing Facility
August 3, 2012Camfil Farr Air Pollution Control (APC), a leading global manufacturer of dust and fume collection equipment, has announced plans to open a 40,000-sq-ft facility in the UK to serve industrial customers throughout the UK and Europe. Work is already underway for the new plant, which is...
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Low-Maintenance Dust Collector Valve
August 3, 2012Aerodyne’s Vacu-Valve is a low-cost, low-maintenance dust collector valve that comes in two designs: the open-construction Platypus and the closed-construction of the Armadillo. A vacuum-operated valve is suitable for continuous discharge applications that have dense, free-flowing material...
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Pleated Filter Cartridge
August 1, 2012The PSI-Pleat filter cartridge solves the inherent problems in traditional fabric filters of cumbersome design, excessive dust cake accumulation, and time-consuming replacement. The wide pleat spacing of the PSI-Pleat provides more filtration surface area than fabric filters, which translates into...
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