Optimize your production process with Industrial Dust Collection Systems
Dust can clog pipes, leading to inefficient processes, explosion risks, and unhealthy work environments. These issues often cause downtime for maintenance, filter replacement, and cleaning, resulting in repetitive tasks and exposure to harmful particles.
This results in unhappy operators who prefer to work elsewhere. Additionally, the uncertainty of when the next unexpected stop or even explosion might occur is not how you should operate at your site. Hence the need for effective Industrial Dust Control.
Why choose for Dust Collection Systems?
Industrial dust extraction is essential for maintaining a healthy work environment and complying with safety and environmental regulations. Dust particles and contaminants can be harmful to the health of your employees, leading to work-related health problems. It can also negatively affect the efficiency of your production process. With JOA’s tailor-made solutions, we guarantee that you comply with the strictest standards and guidelines.
Applications for Industrial Dust Collector Systems
Good dust extraction can consist of several solutions and systems. Despite the fact that JOA is mainly active in source extraction, we always first look at whether we can eliminate an emission source to prevent emissions instead of extract. Only after source elimination and source extraction do we look at Ventilation.
- Emission source elimination
- Source extraction
- Ventilation
Overview of Dust Collection Systems
Dust Collection Systems are designed to meet the specific needs of different industries. Whether you work in the chemical, consumer goods, food industry or any other sector, dust extraction systems are needed everywhere.
- Stationary dust collectors: Suitable for fixed installations and larger dust volumes and pressure drops and flow rates.
- Cyclone Extraction Systems: Dust Collection or filtration with Cyclones is especially suitable for extracting larger dust particles from the air flow and in combination with dust filtration systems. They are also called Cyclone Dust Collectors.
- Central Vacuum Cleaning Systems: For large-scale applications and multiple workstations. Read more at Central Vacuum Systems.
- Mobile vacuum cleaners: Ideal for flexible applications and easy to move.
Dust Filters
Our dust filters are crucial for the effective capture of dust particles. We offer a wide range of selected or in-house designed filters for dust, including:
- Pocket filters: For capturing fine dust and smoke.
- Cartridge filters: With high filtration efficiency and long service life.
- Pulse Jet Filter: Uses compressed air to clean filter media and remove dust.
- Cartridge filters:
- Baghouse filters: Built for heavy-duty use, these filters manage large dust volumes and ensure reliable, long-term filtration in industrial processes.
Other elements of industrial dust collection consist of several parts. JOA has its own designs and chooses specific suppliers depending on what is needed by the client:
- Fans
- Hoods
- Hoppers
- Screw conveyor systems
Advantages and Disadvantages of Industrial Dust Collection Systems
There are multiple ways to deal with your challenge. JOA’s approach and systems for industrial dedusting leads to the following considerations and advantages and disadvantages.
| Advantages & Considerations | Disadvantages & Considerations |
|---|---|
| Employee health through better air quality | Less suitable for smaller processes and lower volumes in m3/h |
| Better explosion safety due to less dust on the shop floor | Noise pollution will always exist. With the right tuning, the volume can be reduced considerably. |
| Possibilities for heat recovery and heat pump integration | Energy consumption, especially by the fan to keep the airflow going |
| Increased productivity and reduced downtime by preventing dust accumulation | If dust is wet, explosive or sticky, industrial scrubbers (wet gas scrubbers) can also be considered |
| Less Over-Extraction that leads to less waste due to product extraction and less energy savings due to fan tuning. | Maintenance is always necessary. Costs can be saved by means of preventive maintenance and remote monitoring. |
| Reduced operational costs | Higher initial investment |
| Regulatory Compliance (ATEX, MAC values) | Space Requirement / Footprint of the equipment |
Services & Systems for Industrial Dust Collection
At JOA Air Solutions, we offer comprehensive services to ensure that your dust collection system performs at its best. Our proven approach consists of advising, designing, building and implementing tailor-made solutions:
Pre-Engineering Study
Design & Engineering
System Realization
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Start with a Pre-Engineering Study and learn how our proven process can enhance your performance, safety, and compliance. Let us help you design, realize, and maintain the perfect solution tailored to your needs for air filtration, energy recovery and more.
After implementation, we take care of ‘Preventive Maintenance’, ‘Remote Monitoring’ and Service & Spare Parts so that your Dust Collection System continues to perform optimally over time.
Trusted by the world’s largest manufacturers
We are proud to work with a wide range of the largest clients with the most complex processes in various industries. Our industrial dedusting solutions are appreciated worldwide for their quality and reliability. Take a look at our references and find out how we have helped other companies improve their working environment and operations.
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JOA Air Solutions offers advanced dust extraction systems to ensure a clean, safe working environment by removing dust, vapors, and fumes. Our solutions improve air quality and extend equipment life. Interested in our systems? Contact us today!
Our technical experts are ready to help you find the perfect solution. With cutting-edge technology and a customer-centric approach, JOA ensures your production remains safe, clean, and efficient. Choose JOA for reliable, high-quality dust extraction.
Dust Collection FAQ
There are similarities between the two, but the main difference is that a dust collection system uses filters that need to be replaced over time. Another difference is that dedusting systems are mainly used ‘indoors’ production facilities to create healthy working environments and explosion safety.
By using liquids, scrubbers can handle more dangerous, explosive, or toxic contaminants and particles such as combustibles, adhesives, soluble gases, and particulate matter that are too small for filters. Read more about Industrial Scrubbers.
Read more here: Industrial Scrubbers
In some dust collection systems, the air first passes through a pre-separator, such as a cyclone filter. It uses centrifugal forces to separate large particles and heavy substances from the air before they go to the main filters. This way, a cyclone separator reduces the load on the particulate filters and improves the efficiency of the whole system.
Industrial dust filters are crucial components in dust extraction systems, designed to remove dust and other contaminants from the air. Polluted air is sucked in by fans or blowers at an emission point (often machines) and fed through an air inlet to the dust filter. This inlet or extractor hood can be cleverly placed at the source of contamination, such as at machines or workplaces where dust is generated.
The contaminated air then flows through the dust filters, where the actual filtration process takes place. There are different types of dust filters that can be used, depending on the nature of the contamination and the desired purity of the outgoing air.
After the air passes through the filters, the clean air is discharged to the outside or recirculated to the workspace. This can be done through exhaust ducts designed to efficiently distribute the filtered air without causing contamination again.
Some systems are designed to return the filtered air to the workspace. This is more energy-efficient because the air already treated can be reused for ventilation and climate control.
Dust extraction systems remove dust particles from the air, reducing the concentration of combustible dust particles. This helps prevent the formation of an explosive atmosphere. Through the correct design and use of dust extraction, risks can be saved and ATEX zoning can be reduced, which saves a lot of costs for ATEX equipment and insurance.
In the case of combustible dust (KST value and minimum ignition energy), all JOA filters can be equipped according to ATEX regulations.
It has become clear that ultrafine particles have a direct negative effect on the health of operators (e.g. lung and heart failure) Anticipating the exposure limit of 40 μg/m3 of the EU and the EHS standard of <5 mg/m3, for example due to poor extraction and the recirculation of air from dust collection installations, is necessary.
On January 1st, 2024, the BAL (Living Environment Activities Decree) came into force in the Netherlands. The permissible emission limit for dust (category S) has been reduced from 5 mg/m3 to 3 mg/m3. This means that all new systems must comply with this and that there is a transition period of 4 years for existing systems.
Effectively eliminating ultrafine particles (UFPs), with < 0.1 mg/m3 is possible through a deep understanding of particles and proper design.
