A lot of dust is often released during the transport of goods and in particular bulk goods. Under occupational health and safety legislation, companies are obliged to do something about this.
A high concentration of dust particles quickly leads you to take measures to combat the dust. Handing out mouth masks alone is absolutely insufficient. More needs to be done. The government has determined per substance type how high the concentration of dust in a room may be. If the Arbo service determines that a room contains too much dust, you are obliged to take measures.
Expensive installation not immediately necessary
Fortunately, it is not necessary to immediately purchase an expensive extraction system. Sometimes it is quite possible to adjust the product, the business process or the machine, so that less dust is released.
Contaminated airflow
If all that is not enough, then it is time to think about a way to remove the dust. If you choose an installation that extracts the dust through a filter, you will have to deal with a polluted air flow. There are also rules for this. For each type of substance the Dutch Emission Guideline (NER) indicates how high the emissions may be. Very strict rules apply to substances that are harmful to health, such as asbestos and quartz.
Efficient dust control with spot filters
The most obvious way to combat dust is to purchase an installation that extracts dust. This method of dust control not only costs a lot of energy, but also requires additional measures in connection with the polluted air flow. All this is not necessary when you use a spot filter.
Dust development within a machine is no problem at all. Dust only causes nuisance when it is released into the air. A spot filter leaves the dust where it is. One side of the filter is open and acts as a suction opening. This opening is so large that the dust can easily move against the air flow and fall down. The filtered air can be blown out and the dust falls back into the product flow. The spot filter is most efficient when there are as few openings in the machine as possible. Installing a spot filter is an inexpensive way to combat dust. No pipework is required and you do not produce extra waste flows. Once you have noticed the benefits of spot filters, you often won’t want anything else!