Blog / Bespoke BlueClean® Dust Control with additional HEPA Filtration
5TH APRIL 2024
integratedAIR Filtration were approached by a leading brick manufacturing site in the North West of the UK to design an LEV (Local Exhaust Ventilation) system for the automatic setting machines within their facility.
The building materials manufacturing industry is particularly at risk from harmful dusts like RCS (Respirable Crystalline Silica) and this client has a long-standing history of investing in continuous improvement initiatives in health and safety to ensure the wellbeing of staff across multiple sites.
This client has worked with integratedAIR Filtration over a number of projects to successfully install a range of bespoke LEV systems countering common dust control issues; this ensures the long-term safety of their employees, as well as protecting the longevity of their business.
Bespoke hoods used in this application ensure the seamless extraction of dust produced from the automatic setting machine through high quality heavy duty mild steel painted ductwork which conveys the dust-laden air to the filter unit. Additional hoods were installed at the conveyor transfer point of the facility to extract the dust produced when unusable bricks are collected prior to being recycled.
As advised by our sales department, the client invested in an additional H14 HEPA multi wedge secondary filter to process the exhaust air from our BlueClean® VC PRO 8 before being exhausted back into the facility.
This process ensures the RCS dust is efficiently extracted from source and filtered from the conveying air with high efficiency spun bonded polyester filter media in the form of 8 pleated cartridges. This is then reinforced by HEPA secondary filtration, with the filtered dust from the primary filters being deposited through a mancuna valve into a waste collection self-tipping skip.
This bespoke LEV system will ensure staff at this brick manufacturing facility have minimal exposure to RCS dust and can continue to be productive in a safe environment for many years to come; the integratedAIR Filtration Sales Engineer, said:
“Our client continues to invest in their employees by working with integratedAIR Filtration to install bespoke LEV Systems across multiple aspects of their facility. We are proud to be collaborating with some of the most forward-thinking members of the building material manufacturing industry to safeguard the future of clay brick production in the UK.”
