Beacon Baghouse Cleaning

Cleaning a baghouse is not just about dust, but about danger. What you should know.

Your facility baghouse, often out of sight, works as a dust collector that may use either fabric filter bags or pleated filters within a sheet metal housing. It removes the dust, particulates and many pollutants that are created in the air, during manufacturing. These systems are highly efficient when they are in clean condition and exhaust clean air.

Essentially, a baghouse operates as your air pollution control system in the industrial site. Over the years Beacon Industrial Services has encouraged customers to make it critical that they have regular baghouse changeouts that maintain an industrial quality level of bag cleaning. Baghouses or fabric dust collector filters are devices that function as air pollution control devices designed to use cartridges envelopes, and fabric tubes to capture or separate dust and other particulate matter. It also prevents the loss of energy required by most industrial facilities.

The Power of Clean

Baghouses remove particulates or atmospheric matter which is microscopic in size. It can also be liquid matter suspended in the air. Power plants, steel mills, pharmaceutical producers, food manufacturers, chemical producers and other industrial companies use baghouses to control the emission of air pollutants. Regular baghouse cleaning will also minimize potential explosion hazards from the buildup of combustible dust that collects in your systems. Clean baghouses increase overall system efficiency and reduce mechanical malfunctions, bacterial growth while helping to prevent foreign bacteria and fungi growth clogging your systems.

Unlike electrostatic precipitators where performance may vary significantly depending on process and conditions, functioning baghouses typically have a particulate collection efficiency of 99% or better, even when particle size is very small.

This is why it’s so important to have Beacon Industrial (systems) Services on your regular baghouse cleaning schedule. You want to maintain that 99% efficiency. Because a combination of these dust particulates results in forming a dust cake on the filter, which eventually increases the resistance to gas flow so the filter must be cleaned periodically.

Beacon Industrial Service’s baghouse changeouts are detailed

Two primary processes are used to clean baghouses:

Periodic cleaning
Continuous cleaning
Intermittently cleaned baghouses are made up of many compartments or sections.
Each compartment is periodically closed off from the incoming dirty gas stream.
It’s then cleaned and brought back online.
While the individual compartment is out of place, the gas stream is shifted from the compartment’s area.

Through this approach Beacon can often make shutting down the production process unnecessary during high-quality cleanings in your industrial facility.

Continuously cleaned baghouse compartments are always filtering. Continuously cleaned baghouses are designed to prevent complete shutdown during bag maintenance and failures to the primary system. As you can see, Beacon Industrial Services take great detail and expertise in baghouse changeouts. When it comes to cleaning industrial baghouses we bring uniquely seasoned expertise with a commitment to best practices. What’s more, our team is highly experienced in working in confined spaces.

In comparison to other air pollution control systems, the baghouse is highly versatile and can be engineered for almost any dust-producing application by size and bag type. They are very efficient when properly maintained. And there is the key: “properly maintained,” cleaned on a regular schedule. The typical baghouse requires a great deal of maintenance and a relatively dry environment to operate effectively. Baghouse applications are also limited to certain operating temperatures and conditions.

There’s evidence to guide you

A drop in pressure.

You will notice a drop in pressure through the system. Dust builds up on the filter media, resulting in constricted airflow. This can also occur after pulse-jet cleaning. The key is that the pressure continues to rise because the filters cannot remove the buildup of dust. Most dust collector systems have differential gages with alarms to alert plant personnel that the filter bag changeout is required.

Evidence of wear.

Indications of wear and other damage will be present. These issues compromise the filter’s ability to trap dust and particulates, leading to decreased system performance and could develop into environmental violations.

Inefficient dust collection

An increase in dust emissions or higher concentration of particulates in the air indicates that filters are wearing out. This goes beyond air quality alone, it can fail to meet the required environmental status. Most dust collector systems have differential gages with alarms to alert plant personnel that the filter bag changeout is required.

Powerful workhorses but…

Baghouse dust collectors have a great deal in common, although they do vary depending on the industrial usage intended. However, in general, most baghouse systems have common traits:

A dust container that collects and disposes of accumulated dust
Ductwork designed to transport the dust to the collector
Collection hoods to capture dust and pollutants
Filters that separate and collect dust from the air
Fans that draw in dust-filled air to its collector
Cost-effective when properly designed and kept clean
Versatile and flexible for many applications.
Extremely high efficiency for collection, especially for small particles.

These well-designed features will only serve your industrial plant with true efficiency if they remain clean and free of caked-on buildup of dust and particulates. And that requires regular industrial changeouts with professional cleaning experience.

Go with a baghouse cleaning service team with seasoned experience

You can depend on expert technicians who are trained and up-to-date on proven best practices. Our industrial service work can keep your production compliance from becoming an issue. As industrial cleaning experts, Beacon will save you money and downtime. Fines and lost time are the last thing you need, so have us in to support your maintenance scheduling. Keep in mind your baghouse operations are an actual part of your efficient productivity and profitability, and you should be viewing them in that manner. Our industrial baghouse cleaning service is handled as a priority in each and every step of the process.

Regardless of the type of baghouse system in your industrial facility whether mechanical shaker, reverse jet or reverse air, our Beacon technicians can handle any baghouse maintenance issue whether on schedule or in emergency situations.

Beacon’s dedicated changeout team will approach your baghouse service by observing and reporting overlooked issues that may already be affecting system performance. Our team brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to you.

Your team can’t be tied up for long periods of time attempting to address baghouse changeouts. It makes no sense and causes lost productivity. You and your people do what you do best, and Beacon will handle the industrial cleaning issues efficiently and at less cost. The industry is facing increasing environmental challenges. Keep in mind that we can react quickly to your dust collector or baghouse issues including emergencies.

Beacon Industrial Services offers many ways to serve your baghouse cleaning needs

We can provide service on a monthly, quarterly or annual baghouse cleaning basis. We are on-site for service in your facility whether it’s scheduled maintenance or an emergency issue.

Check our website and call Lela Klajman today for a confidential discussion. You’ll be sure to pick up some useful ideas.

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