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Welding Smoke — Unducted System

A free-hanging unducted system with a fume containment curtain creates a planned air circulation pattern. The ambient air cleaners achieve a substantial contaminant reduction at steady-state levels for a lawn mower manufacturing company.

Welding Smoke — Unducted System

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Mig Welding — Unducted Air Cleaning System

A welding curtain was installed on two sides of the space to contain the welding smoke. Then (4) F70R free hanging air cleaners were suspended from the ceiling to create a back and forth air flow pattern with right angle discharge silencers. The air quality was improved 80% with this system.

Mig Welding — Unducted Air Cleaning System

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Unducted System

Typically reducing airborne contaminants up to 85%, unducted air filtration systems significantly improve the in-plant environment. This system, designed for a complete air change every six minutes, filters out welding smoke generated in the shop of a railroad parts manufacturer.

Unducted System

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Maintenance Welding

Maintenance shop for large power plant used F-70R air cleaners mounted on floor stands to create a cross bay air flow pattern above their welding booths.

Maintenance Welding

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Unducted System for Heavy Welding

Manufacture of boats used (14) 5000 CFM self cleaning cartridge collectors to remove welding smoke. The low maintenance cartridge collectors have suction on the side of the cabinet and discharge exhaust out the front creating a back & forth air flow pattern across the bay. The new cartridge collectors replaced existing media bag units because of cost and time required to maintain the media units.

Unducted System for Heavy Welding

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Aluminum Welding — Downdraft Table

Downdraft table controls welding fumes and smoke from aluminum welding on light fixtures.

Aluminum Welding — Downdraft Table

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Mig Welding

Maysville Community College uses (3) DualDraw model TB-3072F downdraft booths for collecting mig welding fumes. Each booth is 72” wide x 30” deep and 80” high and produces a nominal 3000 CFM with 140-160 fpm downdraft velocity. The booths are equipped with a metal hinged middle divider, locking casters and a weld curtain to enclose the front. Filtration consist of 2” pleat follow by final MERV 16 (95%) 4” mini pleat.

Mig Welding

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Robotic Welding

An AT-6 cartridge collector collects welding fumes from a robotic welding cell at a large automotive manufacturing company.

Robotic Welding

9.

Welding Smoke Extractor Gun

Dust-Pak Fume Extraction System captures smoke from welding with .062 flux core wire.

Welding Smoke Extractor Gun

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Welding Booth

TIG welding on aluminum parts at a light fixture manufacturing company: fumes are contained and collected in the booth, with welding curtain on three sides and translucent curtain on the ceiling. Regain air plenum recirculates clean air and enhances capture velocity.

Welding Booth

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Telescoping Arms

College Lab with 64 telescoping arms, 4” in diameter and telescopes from 4’ to 6”. Ceiling mounted. Used to collect fumes and dust.

Telescoping Arms

12.

Boom Arm

MAXFLO 6" diameter by 14' length extractor arm connected to 15' boom arm mounted on column of building. 2 HP fan mounted on boom arm and exhausted outside. System used to remove welding fumes from large job shop.

Boom Arm

13.

Overhead Collector With Arms

An F120 filtration unit with two flexible extractor arms collects welding fumes from manual MIG welding operations.

Overhead Collector With Arms

14.

Welding Cells

Welding fumes generated from manual and robotic welding cells at an automotive manufacturer are captured by E-Z arms, ducted to the exterior, and collected by an AT central cartridge collector mounted aside.

Welding Cells

15.

Galvanized Welding Fumes

HVAC contractor uses (5) 14’ length x 6.75” diameter EZ Extractor arms mounted to 10’ yellow support posts. Each EZ arm will rotate 320 degrees. The galvanized welding fumes captured by the extractor arm are exhausted outside via a 4500 CFM blower.

Galvanized Welding Fumes

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Welding Smoke Extraction Arm

Fume extraction arm 7’ long x 6.75” diameter attached to a 5' boom arm for collecting welding fumes. Articulating fume extraction arm moves 360 degrees and is mounted at the end of the boom arm, which is attached to a building column. System was installed to collect welding smoke from a mig welding operation at a fork lift attachment manufacturer. Company was out of compliance with OSHA.

Welding Smoke Extraction Arm

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Stainless Steel Welding — Portable

A portable cartridge collector with flexible extractor arm controls stainless steel welding fume.

Stainless Steel Welding — Portable

18.

Plasma Cutting

An E-Z Arm connected to a DC-6 cartridge collector along with a downdraft table controls plasma cutting fumes. The ductwork to the collector connects at a spindle for ease of movement.

Plasma Cutting

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Welding Shop

Three DC-8 dust collectors with 7.5 HP motors capture welding smoke at a vocational school. Each collector has eight cartridges and is ducted with clamp together pipe to four 6" flexible arms. Each arm has a bell shaped hood with an internal rag guard.

Welding Shop

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Laser Cutting

A DC-8 cartridge collector with a steel spark trap collects fumes generated by a Mazak laser cutting operation.

Laser Cutting

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Brazing

A DC-6 cartridge collector collects fumes from an automatic brazing operation.

Brazing

22.

Cutting Slag

A manufacturer of stainless steel utilizes an AT-16 cartridge dust collector (32 cartridges, 6000 cfm, 15 HP motor) to collect smoke generated while cutting slag from their large ladles. The pivotal 6’ diameter bell shaped hood is easily moved out of way when the large ladles were moved in and out by an overhead bridge crane.

Cutting Slag

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Scrap Yard

Scrap yard using cartridge dust collectors ducted to containment booths to collect cutting smoke.

Scrap Yard

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Resistance Welding

A manufacturer of metal stampings for automotive industry used (1) F360 bag filtration system to collect resistance welding fumes and residual oil smoke from their part totes. The F360 used a 10 HP motor and was ducted with clamp together piping to (10) 6" diameter flexible arms with capture hoods. The bag filters in the F360 are lasting 1 year.

Resistance Welding

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Soldering Fumes

Fume Pak with (2) remote mounted 2.5" arms used to collect soldering fumes.

Soldering Fumes

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Welding & Grinding

Manufacturer of automobile brakes uses a 2400 VOM media air cleaner to collect welding smoke and grinding dust from their existing work table. The table had 1 inch square holes in the top so just the sides were enclosed and then a 12" round duct was connected to the 2400 VOM.

Welding & Grinding

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Robotic Welding Cells

Appliance manufacturer uses (8) AT-4 cartridge dust collectors to collect welding smoke from 9 robotic welding cells.

Robotic Welding Cells

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Robotic Cell

Automotive second tier supplier installed an AT-4 cartridge collector to collect smoke from a robotic welding cell.

Robotic Cell

29.

Plasma & Build Up Welding

AT-28 cartridge dust collector collects plasma, build up and manual welding. Special hoods were designed for the build up welding, a plasma containment room is used for the plasma and a boom with capture arm for the manual welding. The AT-28 has a drop out box to collect heavy sparks, 56 filters and 40 HP motor which provides 14000 cfm.

Plasma & Build Up Welding

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E-Z Arms

Flexible E-Z Arm fume extractors are used with booms to collect welding fume and exhaust it outside.

E-Z Arms

31.

Plasma Torch

Adult Training Center using a Model DT-23 downdraft table connected to a remote DCH-2 cartridge dust collector with the patented "Vibra Pulse" Cleaning System to collect welding smoke generated from mig welding and a hand held plasma cutting torch.

Plasma Torch

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Robotic Cell — F240

Effective fume control is achieved by creating a negative airflow in an enclosed robotic welding cell with an F240.

Robotic Cell — F240

33.

Robotic Cell — DC-6

In this robotics operation, fumes and smoke are effectively contained in the cell by creating a slight negative and the contaminants are ducted to an external DC-6 cartridge collector.

Robotic Cell — DC-6

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Robotic Cells — HC-4

These robotic welding cells are equipped with large hoods to capture weld fumes and smoke, which are then ducted to HC-4 collectors.

Robotic Cells — HC-4

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Soldering — F240

An F240 vertical media unit easily collects soldering fumes with 3-inch flex arms.

Soldering — F240

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Soldering — VOM 2400

A VOM 2400 collects soldering fumes from multiple hand soldering stations with flexible arms.

Soldering — VOM 2400

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Glue Pot

A portable Mini-Vac collects fumes from a glue pot.

Glue Pot

38.

Laser Cutting Table

Model AT-24 cartridge collector mounted outside and ducted to Mazak laser cutting table.

Laser Cutting Table

39.

Large Welding Hood

Welding smoke collection hood 72’ x 12’ with (4) 3500 CFM air cleaners. Each unit has three stage filters with (6) spark baffles, (6) 4” pleats and (6) 10-pocket 95% bags filters unit. Filters are changed out from underneath the welding hood.

Large Welding Hood

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EDM Smoke -- Source Capture

Mini Pac portable media air cleaner collecting smoke from a 200 amp EDM.

EDM Smoke -- Source Capture