Chemicals

The chemical industry is large and diverse, and while much of it is liquid, dry products and by products are common. Processes such as material handling, screening, mixing, etc frequently produce dust. Donaldson Torit® offers a variety of dust collectors including many construction and filter options to allow a collector selection to fit the diverse chemical industry.

With over 100 years of experience engineering dust collectors and filters, Donaldson Torit is the name you can trust above all others for chemical processing. 

Special Process and Material Property Considerations

• Corrosion
• Humidity
• pH
• Cross Contamination
• Toxicity
• Combustibility and Explosivity

Paint

Many products require a finishing process using wet or dry paint spraying techniques. These include the spraying of solvent or water based paints and lacquers, which generate large volumes of overspray. If not extracted, fine paint particulate will contaminate both the work piece and surrounding area, they will escape into the working environment. 

The combination of solvent vapours and fine particulate are highly flammable/explosive and can be dangerous to human health. 

The handling of the base product requires a high level of cleanliness to guarantee top quality product.

Sieves

In many cases the material to be handled is the production product; therefore care must be taken to achieve adequate balance of dust control without removing excessive (valuable) product.

Where practical, Donaldson advocates “source collection” designs in sieving applications integrating the dust collector near to the point of dust creation. This way less ductwork and fewer discharge systems are needed which leads to lower purchase costs and lower energy consumption.