CASE STUDY NAME

Dust Collection at Automated Sandblasting

Case Study Facts

Products

KF 1100-5 Filter Units

Process

Automated Sand Blasting

Customer

LEGRAND ELEKTRİK SAN. AŞ. - Turkey

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*KF Series filter units were replaced with AC-Series filter units in 2008. The current equivalent of KF 1100-5 filter unit is AC-123 Filter Unit.

Requirements and Challenges

There were poor dust collectors at the LEGRAND plant, to capture the dust and smoke generated during the sand-blasting of the plastic parts. The speed of the production and sand-blasting was very high.

The performance of the existing filter units were not enough and this caused dust problems inside the production hall. LEGRAND was looking for a solution for this filtration problem.

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Solution

  • First, VANTERM made site-measurements in order to find out the dust emission load in the production hall. After gathering all the required information, VANTERM determined the required capacity of the filter units. There were totally 3 lines of production at the Legrand plant, where the sandblasting was applied. The working period was 3 shifts per day, which means a non-stop working cycle.
  • Since it was very important for LEGRAND to be as flexible as possible for any future lay-out changes, it was decided to install a separate KF 1100-5 filter unit for each line. The filter unit thanks to its compact design were easily installed, in the constricted production hall. The dust problem at LEGRAND plant is solved successfully.