DCS
BEATS DUST AT NEW E-RECYCLING PLANT
Dust Control Systems
Ltd has recently installed a high efficiency dust extraction
system for a technologically advanced recycling plant. The
new facility has the capacity to recycle 500,000 televisions
and computer monitors a year – equivalent
to 10 million kilos of electronic waste.
The plant, owned by global electronics recycler, Citiraya,
is based at Hirwaun in South Wales and is the first in the
UK to use laser separation technology to recycle glass from
cathode ray tubes (CRTs). Recovered glass from the redundant
tubes is crushed and cleaned ready for use in new CRT products,
thereby recycling over 90% of each TV or monitor.
Robert Noakes, operations manager at the
new facility says: “Televisions
and computer monitors are manually dismantled at 16 workstations
and our priority was to protect our workers from the nuisance
of airborne dust and to ensure a comfortable working environment.”
Citiraya called in DCS Ltd. to fully evaluate
their requirements and come up with an efficient ‘capture-at-source’ solution.
DCS devised a cost-effective proposal, employing custom designed
hoods, which capture and entrain dust that is then transported,
via QF clip-together ducting, to a cartridge filter.
The award winning Downflo® Oval
1 cartridge filter is a compact, continuous-duty, dust and
fume collector. Its modular design has a unique oval cartridge,
allowing more than a 10% increase in airflow, together with
efficient dust collection even with extremely light and fine
particles.
The dust plant is capable of handling air volumes of 27,000
cubic metres per hour and is achieving efficiencies of 99.996
%. Also, thanks to in-line acoustic silencing on the 30 kW
fanset, noise levels have been kept well below the required
85 dB(A).
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