Fume extraction systems are crucial pieces of equipment for any industry that uses metalworking, such as those that perform welding, machining, heat treatment, laser cutting, plasma cutting, EDM, and grinding processes. In this blog post, we go over the 5 key ways to make your fume extraction system work better so that you can know how you can improve the fume extraction system’s performance.
Enhancing your fume extraction system's functionality is crucial for the following reasons:
The following are benefits of performing fume extraction systems in your factory:
The air in your factory will remain clean and healthy.
Protection of Employee Health
Improvement in overall productivity on the shop floor
An improvement in the company's goodwill
Many progressive organizations make large investments in establishing fume extraction systems because of these advantages. However, it is discovered that the manufacturing environment is still contaminated in numerous locations despite the presence of fume extraction equipment.
But—hold on?
If, despite owning a fume extraction system, you do not experience the aforementioned advantages, you should reconsider and look into the following problems to determine the true cause. Filter ON is eager to assist you and offer answers when required. The primary cause is these systems' less-than-ideal performance. The following are some of the most frequent problems encountered:
5 Key Issues That Are Deteriorating the Performance of the Fume Extraction System:
If your mist collector is based on ESP technology, then you need to follow these maintenance tips:
Frequent breakdowns of fume extraction systems are due to overload of filters or overload of electric motors. Overload in filters may take place due to improper cleaning of filters, not maintaining the preventive maintenance schedules, or incorrect filter selection.
Frequent overload of the motor takes place due to improper blower-motor selection, faulty overload setting, or filter choke.
Due to frequent breakdowns in fume extractors, it is not able to extract and filter the fumes consistently, which leads to fumes escaping the shop and resulting in a polluted work environment.
Many times, imported machine tools come fitted with fume extractors and mist collectors. However, the spares of such imported fume extractors are found to be extremely costly with long lead times. Thus, the replacement is delayed by management, causing suboptimal performance or breakdowns of such imported fume extractors.
Certain components of the fume extraction system must be changed periodically. For example, if your system has cartridge filtration, you should replace it when it starts to get dirty and exhibit issues with fume capture.
One of the challenges, especially with imported fume extractors as well as some domestic manufacturers, is that the after-sale service for the equipment is not available, due to which such equipment remains in breakdown or has to be scrapped before the useful life is over.
For the fume extraction system to operate at its peak efficiency, these problems must be resolved.
So how can FilterON help you to solve the problems mentioned above?
For the past 40+ years, Filter ON India has been striving for "mission zero pollution" in the Indian air filtration industry. Filter ON, an industry partner for clean air solutions, has created and implemented 70+ clean air solutions for various applications in the industry, such as welding, brazing, grinding, plasma and laser cutting, and CNC machining.
So Filter ON has the expertise to solve the above issues and provides you the solutions to get your fume extraction problem solved. So some of the solutions we provide here are the top 5 solutions that you can think to implement:
5 Key Ways to Improve Performance of Your Fume Extraction Systems:
Machine Health Check:
By using its experience, Filter ON offers comprehensive machine health checks and can identify filtration-related problems in the work environment. Our sales or service staff will visit your location and will check some key parameters like air flow capacity, rated motor currents, and high voltage measurement (in the case of electrostatic systems) to provide you with comprehensive information about the state of the work area. With this information, proper corrective action can be planned to revive the non-performing systems which ultimately improve the fume extraction system’s performance.
Modifications:
Due to process changes, layout changes, etc., many times it is required to make relevant changes in the fume extractor system and its ducting/hood arrangement to make it effective. FilterON’s experienced design team can help in this task to ensure maximum utilization of your existing systems, which would save significant costs for you.
Renovating
There are some very old fume extractor systems with clients that would need major reconstruction. The FilterON team carefully analyzes and protects the costly spares & components in such systems and renovates the complete system to function as well as a brand new system at much lower cost than buying a new system. With this service, the FilterON team literally gives a new life to an old, outdated system, saving huge resources.
New Installations:
We provide the installation of modern fume extraction systems. Our ISO 9001:2015 and CE-marked full fume extraction solutions can undoubtedly address most of your fume extraction problems to ensure a clean and productive work environment at the lowest total ownership cost.
Imported machine component substitutes:
Filter ON offers alternative, localized spares for imported machines, eliminating worry about spare parts and improving efficiency, ensuring the safety and performance of your fume extraction system.
So by applying these measures we can conclude that we can improve fume extraction system’s performance to an greater extent.
Please contact us if you have any questions about fume extraction performance improvement.
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Filter On India has been working towards “Mission Zero Pollution” for the last 40+ years as a clean air solutions partner for industries. We specialize and have expertise in welding fumes, oil mist, coolant mist, dust collection, soldering, laser marking, laser cutting, plasma cutting, fumes in fastener manufacturing, ball point tip manufacturing, oil quenching, kitchen fumes, etc. Filter On has 70+ clean air solutions, so you can contact us for more information about our solutions. You can reach us through the web or visit us at our corporate office at Pune and our virtual locations at Delhi, Bangalore, Ahmadabad, Hyderabad, or Chennai locations.
