With contaminants such as paper dust, aerosols, wood dusts, oil mist, ink dust, metal dusts, and chemical fumes floating around in the air, factory workers face risks they can’t even see.
Eximo general manager Melissa Phelps said health risks aren’t all a factory has to contend with.
“Air contamination within a production process can lead to product recalls, production losses, financial imposts, a fall in consumer confidence, possible regulatory penalties and the potential and far-reaching implications on worker safety,” she said.
Eximo’s Optiflow air-purifying system aims to reduce this harmful aspect of manufacturing.
During peak times, on a typical working day, Optiflow requires 165 kW of operating power; at non-peak times, such as night shifts, operating power requirement drops right down to 65 kW.
Apart from providing users with a very safe way of handling waste clippings and dust, Phelps said that the Eximo Optiflow system also eliminates any unnecessary and potentially dangerous physical work normally used to manually shift waste.
Integrated with an overall pressure-driven extraction system, the Optiflow is built especially for dust extraction and transportation, she continued.
It creates a negative pressure chamber across an entire factory or processing plant to eliminate the total static pressure of the whole system by as much as 50 per cent.
“Thus it provides a positive power consumption advantage as it is proportional to the total static pressure.”
Costs associated with air-quality management have been high, requiring numerous inputs from specialist consultants, maintenance companies and equipment suppliers.
Phelps said these costs can be mitigated and the potential for not only safety disaster but also product contamination can be minimised by the use of efficient, well-designed, and cost-effective ducting.
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