Every challenge for this project needed to be carefully considered in order to satisfy the customers’ needs. To account for the long stingy material, IAS turned to ACT Dust Collectors who supplied an ACT ARB-260 cyclonic baghouse with 10’ bags. This baghouse combines a cyclone and a baghouse to spin out a majority of the product before it entered the baghouse section, greatly increasing the lifespan of the bags over a standard baghouse. A Honeyville 24 inch airlock was installed below the baghouse, designed to be so large that the material wouldn’t be able to bridge across the airlock inlet. IAS engineered the duct layout to ensure proper convey velocity, with the help of Lapine Metal Products who we used their easy to install CheetahDuct quick clamp ductwork. The system was powered by a Chicago Blower Design 95 blower, engineered to move a massive amount of air at high levels of static pressure (W.G”).

To satisfy the customers’ needs of recycling their collected material, IAS turned to Weima for their engineered recycling solutions. First the material would leave the airlock to be shredded by the Weima shredder then it enters the Weima Briquetter where the material is compacted into “pucks” just slightly larger than a hockey puck. From the Briquetter the material was conveyed into a set of 5 super sacks supplied by the customer located inside. A scale was located under each super sack that measured the weight of the collected pucks, once the threshold was hit that bag would automatically close and the pucks would be conveyed to the next super sack waiting to be filled.

To account for the explosive nature of the collected material, IAS turned to Boss Products for their Vigi-Flap to protect the building from an explosion in the baghouse. To further prevent an explosion from happening, IAS used Flamex’s spark detect and extinguishing system to prevent any sparks from reaching the baghouse.