Cyclone dust collector how does it work

As air is pulled through the chamber of the dust collector toward the vacuum conveying pump at high speed, it spins in a cyclonic motion. The centrifugal force created by this fast, circular air flow drives the heavier plastic particles, fines, and dust outward toward the wall of the cyclone chamber. They hit the wall, lose velocity, and fall down into a hopper or bin located underneath the cyclone collector.

Learn More. The objective of each design application is essentially the same—to filter, separate, and capture dust and particulate matter and release sanitized air.

Basic components of dust collectors include a blower, dust filter, filter cleaning system, dust receptacle and dust removal system. Five common types of dust collection equipment are fabric filter baghouses, inertial separators like mechanical cyclones , cartridge collectors, wet scrubbers, and electrostatic precipitators.

Dust collection is critical to a number of industrial sectors such as woodworking, agriculture, food processing, pharmaceutical, recycling, cement and rock products, metal fabrication, mining, and chemical processing among many others.

Dust collectors referred to as filter receivers are essential parts of processing systems in many thermal and size reduction applications and as receivers for pneumatic conveying. Shaker Dust Collectors Shaker dust collectors are a shake-cleaning baghouse system.

The system either cleans off-line when the airflow is temporarily halted or sections the baghouse into compartments. A compartmented design offers continuous cleaning of the unit as a whole while allowing for the individual compartments to be taken offline for servicing.

These units are common where it is impractical to supply compressed air for bag cleaning, as in foundries, steel mills, the mining industry, power plants, and smelting industries. The Operation and Advantages of a Cyclone Dust Collector Cyclone dust collectors are designed to efficiently capture the dust and debris created by machining operations, such as planing or jointing.

How it works Cyclone dust collectors are often referred to as two-stage dust collectors because, unlike traditional dust collectors, cyclones have two collection points for dust and debris. Advantages When emptying a collection bag from a standard dust collector, a huge cloud of dust emerges from the collection bag as soon as it is removed. Special Note Most cyclone dust collectors available today for the woodworking market will remove dust particles 2 microns or larger, so there is still a certain amount of very fine airborne particles being released into the shop environment.

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Sign Up. I know some woodworkers who have installed a cyclone product such as a Dust Deputy into their dust collection system, and now only have to empty their actual dust collector once a year.

An additional advantage of cyclones, in particular the Dust Deputy cyclones, is that they allow you to locate your main dust collector machine outside of your workshop. Why is that good? Most dust collectors available today for the woodworking market will remove dust particles 2 microns or larger, so there is still a certain amount of very fine and dangerous airborne particles being released into the workshop environment. Solution - place the dust collector outside so these fine particles are totally removed, leaving only the bulk first stage collector inside, that produces very little fine dust and is conveniently located for emptying.

This ensures a healthy workshop environment that can be further cleaned by using an ambient overhead air cleaner.