Abstract: A method and apparatus for isolating one or more of the filter compartments in a baghouse installation wherein an inlet damper having a pair of spaced closure members is provided in the inlet duct of each of the compartments. When the inlet damper associated with one of the compartments is closed to isolate the compartment, the closure members seal off the inlet duct to form a chamber within the duct which is vented to the atmosphere through an air damper adapted to admit heated ambient air into the chamber to prevent the flue gases from seeping into the compartment.

Abstract: A cooking unit having a hood equipped with air cleaning structures and blowers for moving air through the cleaning structures. The air cleaning structures include a pre-filter having spaced baffles for collecting air borne greases and particles. A primary fiber filter and secondary charcoal and oxidizer beds are located downstream of the pre-filter. A high efficiency filter is located downstream of the secondary cleaning beds. A damper behind the pre-filter closes in response to an increase in temperature of the air moving through the filters. A separate heating unit is used to reactivate the charcoal.

Abstract: The herein-proposed apparatus for separating carbon black from a carbon-black aerosol stream comprises an apparatus in which a carbon-black aerosol is passed through a granular bed of carbon-black grains in a downflow manner. The carbon-black aerosol is separated into solid carbon-black particles that settle down in the granular bed of the carbon-black grains, and cleaned particulate-free gas delivered to the consumer. Part of said cleaned gas is periodically fed in a countercurrent flow to the stream of carbon-black aerosol to regenerate the granular bed of carbon-black grains. The apparatus for carrying this separation comprises a plurality of compartments, each being subdivided into a first and a second chamber through a partition web. Said partition web is a distribution grate with a screen, whereupon the granular bed of carbon-black grains is arranged, the screen having a mesh opening ranging from about 50 to about 200 microns.

Abstract: An apparatus for separating solid impurities from a fluid, such as air, comprising a housing, a set of filter elements fixed on a set of perforated sleeves, a fan with a driving electric motor, a louvered cyclone positioned around the filter elements, a centrifugal coupling designed to automatically connect the set of perforated sleeves with the shaft of the electric motor, and a receptacle for impurities separated from the air by the apparatus.

Abstract: A self-regenerating diesel engine exhaust particulate filter comprising, in a preferred embodiment, porous ceramic walls defining filter surfaces between adjacent inlet and outlet passages and having electric heating wires in the inlet passages to periodically initiate incineration of collected particulates therein. A movable shield is preferably provided to restrict gas flow through the various passages during their respective periods of incineration so as to provide periodic regeneration with a minimum expenditure of external energy.

Abstract: An absorber tower maintenance isolation system for isolating an absorber tower while maintaining a steam generation plant in operation. An inlet blank-off plate and outlet blank-off plate cooperate with louver dampers in the inlet and outlet ducts to permit shut down or start up of an absorber tower. Closure devices and locking devices act to keep the blank-off plates in position. Equalization devices and duct vent holes allow release to the atmosphere. Further, access is provided to the absorber tower inlet and outlet ducts.

Abstract: A dust separator which has an inlet enclosure having an inlet for dust-laden gas, an outlet enclosure having side walls and connected to a pipe for discharging the dust-freed gas, a separating wall separating the inlet and outlet enclosures, several elongated filtering elements disposed in the inlet enclosure, each element having a longitudinal axis and an opening at the end emerging into the outlet enclosure, and at least one nozzle having an orifice which has an axis for blowing counter flow declogging gas into the outlet enclosure and into the filtering elements. The axis of the nozzle orifice is directed transversely to the axes of the filtering elements and obliquely to the surface of one of the side walls of the outlet enclosure.

Abstract: Apparatus for filtering a gas stream including a common manifold to which, in use, gas to be filtered is passed, a plurality of gas outlets from said manifold, a plurality of particle separators adapted to remove particles from said gas stream prior to exiting from said gas outlets and wherein said particle separators are adapted to deliver particles separated from said gas stream to said manifold, and a particle outlet from said manifold.

Abstract: In a fluid passageway a filter panel is selectively moved out of its normal position extending across the fluid passageway to a dumping position out of the fluid passageway such that particulate matter collected thereon is removed responsive to the movement of a baffle plate from a normal position out of the fluid passageway into a position blocking the fluid passageway. Thereby passage of air through the fluid passageway is prevented during the time the filter panel is out of its normal position. In a preferred embodiment a linking mechanism connects the baffle plate and filter panel together so that movement of the baffle plate to the blocking position causes the filter panel to drop to a dumping position and return of the filter panel to its filter position causes the baffle plate to drop to its normal position. The whole sequence is instituted responsive to buildup of particulate matter on the filter panel.

Abstract: An apparatus for filtering particulate material from air and for removing the particulate material collected upon a filter is disclosed. The apparatus includes a housing having an air inlet and an air outlet. A hollow longitudinally extending filter is secured within the housing. The filter has an outer surface, an open interior, opposite ends, and a longitudinal axis extending between the ends. The filter is formed of a porous media. One end of the filter is removably secured relative to the housing so that the longitudinal axis of the filter extends generally vertically. The other end of the filter is closed. A first chamber is defined around the outer surface of the filter. The chamber is in communication with the air inlet whereby air moving from the inlet to the outlet passes through the filter into the interior thereof and deposits particulate material on the outer surface of the filter. A mechanism is provided for removing the particulate material collected on the outer surface of the filter.

Abstract: A shell and two perforated cylindrical walls are radially spaced about a common vertical axis so as to define three coaxial spaces. A gas to be purified of suspended particles is admitted to the annular first space between the shell and a filter bed of granular material in the second space between the two perforated walls, and a purified gas is withdrawn from the third space. To clean the filter bed, granular material is conveyed from the lowermost portion of the second space through a conduit to a separating device above the topmost portion of the filter bed by a stream of conveying gas, and the gas entrains most of the particles from the granular material while the latter returns to the second space by gravity. The particle-laden conveying gas is introduced tangentially into the top portion of the annular first space where it is mixed with a scavenging gas passed through the filter bed from the third to the first space.

Abstract: An arrangement for the exchange of filter hoses which are arranged in parallel in a filter box which is introduced into a filter chamber where contaminated gas enters through the sides of the filter hoses and purified gas leaves through their open ends. The filter box comprises a frame in which the open ends of the filter hoses are detachably fixed. The filter box is introduceable into a special chamber for the exchange of dirty filter hoses for clean ones by lowering the filter box through an opening in the chamber until the frame rests on supporting elements arranged in the opening. The detachable ends of the filter hoses are accessible from the "pure gas side," and the filter hoses, after being detached from the frame, drop down into the bottom of the exchange chamber for collection of the dirty filter hoses.

Abstract: This invention relates to filtering separators in particular pocket or tube filters, of the kind having a lower inlet for dirty, i.e. dust-or smoke-laden gas containing extremely adherent dust particles which is directed upwards towards the filter elements, the dust which settles when the filter surfaces are cleaned periodically being carried back to the filter surfaces by this dirty gas for agglomeration purposes and a proportion of the agglomerated dust which corresponds to the quantity of dust in the incoming dirty gas and which the said gas is not capable of carrying with it to the filter surface being extracted during the periodic cleaning of the filter elements.

Abstract: Prior to initiating cleaning of the filter assemblies with high pressure air, process gas flow is restricted, as with a flow control valve, to establish a pressure drop across the baghouse in the range 1/4 to 1/2 inches water gauge.

Abstract: A roof drill dust collector is disclosed which comprises a closed housing in which dust-laden air is carried through a first stage dust separator, a second stage dust separator, and a third stage dust filter, before being expelled to open air. The first and second stage separators deposit dust in first and second collection chambers having a common floor, being a hinged door. The housing has means therein for automatically, in sequence, spraying streams of water on the collection chamber walls, opening the hinged door to dump the collected dust, sending a reverse pulse of air through the third stage filter, and closing the hinged door.

Abstract: A plurality of elongated tubular porous bags are arranged in a straight line side by side in a housing through which a dirty stream of gas is passed impinging on the outer surfaces of the bags and thus collecting dirt particles there. In the middle of each bag, extending from end to end thereof, is an impervious linear partition dividing the interior of each bag into two non-communicating half portions. To clean the collected dirt off the outer faces of the bags, means is provided for discharging a cleaning stream of gas into two adjacent selected half portions of two different bags under sufficient pressure to pass outwardly through the half portions and dislodge the dirt collected on the outer faces of those half portions, while the apparatus continues to collect direct particles on the other bags including the other half-portions of the two bags currently being cleaned.

Abstract: In order to clean collected dust particles periodically from a filter, for example in a sampling line (16) for removing waste gases from a steelmaking process for analysis, the filter (17) is first pressurised on both sides and the pressure is then suddenly released on the inlet side of the filter (V8) to shock the deposited particles free of the filter element. A continuous reverse flow through the filter of purging gas may follow to clear dust from the system.

Abstract: Pneumatic compactor for compacting a particulate desiccant in a compressed gas filter unit, the compactor being automatically chargeable with the compressed gas during the unit's filter cycle and manually dischargeable during the unit's drain cycle.

Abstract: In a dust separator arrangement including a battery of filter chambers, the cavity of each filter chamber is divided into an upper compartment and a lower compartment by a layer of filter medium. A tubular member has an upper orifice in the upper compartment and extends downwardly through the layer of filter medium to a lower orifice in an attached valve chamber. Two valve seats on the valve chamber define openings of the valve chamber permanently communicating with a raw gas manifold and a purging gas manifold respectively, while a purified gas manifold permanently communicates with the lower compartment, the manifolds being common to the several filter chambers. A single valve member mounted in each valve chamber may be moved between respective positions of sealing engagement with the two valve seats by an actuator.

Abstract: Apparatus for producing dry compressed air comprises a compressor, a separator to remove condensates, an adsorption filter to filter and dry the air and a storage tank. A valve for controlling reverse flow of air from the storage tank through the filter to the atmosphere to regenerate the adsorption filter when the compressor stops is controlled by a moisture sensitive device so that reverse flow is permitted only if the moisture control of the compressed air is above a predetermined value. The opening of a tap to discharge collected liquid from the separator is controlled by a pneumatically operated valve system so that no electrical control is required.

Abstract: A vertically oriented, sheet metal enclosure includes a frusto-pyramidal lower section forming a hopper for separated particulate matter from an air stream which enters a middle section from a downwardly and inwardly inclined inlet duct fixed to one side of that section at the upper end, causing impingement of the airborne particles against the side of the hopper to effect a swirling action to the air stream. An array of laterally spaced, inclined baffle plates at the upper end of the middle section separates the middle section from an upper section which carries tensioned tubular filter bags. An enclosure cover defines an outlet opening feeding to a cover mounted blower.

Abstract: Apparatus for purifying an air or gas flow of combustible vaporous or gaseous impurities by passing the air or gas through an adsorption filter and charging the filter to a predetermined level. After the filter is so charged, the air or gas flow is interrupted and the filter is desorbed by passing a heated inert gas generated by stoichiometric burning of hydrocarbons through the filter.