Abstract: A dust control device for preventing dust and debris from escaping into the atmosphere during the process of loading rail cars with grain or other granular commodities/products. The dust control device generally includes a dust hood that is moveably supported on a pair of stationary elongated support rails via wheels. The support rails are attached to a delivery spout of an elevator and extend over the path of travel of a rail car to be loaded. An elongated pivotable engagement arm connected to the dust hood extends downwardly into the path of the rail car and is engaged as the car passes beneath the dust hood. The dust hood moves with the rail car from a ready position to an operational position in close proximity to the delivery spout to capture the dust and debris generated during the loading process. When the rail car disengages from the engagement arm, the dust hood returns to the ready position automatically and without a power source under the force exerted by a spring-biased positioning assembly.

Abstract: In a porous filter, dust that has been collected from a gas through a filter group installed in a vessel body onto filter surfaces is removed from the filter surfaces by backwashing in which the supply and stoppage of a high-pressure gas ejected toward porous filter elements are repeated by means of a valve operation. Backwash tanks having upstream backwash valves and downstream backwash valves are installed in backwash pipes through which the high-pressure gas is guided from high-pressure-gas supply equipment to backwash nozzles for ejecting the backwash high-pressure gas toward the filter group to form a backwash high-pressure-medium supply line. The outlet pressure of the high-pressure-gas supply equipment is set to “1/critical pressure ratio” or more times a filter inlet gas pressure so that the flow speed of the high-pressure gas ejected from the backwash nozzle is the speed of sound or higher.

Abstract: A cleaning apparatus for a gas filter may include a movable support, a plurality of orifices, and a control system. The orifices may be arranged on the support for selective discharge of cleaning gas toward corresponding ones of filter openings disposed in a segment of a partition in the gas filter when the support is proximate that segment. The orifices may be grouped into at least first and second groups of orifices that may be fluidly connected to first and second valves configured for selective delivery of cleaning gas The control system may be configured to activate the first valve to cause a discharge of cleaning gas from the first group of orifices when the support is proximate a first segment and to activate the second valve to cause a discharge of cleaning gas from the second group of orifices when the support is proximate a second segment.

Abstract: A bag house air filtration system with minimal recirculation uses new inlet airflow patterns and cleaning processes. Inlet air enters the bag house. An input plenum changes the velocity profile. Dirty inlet air is split into two plenums, and then passed through guide vanes. A clean air plenum contains a series of individual compartments with a pre-set number of filter bags that are effectively cleaned during a single cleaning cycle. Each individual compartment has a door or louver mounted above the bag openings that is opened and closed during the cleaning cycle. An automatic control system continuously senses bag house pressure drop and activates the cycle when needed. The doors open and close in a pre-set pattern to drop the dust cakes from the bags and restore air flow to normal pressures. Closing a door mounted above the bags creates a reversal of pressure that removes the dust cake.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a rotary pulse type filter dust collector, which can maintain excellent de-dusting efficiency of a low pressure pulse type filter dust collector, reduce the number of required components in order to reduce manufacturing costs, maintenance fees, and lower defect factors to provide higher reliability. The dust collector includes: a dust collector body, a number of filter bags, a moving compressed air tank, nozzles, diaphragm valves, mechanical 3-way valves, protrusions, a reduction motor and a mechanical device for driving the compressed air tank, and an inverter controller.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for cleaning filters for dust-laden waste gases, including several filter elements (2) which are arranged vertically in a filter housing (1) and which have an upper open end (16) and a lower closed end (15) with at least one feed line (9) for the dust-laden waste gases and at least one discharge line (11) for the cleaned waste gases, in addition to a device for injecting surges of compressed air into the open end (16) of the filter elements (2). In order to reduce pressure fluctuations in the filter and to provide efficient cleaning with pulsations of compressed air in the low pressure range i.e. from approximately 0.8 to 3 bars, the filter is divided into several filter modules (1) respectively including at least one filter element (2). At least two filter modules (1) are arranged in a filter housing (10) or a filter chamber.

Abstract: A valve and trigger cyclically connect a vacuum and a blower to a filter. The valve box has three openings, the first connectable to the vacuum, the second connectable to the blower and the third connectable to the filter. A gate inside the box, biased by the blower and the vacuum toward closing the first opening, is held against the bias by a trigger outside the box to close the second opening. The external trigger intervally operates to release the interior gate to close the first opening and open the second opening. The blower operates only if the trigger is operating. The gate is released once for approximately 1/12 of a cycle interval during each trigger operating interval. A plurality of valves can be combined in a system with one trigger for cyclically sequentially connecting a plurality of filters to the vacuum and the blower.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for removing particulate from a particulate-laden gas stream are disclosed. The apparatus and method include a reverse-flow process for cleaning filter bags with a cleaning gas stream. The process includes: flowing a particulate-laden gas stream to one side of the filter bags; stopping the particulate-laden gas stream to at least one filter bag; popping the filter bag with a reverse-flow of a cleaning gas stream to remove dust from the bag; and finally re-introducing the particulate-laden gas stream to the recently cleaned filter bag at a low velocity/flow rate to prevent small particles from blowing through the recently cleaned filter bag. The apparatus and method allow the particulate-laden gas stream and cleaning gas stream to be controlled independently.

Abstract: The invention provides a debris separation-filtration unit comprising a housing; an inlet that receives debris-laden air delivers the air in a tangential, centrifugal airflow-forming manner to the interior of housing; an inner shell that includes a number of airflow passageways; and a debris-capturing filter, the sides of which filter are at least substantially surrounded by the inner shell. Due to the formation of the centrifugal airflow and presence of the inner shell in the housing, only a portion of the debris particles entering the unit come in contact with the filter. The invention also provides debris collection, separation, and filtration systems comprising one or more of the separation-filtration units of the invention; debris collection vehicles comprising one or more of such units or systems; and related methods of collecting, separating, and filtering debris.

Abstract: A valve and trigger cyclically connect a vacuum and a blower to a filter. The valve box has three openings, the first connectable to the vacuum, the second connectable to the blower and the third connectable to the filter. A gate inside the box, biased by the blower and the vacuum toward closing the first opening, is held against the bias by a trigger outside the box to close the second opening. The external trigger intervally operates to release the interior gate to close the first opening and open the second opening. The blower operates only if the trigger is operating. The gate is released once for approximately {fraction (1/12)} of a cycle interval during each trigger operating interval. A plurality of valves can be combined in a system with one trigger for cyclically sequentially connecting a plurality of filters to the vacuum and the blower.

Abstract: An improved apparatus and method for pulse-jet cleaning of filter bags in a baghouse using pulsed, high-pressure/low-volume, intermediate-pressure/intermediate-volume, or low-pressure/high-volume pulsed air flow. Relative movement between a first tubular member and a second member causes apertures in the members to align intermittently. When the apertures are aligned, pressurized air is fed, through a pulse valve or from a combustion chamber, into the tubular first member and flows out of the aligned apertures in a short, energetic pulse. The pulse is directed down into a filter bag arranged below the pulse pipe to pulse-clean the filter bag or into another pulse pipe arranged above a filter bag.

Abstract: An improved apparatus and method for pulse-jet cleaning of filter bags in a baghouse using pulsed, high-pressure/low-volume, intermediate-pressure/intermediate-volume, or low-pressure/high-volume pulsed air flow. Rotation of one pipe relative to another pipe about a shared longitudinal axis causes apertures in the pipes to align intermittently. When the apertures are aligned, pressurized air is fed, through a pulse valve, into the inner tube of the two and flows out of the nested pulse pipe arrangement in a short, energetic pulse. The pulse is directed down into a filter bag arranged below the pulse pipe to pulse-clean the filter bag.

Abstract: A cyclone dust collector wherein the interior of a cyclone body is divided into an upper space and a lower space by a partition member provided with a plurality of cylindrical filters, a suction port is so provided as to communicate with the lower space, a common discharge port is so provided as to communicate with the upper space, a collected dust recovery box is fixed to the lower end of the cyclone body, and a discharge blower is connected to the discharge port of the cyclone body. The dust collector is further provided with backwashing stop valves capable of opening and closing upper end portions of the filters and having backwashing nozzles, stop valve driving mechanisms adapted to open and close the stop valves, compressed air hoses connected to the backwashing nozzles of the stop valves, and backwashing electromagnetic valves for controlling the supply and cutoff of backwashing compressed air to the compressed air hoses.