How to Choose the Right Bag Filter for Your Industry?

Do you want clean air in industrial settings? If yes, then you can get clean air using bag filters in your industrial premises. A bag filter system removes solid contaminants and particles, leaving the air relatively clean. There are multiple filter options available in the Indian market and it is difficult to choose the right one. This blog explains how to pick the right filtration system for your applications.

Why do you need a bag filter system?

It is important to have a filter for your plant, factory, mill, or other processing facility. The proper dust collector bag filter removes hazardous particles from the airstream and increases air quality. Proper filtering medium in industrial settings guarantees a safe and healthy working environment. The proper filter will help protect machinery and equipment from dust accumulation.

A Basic Overview of a Dust Collector Bag Filter

A filter is a fabric-based filtering device for baghouse dust collection systems. They’re used in dry filtration dust collectors such as pulse-jet, shaker, and reverse air. Fabric filters collect dust particles from the polluted airstream and deposit them on fabric material. The fabric filters are typically cylindrical fabric bags, thus the names “bag filter” and “baghouse.”

Some systems also use fabric cartridges, sintered metal cartridges, or porous ceramic cartridges. Fabric filtration systems are extremely efficient and can capture more than 99 percent of the particles.

How to Choose a Bag Filter System?

Analyze your Requirements

The first step in selecting the correct filter is to understand the facility’s process conditions and needs. Design engineers must understand what makes up the air or gas stream, as well as the size and kind of particles and particulate matter that pass through the filter medium. Knowing the process conditions ensures that the fabric fiber for the bag filter, as well as the filter media design, will operate in a specific industrial setting.

Know Operating Temperatures

The selection of the appropriate fabric material is related to the continuous operating temperature of the gas stream at the system’s input. That, as well as the type of dust collector system—how and when the dust cakes are removed from the media—varies between pulse-jet, shaker, and reverse air systems.

When the ambient working temperature does not exceed 120°F (50°C) at any time, any industrial-grade synthetic or natural fiber material can be considered for the application. However, if continuous working temperatures grow, particular heat-resistant fiber materials will need to be chosen. Bag filters are commonly made of materials such as PVC, nylon, cotton, polypropylene, PTFE, fiberglass, and polyimide.

Review Material Properties

Make sure to know the material’s heat-resistant characteristics. Also, consider any moisture or chemical vapors in the gas stream. The efficacy of your baghouse’s dust collection system determines the fabric filter media design you use. It might be a traditional woven fabric design or a non-woven fabric design such as needled felt. 

It’s good to choose a dust collection bag filter from trusted brands. GTS Filters and Systems is a top manufacturing brand that provides high-quality filters. Contact us to learn more about our filtration systems

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