Hello All, I'm in the process of researching ambient air filtration units for our school's large woodshop and was wondering if anyone had any recommendations on commercial units that are currently ava

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Ben, Our wood shop is roughly 20' x 25'. We have three AFS-1000 filters (Jet branded) hanging up that have served us well so far (our machines have dedicated dust collectors as well). Having three all

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Ben, Look into Micro Air, www.microaironline.com I was very impressed with Brandon Saner, brandons@... when we met at Safety 2020 in New Orleans. Will be contacting him when we start th

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Hello all, We are planning to do quite a bit of work with concrete and are concerned about the dust. Our lab is about 1400 square feet, but in the past, the dust has spilled out into a lot of the rest

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Stan, We just have students use a vacuum hose or dust collection hose coming off the main system over the mixer while we pour. Humidifiers and/or spray bottles can mitigate small batch problems but su

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Thanks Michael. I agree that capturing it at the source seems better than trying to deal with it after it spreads into the room. You have a central dust collection system, which I wish we had, but don

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Hi Stan, I’ve been waiting to get a Pulsbac vacuum from Pulsbac.com. It is a similar system to what the Zcorp or 3DS 450 has for filtering powder. Almost eliminates filter changes. I would look into o

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One thing that will help is to hold a large piece of 1/4" plywood or similar material tight over the opening of the mixer until the concrete is hydrated. The less dust leaving the mixer the better. Al

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Hi Stan, Like others mentioned, we've focused on source control. We have an OmniAire 2200C with a snorkel attached to it that we put near anything making dust. Before turning on the cement mixer we ha

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I am by no means an expert, but I think OSHA has requirements on this. I think you need to create negative pressure in the room so no dust gets out--by having a strong fan blowing to the outdoors. On

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Sometimes we have successfully performed similar dirty processes in our spray booth. Given that you will be moving about, maybe you could do something similar with a tent structure. JK IIT

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Hi Stan, In addition to the great suggestions by everyone, using a “Jet” dust collection system normally used at woodshops with the 4” hose right over the mixer will help control the dust at the sourc

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Please see link below for another option for concrete and silica dust. https://www.oneida-air.com/contractor-tools/silica-dust-solutions Best, Elie Merheb Office of Facilities and Equipment McArthur E

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Hi Charles, I really appreciate your, and everyone else's input on this. A lot of good information. I like the looks of the OmniAir unit a lot. I was wondering how fast filters would clog on their uni

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There is a company near Cypress, Texas that has some real good equipment. We have several of their products in use on campus. You can call them and explain just as you have in this email and they shou

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Stan, The OmniAire was purchased by my predecessor shortly before I started. It's seen light use over the last year and we have yet to change the filters. The machine has prefilters that can be purcha

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