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Air Cleaning
SKOV Components
The incentive to develop systems for
cleaning house air derives from the
agricultural sector being under great
national and international pressure to
reduce its environmental load. For animal
production, this involves requirements for
a reduction of ammonia emissions, other
nitrogen compounds, etc.
This also applies to odours from houses.
Producers are facing an increasing number
of limitations when they wish to establish
new house systems or extend them. These
limitations often occur in the form of
protests against the odour load.
Recent research results have shown that
dust from houses can be disease carriers.
SKOV has developed an efficient air-cleaning
system for cleaning the outgoing air.
Farm AirClean
Farm AirClean is a system for biological
cleaning of air. The system is based solely
on biological air-cleaning principles. These
principles are effective when it comes to
reducing odour, ammonia and dust.
Thorough Testing of the System
has shown that:
• The content of ammonia in the outgoing
air from the house is reduced to less
than 1 ppm.
• The ‘pig smell’ is removed from the
outgoing air.
• The content of dust in the outgoing air
is reduced by 95%.
Farm AirClean is a modular system where
the quantity of air cleaning cabinets can
be calculated based on the number of
cubic metres of house air to be cleaned.
The cleaning units are available in capaci-
ties ranging from 10,000 to 40,000 cubic
metres per hour. All units are fitted with
automatic filter washers.
The house air is sent through two filters
which are sprinkled with water. Ammonia
and odour substances are removed
in both filters while most of the dust is
removed in the first filter. The air cleaning
process is a biological process. Bio films
of bacteria and other microorganisms are
formed on the filters. Ammonia, odour
substances and dust are removed when
the house air gets into contact with the
water and the bio films in the filters.
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