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Industrial Wet & Dry Vacuum Cleaners
Industrial vacuum cleaners
When working conditions and dirt type are
extreme, dangerous or difficult to manage,
then the VLP range is the solution to all the
problems. Innovative filtering systems,
liquid waste management, toughness
construction and (for some models) the
possibility to work with dangerous
dusts, set new standards in the
industrial sector regarding extensive
working expectation, productivity, filtering
capacity and efficiency.
Why wider filtering area is not making
automatically a better machine?
In the industrial sector, productivity,
resistance and breakeven expectations are
growing.
The ideal vacuum would be then a
machine filtering any kind of dust (also the
thinnest) being able to work continuously
without the need to clean the filter and
without any maintenance.
It is more important to get close
effectively to this target rather than
the way we can reach this. This is
the reason why is useless having a big
filtering area if the filter is still clogging up fast and more
often I need to stop working to clean it.
In our machines we developed the best prevention of
the problem (avoiding dust is reaching quickly the filter)
rather than trying a solution afterwards (since the filter
is clogging up quickly, extending the filtering area it is
supposed to extend the effectiveness). It doesn’t matter
how wide is the filter, but for how long can work the
machine without the need to clean the filter…
And with this issue, we are the best.
When either more airflow or more depressure
is necessary?
The airflow helps the dirt transport trough long pipes.
Longer is the hose, better is bigger airflow; still with light
dust it is better having lower depressure: the inlet air
speed will be lower, the harder the dirt is getting in touch
with the filter.
When residuals have high specific weight, depressure is
more important than airflow to win gravity force of dirt
attached to the surface.
What are safety vacuums?
A safety vacuum cleaner is intended a machine entirely
certified (so not only the filter, but the whole machine)
to comply hard EU directives and norms regulating
vacuuming hazardous dust split in two big groups as
dangerous dust and explosive dust.
Dangerous dust is split again in: dust with OEL* value
and cancerogenic dust (only in Germany asbestos is
considered a cancerogenic dust for which a further
classification and certificate is necessary).
Some examples of these dust are asbestos, food and
wood preservatives and fertilizer.
Explosive dust are for examples wood dust, aluminium
dust and flour.
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