Saturday, October 13, 2012

The Different Fume Extraction Systems Used

By Leigh Bean


To remove dust from the workplace, employers are required by several laws to install equipment to facilitate fume extraction. This is to ensure that workers are protected from possible hazards to their health brought about by chronic inhalation of vapors. International and local laws allows legal actions and expensive fines against companies found lacking of protecting their employees from these hazards.

There are several advantages that a smoke removal system can offer. Aside from being able to protect the health of your employees and comply with health and safety regulations, you can also help increase production and cut complaints from equipment operators about unpleasant odors, emissions, and dust. Removing dust from the workplace will also avoid paying for health claims and health-related compensation from sick employees. Thus, your employees get to enjoy a healthy working environment.

Another advantage you can get by providing an odor-free work environment is it can help in increasing your production. The absence of harmful smoke and dust also reduces the time your maintenance teams spend in cleaning your lenses, conveyors, soldering machines, and other production equipment. Production downtime will lessen as repairs and parts replacements are prevented. These results to greater productivity for you and your company.

A smoke-free environment can also make you produce high quality products. Less or no product contamination results to high product retention and increased sales. There is also a high probability of return orders from satisfied customers.

There are several types of fume extraction systems available, depending on the kind of material from which the vapor came from. One type of vapor is produced by battery acid usually met in companies that recharge batteries used in electric lifting equipment. Workers that experience chronic exposure to battery acid emissions are in danger of developing laryngeal carcinoma. The vapors should be extracted using either a canopy enclosure or captor hoods.

Vapors produced during the soldering process is also hazardous. It has unburnt lead flux that can cause lead poisoning if chronic exposure is experienced. Workers in fabrication shops that are constantly exposed to soldering emissions should be protected using collection and extractor hoods fitted with fans.

Paint thinners, varnishes, wood stains, and paints also produce harmful vapors. Exposure for long periods to these smoke can also cause health problems. Spray booths with filter papers or air filters and emission hoods with extractor fans can be installed in the room or warehouse that contains these products. Chemical vapors which can also pose risks to the health can be extracted using extractor fans with flexible arms to efficiently collect the smoke from the workplace. Canopies and spray booths or fixed grilles can also be installed in rooms used for hazardous chemical processes.

Aside from industries and laboratories, the cosmetic business also produces their own type of vapors. These fumes come from quick-dry nail sprays, varnishes, nail polish removers, and even materials applied in nail extensions. To remove the smoke from inside a saloon, a system is designed to capture contaminants and again circulate clean air into a beauty salon.

Portable vapor extractors are recommended for use if large volume of smoke are not regularly produced. These portable devices can be used even inside households. It can also act as a fume extraction device in small machine shops, small fabrication shops.




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