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•Shaker type
• Reverse Air
•Cartridge
•Pulse jet - focus on this one
Shaker Baghouse
• 2 or more compartment
• Shut one off while other cleans
• Shakes the bags
• Advantage
• Simple design and operation
• Clean without shutting down system
• Disadvantage
• More energy & time to clean
• Small amount of pressure significantly impacts cleaning efficiency
• Large foot print and # of bags
• 2 -2.5:1 Air/Cloth ratio
• Often take sonic horns - cleaning
• Horns 125 to 160 Hz
• Produces 120 – 145 DB sound
pressure
• Over use results in particle
penetration through bags
Reverse Air Baghouse
• Multiple compartments
• Reverse the air within the chamber
• 1.75-2.5:1 Air/Cloth ratio
• Advantage
• Clean each section without shutting down
• Very gentle cleaning – long bag life
• Good for high temps due to gentle cleaning
• Disadvantage
• Cleaning air has to be clean & dry
• Dust re-entrainment on the bags = more R & M
Cartridge Baghouse
• Normally expensive – bags – fewer of them
• High temperature
• Designed for specific acid or base
conditions
• Similar Air cloth ratio capacity as pulse jet
~ 4:1 Air minute / Cloth area = pleated so
small – watch can velocity with these
• Rarely every used in Perlite processing
Pulse Jet Baghouse basics
Clean Air
Dirty Air
Pulse Jet Baghouse
• One Compartment
• High compressed air blasts to clean bags
• 3 – 4.5: A/C ratio [ Air per minute / area of cloth ]
• Advantages
• Small footprint
• Clean while in operation
• Better cleaning than other 2 BHs
• Longer bag life
• Low pressure drop across the baghouse
Pulse Jet
• Disadvantage
• Lot of compressed air
• Pressure 80 – 100 psig @ manifold
• Clean air required
• Dry air required
• Process air needs to be DRY
Personal Pulse Jet Experiences
• Fought baghouse issues for over week
• Knew basics but never got into detail –
till then
• Learned more ever wanted to know
• Share some of those with you – basic
understanding of BH
Want 60 degree angle
Just like a cyclone
– steep walls
– Single outlet
Recommendations
• Square baghouse – not rectangular
• Round baghouse also good
• 60+ degree slope on walls
• Single discharge device
• – Rotary valve
• – double flapper
• My Problem
• Gradually plugged up
• Shut down, clean out
• Lots of material discharged
• Not discharging
• Or poor collection in
cyclone before BH
• Did not have Delta P over
baghouse to see what was
going on – CHEAPER design
•Auger under Baghouse
•NO Rotary seal valve
•Installed one
•Ran for 8 Hr then
started plugging again
•Not the cause
Still had build up over time
• Possible problem with too many fines
• Maybe the cyclone wasn’t working right
• Reviewed design of cyclone
• Checked RV under the cyclone before the BH
• Rotary Valve
• Located
• Size
• clearance
• RV speed – less than 20 RPM
• Pressure drop across cyclone
• Throat piece
• Check for holes
• Distance in the barrel
Check out the Baghouse Design
To Baghouse
Out of Baghouse
In the Baghouse
Particles settle out
Can Velocity
• brittle
• & cracked - leaking
• Replaced – still stayed Compressed
air from
manifold
open
Selenoid Efforts
• Checked the selenoids – some stayed open –
constant draining of volume
• 36 selenoids on 1 manifold
• Couldn’t detect which solenoid was staying open
• Could not isolate sections to see about where the
solenoid was staying open
• Created banks of selenoids to isolate areas to see
where the problem was
Results
•Found a number were staying open
•Removed, cleaned,
•No identifiable problem
• Replaced selenoids
•Still happened, just other selenoids
Selenoid problem
• Wasn’t Design problem
• Why was it staying open???
• Possible water in the compressed air
• Checked out the drier
• It wasn’t automatically drained
• Sequenced the water purging
Continued problem
•Still had the problem but it was worse
during night shift
•Checked compressed air to see if oil in the
air – filter
•It got wet and plugged
•Wet - water not oil
•Concluded problem was dryer
Problem was !
• Wet compressed air – froze the selenoids especially
in the evenings/night
• Control air & bleed air – hard to maintain pressure
in reservoir
• Compressed air for pulsing stayed open
• Drained the compressed air reservoir
• Other selenoids won’t operate
Recommendations from what I learned
• Questions ?
Future discussions:
• I struggle to develop topics to present to this group
• I try to make the items generic enough that they maybe
of interest to a lot of you
• I sure would appreciate input from you as to what
subjects you may want me to consider talking about
next year.
• These take a lot of time so the soon the ideas the better
• I sure would appreciate Any / All input