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Home > Main Index > Markets > Industrial Applications > Filter Media Perlite Filter Media for Air/Gas/Solid Seperation Many bag house operations are presented with particularly difficult problems because of the material being filtered. For instance, in coals mills, asphalt plants, smelting plants, some incineration operations, paint shops, and certain chemical plants, the "dirty" air contains particulates which can bind up cloth filters, restrict airflows, and decrease the life of bags and cartridges. Other bag house operations have problems due to bag binding, tacky or sticky or viscous particulates, or problems due to temperature, moisture, or particle size. In most of these applications, special filtration grades of perlite can be added either when new bags are first installed as an initial "pre-coating", or it can be added to the air flow continuously during the regular operation of the bag house. In either situation, perlite helps protect the bag fibers, improves bag house performance by increasing air flows and decreasing the particle sizes which can escape through the bags. APPLICATION GUIDES Perlite should be added to bag houses in the same volumetric proportions as any other conditioning or precoating material would be used. Essentially enough perlite filter powder is added to maintain a very fine "coating" of approximately 1/16 to 1/8 of an inch on the surface of each bag. Once you know the total square footage of the bags being used in the entire baghouse, this number is multiplied by the design thickness of the filter cake (1/16 to 1/8 of an inch divided by 12) to determine the approximatley number of cubic feet needed to condition all the bags. Most perlite manufacturers pack in 2.3-2.4 cubic foot bags so the final cubic footage of material needed would be divided by 2.3 to give the total number of bags of perlite needed. How and when perlite is used differs with different systems and different problems. Perlite normally is added one of two ways:
For more precise and more technical information on both how and when to use perlite as a pre-coat filtering product, the baghouse manufacturer and bag supplier should be consulted. |
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Information given herein is from sources considered
reliable, but no guarantee of accuracy can be made or liability assumed. Your
supplier may be able to provide you with more precise data. Certain compositions or
processes involving perlite may be the subject of patents. |
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