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August 27, 2018

Significantly reducing dust explosion risks

by Megan, Bialobrzeski, Marketing Coordinator, Flexicon, USA

Dust containment is especially important in the milling and grain industries. The dust in these facilities can cause not only suffocations, but also deadly explosions (OSHA).
 


Flexicon designs and builds systems and equipment to reduce these risks. The Flexicon Corporation is a world leader in the manufacturing of bulk material handling equipment. Many of Flexicon’s products are specially designed to contain dust in customer’s facilities. Without dust containment, facilities face higher odds of contamination, safety hazards, and cleaning issues, amongst other problems. Flexicon’s equipment is prepared to handle any dust containment issues a facility may have.

Flexicon’s BULK-OUT® Bulk Bag Discharger ensures dust free discharge of bulk bags throughout the entire process. After the bag is secured in the frame, a high-integrity sealed connection between the bulk bag spout and the receiving hopper is created by use of Flexicon’s patented SPOUT-LOCK® clamp ring, and TELE-TUBE® telescoping tube. Prior to untying the bag, the user pulls the bag spout through an opening in the frame and the clamp ring lowering the later to create the connection to the top of the telescoping tube. This enables users to untie the bag spout without concern of dust exiting the bag.

Once the bag is untied, material is able to discharge freely into the telescoping tube, with the seal being maintained, for continuous dust free discharge. To ensure the bag is completely empty, the discharger puts downward pressure on the bag spout, to form the bag into a V-shape, enabling the corners to be emptied.

The ability of having the seal remain intact throughout the process enables the use of Flexicon’s BAG-VAC® Dust Collector. The BAG-VAC® Dust Collector creates negative pressure within the sealed system to collapse empty bags before retying. This eliminates the chance for dust to enter the air, as it commonly does when bags are collapsed manually.


Read the full article, HERE.
 

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