Discover how Tama Aernova’s baghouse filters Pulco Air enhance dust management in plastic recycling, reducing emissions and environmental risks.

The plastic recycling sector is one of the most strategic and crucial areas in the transition to a circular economy. While plastic has transformed our daily lives due to its versatility, it also presents serious environmental challenges. Every year, vast amounts of plastic waste are produced much of which is thrown away in landfills, oceans, or dispersed in the environment.

Despite several efforts to improve plastic waste management, the recycling process faces several barriers:

• Material contamination: Plastic waste frequently contains organic residues, chemicals, and other contaminants, posing challenges for efficient sorting and thorough cleaning, and potentially compromising the quality of the recycled material.

• Plastic degradation: Plastic is not infinitely recyclable; with each reuse cycle, its quality degrades, limiting its applicability and reducing the range of possible uses for regenerated products.

• The high amount of particulate matter and volatile compounds: Often produced under high-temperature and high-humidity conditions, these pollutants—combined with the potential presence of gases, vapors, and potentially explosive mixtures—pose a significant risk during polymer shredding and melting processes.

To address this issue, Tama Aernova has developed the Pulco Air baghouse filter, an effective solution to handle the most complex challenges of plastic recycling. With its ability to filter pollutant particles, it helps to make recycling more efficient, reducing environmental impact and providing better working conditions for workers.

Baghouse Filters: Technology for More Efficient Recycling

In the plastic recycling process, the Pulco Air baghouse filters find application mainly in two phases:

1. Plastic grinding and shredding, fine plastic dust can pollute the environment and disrupt machinery performance, leading to operational inefficiencies. Baghouse filters effectively capture these particulates, ensuring a safer process and a cleaner working environment.
2. Thermal processes (pyrolysis or extrusion), where residual gases produced by heated plastics may contain solid particles or fumes. By retaining these pollutants, baghouse filters reduce emissions and help to adhere to environmental standards.

CASE HISTORY: Dust filtration from plastic recycling

 

Key points of the project
Application	Dust extraction for plastic recycling
Airflow capacity:	34.000 m3/h
Filter type:	Baghouse Filter Pulco Air Atex
Location:	Poland

 

 

Efficiency and sustainability play an important role in guaranteeing competitiveness and compliance with environmental regulations. The Pulco Air baghouse filter can ensure:

• High filtration efficiency: resulting from a combination of technical, materials, and design factors that maximize the capacity to retain unwanted particles without affecting the flow of filtered air.

• High discharge efficiency: optimizes the removal of fine dust, pollutant particles, and other airborne contaminants, even at high volumetric flow rates.

• Adaptability: they can be configured to handle different types of plastics and several operational conditions.

• Automatic and constant monitoring: so that clogging is avoided enabling the system to always work at maximum efficiency and minimize downtime. This results in long-term cost savings by extending the sleeves' functional life.

Integrating the Pulco Air baghouse filter into the recycling process not only enhances operational safety and sustainability but also ensures compliance with environmental regulations, driving progress toward a more responsible and efficient circular economy.

For more information or a personalized consultation tailored to your facility, our expert team is ready to assist you. Contact us today to discover the ideal Pulco Air baghouse filter for your specific needs.

          

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