What Is an Industrial Vacuum Cleaner?
An industrial vacuum cleaner is a vacuum cleaning machine, with a higher suction power than household machines. They are used in industrial settings where there is a need for powerful and efficient cleaning.
In appearance, it is a lid-shaped device with a hose connected to it. It is in close contact with a pail that serves as a collection container and performs its suction function by allowing compressed air to pass through it.
An industrial cleaner is easy to handle, compact, low-cost, and maintenance-free. They can operate independently without a compressed air supply line. However, on the downside they are much more expensive and require regular maintenance.
Uses of Industrial Vacuum Cleaners
Industrial vacuum cleaners can suction a wide range of materials, whether solid or liquid.
As for solids, the likes sand, metal chips, dust, wood chips, and resin pellets are suction targets. The system is used to collect chips in machining shops, sand and chips in foundries, and pellets in injection molding machines.
Liquids such as water, oil, and sludge can also be used for this purpose. The applications include oil change and sludge recovery from various machines, recovery of oil and muddy water in manholes and ditches, recovery and replacement of punching debris and hydraulic oil in presses, recovery of sludge in car washes, and recovery of sand and iron balls in shot blasting machines.
Principle of Industrial Vacuum Cleaners
The industrial vacuum cleaner can be used indoors or outdoors, wherever a supply of compressed air is available. First, compressed air is passed through the cleaner and then discharged from the ejector. This creates negative pressure inside the cleaner, including the pail, and the object is sucked in through the suction nozzle.
The cleaner and the pail are tightly sealed to ensure stable suction. Therefore, it is important that the rubber gasket connecting the two fit tightly into the groove of the rubber packing. Therefore, depending on the size of the collection container, an appropriate model should be selected.
The lineup of commercially available products ranges from those for tens of liters to those for open drums of 200 liters. The appropriate operating air pressure to be applied to the ejector is 5 to 6 kg/cm2. Pressure and vacuum have a proportional relationship. Therefore, if the pressure is too low, the ejector will not provide sufficient suction power. If the pressure is too high, the container may be crushed.