Dust Collection for Agricultural Applications
Dust collection plays an important role in grain, seed & nut industry sectors & greenhouse odour control.
Reliable Dust Collection & Explosion Mitigation for Agricultural Processes
AST Canada supplies reliable dust collection and combustible dust mitigation solutions to fit a variety of grain processing applications.
With several decades of experience engineering dust collectors and filters, AST Canada is the name you can trust above all others for grain processing.
Full Range of Leading Dust Collectors
From the PowerCore® CP Series to the time-tested RF, Donaldson dust collectors are dependable workhorses in the grain industry.
PowerCore, Pleated Bag and Dura-Life™ Filtration Solutions
Donaldson advanced filtration technologies enhance performance and help reduce operating expenses.
Combustible Dust Mitigation Experience
We work with you to support your fire and explosion prevention and protection strategies.
Dust Collection Technology in Grain Applications
National Sales Director, Hube Visee, explains how when PowerCore dust collectors are applied at grain transfer points, efficiency is at its peak.
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Grain
AST Canada is a trusted supplier of industrial air filtration, providing effective solutions for grain processing applications.
Our filtration expertise, a wide breadth of product offerings, and unrivalled product support optimize filtration performance and reduce the long-term cost of operation. We offer an extensive range of first-fit and aftermarket products and services to keep your process running efficiently, from incoming materials all the way through to packaged goods.
Nut
AST Canada is a trusted supplier of industrial air filtration, providing effective solutions for nut processing applications.
Our filtration expertise, a wide breadth of product offerings, and unrivalled product support optimize filtration performance and reduce the long-term cost of operation. We offer an extensive range of first-fit and aftermarket products and services to keep your process running efficiently, from incoming materials all the way through to packaged goods.
Seed
AST Canada is a trusted supplier of industrial air filtration, providing effective solutions for seed processing applications.
Our filtration expertise, wide breadth of product offerings, and unrivaled product support optimize filtration performance and reduce long-term cost of operation. We offer an extensive range of first-fit and aftermarket products and services to keep your process running efficiently, from incoming materials all the way through to packaged goods.
Product Manager Talks About CP Series Dust Collector
During this GEAPs interview, Karen explains how the smaller CP Series dust collector provides easy filter changeouts, saves energy, time, space, and costs.
Applications
Donaldson’s advanced dust collection technology is the most widely used in the grain, agriculture and feed industry and is becoming the new standard for dust control in this sector. We provide air filtration expertise in the most challenging dusty situations. Common applications include e.g. intake hoppers, elevators, screw, chain, and belt conveyors, storage bins, silos, screens and sieves, grinders and pellet mills.
Conveying
Donaldson advocates “source collection” designs for conveyor applications, where the dust collector operates near to the point of dust creation. This way less ductwork and fewer discharge systems, which leads to lower purchase costs and less energy consumption. The PowerCore CPV and DLMV dust collectors are well suited for this configuration. Donaldson also offers several styles of dust collectors easily customizable to mount remotely from the actual dust generation point.
Silo & Bin Venting
The agricultural industry has the requirement to store materials in bulk and Donaldson offers superior dust control technology in the form of small compact bin vent dust collectors through to large venting units for integrating in to large silos. The benefit of integrated dust control is that it delivers efficient product recovery without the need for ducting and separate discharge equipment.
Milling
Barley, corn, maize, wheat, rye, and oats are all materials that can be processed, and from these, a coarse, fibrous dust is generated typically in an atmosphere containing oil vapors and high humidity. In addition, dust from these materials can have the potential to create explosive atmospheres.
Mixing
Mixing and blending processes create fine dust having a variety of properties, such as hygroscopic characteristics, sticky, and frequently with the potential to be explosive. Donaldson has an equally wide range of products to satisfy this application and solutions include state of the art PowerCore CP range with its compact design and ease of maintenance benefits, and the Dalamatic range of bag dust collectors fitted with Dura-Life media for high air flow capacity, and suitable for handling agglomerating materials.
Related Products
Baghouse
Rugged Pleat
The Donaldson Rugged Pleat (RP) Baghouse sets a new standard for baghouse dust collector performance, combining advanced collector design with superior filtration technology in our most maintenance-friendly design ever.
RF Series
The Donaldson Torit® RF baghouse dust collector handles heavy-dust loads and large volumes of air and offers a cleaning system that does not require compressed air.
Dalamatic®
The Dalamatic® baghouse dust collector uses Dura-Life™ envelope-shaped bag filters, providing greater movement to dislodge dust cakes during pulsing.
Modular Baghouse
Donaldson Torit® Modular Baghouse dust collectors deliver reliable, efficient, continuous-duty, pulse jet operation in a compact design with easy maintenance.
FS Series
The Donaldson Torit® FS Pulse Jet baghouse dust collector provides an economical solution for bin venting applications with increased durability and integrity.
FT Pulse
The FT Pulse Jet baghouse dust collector minimizes moisture and particulate issues in pulse valves in high-volume applications, with easy and dependable operation.
Cartridge
Downflo® Evolution
The Donaldson Torit® Downflo® Evolution (DFE) cartridge dust collector is capable of reducing equipment size and the number of required filters by up to 40%.
Downflo® Oval
The Donaldson Torit® Downflo® Oval (DFO) cartridge dust collector is a compact, high-efficiency unit that use oval-shaped filters suited for filtering submicron dust.
PowerCore®
CP Series
Donaldson Torit® PowerCore® CP Series cartridge dust collectors use smaller, more efficient filters compared to baghouse models with a footprint up to 50% smaller.
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