Dust Collection for the Food & Beverage Industry
We Offer a Wide Variety of Dust Collectors for Food & Beverage, Customized to Meet Your Specific Needs
Reliable Dust Collection for Food & Beverage Processing Applications
AST Canada supplies reliable dust collection and combustible dust mitigation solutions to fit a variety of food and beverage 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.
Food & Beverage Processing Industry
Food processing industries move a variety of products – grain, sugar, flour, dairy, cocoa, cereal, spices and many more. Depending on the application, there may be concerns with cross-contamination, sanitary regulations, and/or food-handling regulations.
Diverse Dust Collection Equipment Required
AST Canada supplies a wide variety of dust collectors that can be applied in the food processing industry ranging from small bin vents to large baghouses customized to meet the specific needs of each type of food product.
Donaldson PowerCore® in Food Processing
Dust collectors or “material separators” in the food industry keep the product in the process stream through use of a bin vent collector such as the PowerCore® CP unit, preventing the loss of valuable ingredients and removing a potential waste stream. PowerCore filters represent the latest technology in dust collection and outperform baghouse collectors in a smaller space.
Applications
Bulk & Material Handling
Food processing industries move large volumes of a variety of products – grain, sugar, flour, dairy, cereal, spices and many more. Depending on the application, there may be concerns with cross-contamination, hygiene issues, or hazards such as the potential for explosive atmospheres. We offer a wide variety of dust collectors customized to meet the specific needs of each type of food product.
Conveying
We advocate for “source collection” designs in conveyor applications, where the dust collector operates near the point of dust creation. This results in less ducting and fewer discharge systems, which in turn leads to lower purchase costs and less energy consumption.
Packing
Material can be lost during packing, especially from fuming materials. Sometimes the end product is returned to the process, and on other occasions, extraction is for hygiene purposes and the airborne dust is collected as a waste product. Food materials are often hygroscopic and frequently have the potential to be explosive. Donaldson provides excellent dust collectors to deal with packing applications.
Silo and Bin Venting
The food 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 integration in large silos. Integrated dust control offers the benefit of delivering efficient product recovery without the need for ducting and separate discharge equipment.
Related Products
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.
Baghouse
Dalamatic®
The Dalamatic® baghouse dust collector uses Dura-Life™ envelope-shaped bag filters, providing greater movement to dislodge dust cakes during pulsing.
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.
LP Series
Donaldson Torit® LP Series baghouse dust collectors use reverse air bag filter cleaning to prevent air flow before and after cleaning, resulting in lower pressure drop.
Unimaster®
The Unimaster® baghouse dust collector does not use compressed air, and comes with a fan, automatic shaker and controller to simplify installation.
IoT Enabled with iCue™ Connected Filtration Service
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