Saw Dust Issue as small as chocolate powder?

Question

If there is an enclosed wood factory with about 100,000 sqft in space. And inside there is about 5,000 sqft of area doing wood grinding with ~10 portable wood grinder. How to solve the Saw Dust issue that as small as a chocolate powder from being spread all over the 100,000 sqft space? No Compartmentation of 5,000sqft area is allowed.

Yes to Mr. Hanumaster Question. I need some kind of technology that can remove or prevent the saw dust being spreading to the air like haze.

Answer 1

your question is a little difficult to understand. are you asking how you can isolate the 5k sqft area so that the other areas dont fill up with saw dust?

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Well, my first thought is that if your grinding at stations, you could put in ductwork to extract the wood dust at each station. The next best thing would be to put all (or most) of the building's exhaust capacity in the 5,000 sqft area and fresh air make-up ini the other parts of the building. This would tend to keep the dust from going to other areas of the building. And lastly, keep the floors and surfaces swept down so you can minimize tracking the dust to other parts of the building on forklifts, people, etc.

Answer 4

Use efficient dust collection systems to suck up the dust. To further isolate the area you may be able to use air curtains around the grinder area to help confine the dust particles to the dust collection.

HOWEVER, from my experience working with such fine wood dust and dust from metal buffing operations, the only effective way to virtually prevent dust contamination on operations like lacquering would be to compartmentalize the area. You will not be able to prevent all dust from escaping with providing an enclosed environment. As filters on dust collectors build up dust and equipment gets bumped or damaged you ability to capture particles can decrease dramatically. The issue is how much dust can you tolerate and how expensive a high tech solution would be compared to putting up a basic partition wall.