An oil mist collector is now a considered a very important equipment in many industries that deals with oil mist as a by-product of their processes. What is an oil mist? In the most basic state, an oil mist is a mixture of oil droplets that are very small to be seen by the naked eye. The mist is combined to the clean air in the surrounding and the ratio is 1 for every 2 million particles. The oil mist has many uses compared to the typical liquid oil. Oil mist is being collected for a number of decades already with the aid of oil mist collector. Now that technology has developed and many equipment have been developed over time. May technologies are now developed and used in order to extract as well as collect oil mist in various ways.
Extraction and collection technologies are developed for the very reason that oil mist offers a lot of benefits. Oil mist is known to have excellent lubricant characteristics that performs better in making sure a machine does not need maintenance as often as when other lubricants are used. Oil mist as lubricant is used many industries specifically in petrochemical plants as well as in housing. One of the most common and simple system that is used compared to other traditional methods is the oil mist systems. There are older versions of this method that was widely used in the middle of the 80th century but is no longer in use nowadays. There are many different kinds of units that are used to filter and extract the oil mist and are used by a number of manufacturing companies all over the globe. These units are commonly seen in manufacturing plants that have to deal with oil mist as a result of metal working process and other production processes.
An oil mist collector is important in factories because it helps protect the employee’s health as well as ensure that the machining equipment used is protected too. These collectors do not costs a lot of money to install and it employs different technologies in collecting oil mist. The centrifugal mist collectors make use of a filter element that rotates which helps in enlarging the captured mist droplets. The droplets then move from the filter drum and stick to the casing wall. Once the oil is liquefied, it travels until it reached the opening with the help of high velocity air. The opening is where the excess oil is drained out.
The cartridge mist collectors are also referred to as media filter mist eliminators. This type of collector makes use of a filter that is of HEPA type which is responsible in trapping mist as well as smoke oil. The trapping and collection of oil mist is done with the use of a simple filtering process. Another type of oil mist collectors is the electrostatic precipitator collectors. High voltage is employed in order to charge the particles and droplets before they are collected.