Animal Bedding Dust Control Solution

Pillow Wad is an animal feed and bedding manufacturer based in Northamptonshire, UK. They contacted Impact for a hay dust control and material transfer solution to move the hay from point A to B to make their packing process more streamlined and clean.

Our solution:
In order to control the dust created by the hay, we designed bespoke collection hoods that would securely fit to the existing bale breaker and packing points as well as two housekeeping points in the bagging area.

For the total volume of 18400m³/h (total of dust system and transfer line), on hay/straw dust we installed a filter, with total fitration area of 181m² operating at a filtration velocity of 1.7m/min, complete with drop out chamber, explosion relief (ST1) hopper with screw conveyor. To allow for housekeeping, we installed two pneumatically controlled manual slide valves that close off the dust pickups from the bale breaker and give this air volume to the two pickups in the bagging area.

A bespoke design material capture hood was fitted to the discharge of the bale breaker to collect the hay. The hay is separated from the air stream and passes under gravity to the packaging line inlet hopper.

Will Peel, Managing Director at Pillow Wad, commented on the installation:

“We were really struggling with the large amount of dust that was generated by the hay in our facility. We also wanted to manage the dropped hay that is created during our processes, and now with the bespoke system Impact has installed, both issues have been successfully addressed.

We received a great service and fantastic solution!”

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