Improving an EAF Air Pollution Control System Using New Filter Technologies
(Room 406)
06 May 19
2:00 PM
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2:30 PM
Tracks:
Environmental/Electric Steelmaking
A major Midwest USA steel mill was suffering from a combination of excessive bag failures and high flow resistance through their Pulse Jet baghouse filter. Working together with the OEM and their new bag supplier, this plant used a combination of collector modifications, creative monitoring strategies, baghouse optimization operations and proactive failure analyses to reduce resistance and minimize failures. This paper will explore typical problems in pulse jet collectors that must be addressed when using high-performance ePTFE membrane filters, and effective ways to minimize, control, or eliminate those problems to improve performance and total cost of ownership.