What is a smoke eater welding?
Welding smoke eaters are required in commercial and industrial applications to capture harmful fumes, gases, smoke, and other airborne contaminants before reaching breathing zones.
What is a fume extraction system?
A fume extractor is a system that utilizes a fan using negative draft to pull fumes and dust particles in to a contained filtration system. This process removes hazardous particles from the air.
How do you control welding fumes?
You can control risks to health from welding fumes by:
- using alternative cold joining techniques.
- welding in a way that produces less fume.
- local exhaust ventilation (LEV)
- using respiratory protective equipment (RPE) and personal protective equipment (PPE)
- maintaining control measures and good general ventilation.
Are welders required to wear respirators?
Welders with facial hair must shave or use certain powered or supplied air respirators. Even one-day stubble can cause tight fitting respirators to leak significantly. Not all respirators are flame and spark resistant. Welders should select a respirator recommended for welding.
Do you need solder fume extractor?
Soldering activities produce fumes that are dangerous and toxic. They can cause serious long term health problems if inhaled for long. If you love soldering and can’t just stop, then you should seriously consider a solder fume extractor to extract the fumes while soldering.
What is a solder fume extractor?
Soldering fume extractors absorb soldering fume and removing flux fumes from soldering workbenches. Find extractors for heavy-duty needs.
What is the best fume extraction system for welding?
Portable fume extraction system designed specifically for welding. This system is ideal for contractors, maintenance and repair, and light fabrication. Mobile fume extraction systems designed specifically for welding.
What is a fixed welding fume system?
A fixed welding fume system consists of the installation of a series of galvanized pipes that collect hazardous fumes through their hood. Once these fumes have been collected, the hood conveys them to a chute or terminal to expel them from the workplace.
What are the different types of welding fumes?
Welding can be classified into two main groups: fusion (heat alone) or pressure (heat and pressure) welding. Welding fumes can be extremely hazardous to employees, as metal welding fumes may contain metal particles such as aluminum, arsenic, cobalt, copper, iron, lead, manganese, nickel, silver, tin, titanium, zinc and more.
How are fume exhaust systems collected?
In both types of extraction systems, the fumes are efficiently collected by articulated arms, hoods, filters or extracting benches. At Bisco Enterprise, we’re proud to offer a quality selection of fume exhaust system parts and extraction kits.