Industrial processes like machining, grinding, and milling produce oil mist when fluids come in contact with tooling components, and become dispersed throughout the air. Such oil mist not only affects the machine parts, but also impacts the health of the workers and others in the premises. To resolve all such issues, mist collectors are used. Mist collectors ensure overall shop safety and employee health, while also reducing maintenance and downtime.
Oil mist collectors ensure overall shop safety
Even in enclosed machines, oil mist can escape when opening the door, while loading raw materials and removing finished parts. This escaped oil mist can land on nearby surfaces like walls, floors, counters, and lighting. This increases the need for housekeeping, as it causes cleanliness concerns and slipping hazards. And, if there is any kind of fire or spark around, it can also result in creating a fire hazard.
Oil mist collectors ensure employee health
When oil mist touches the skin, it can result in itchy skin, rashes, blisters, cracks, redness, and appearance of bumps. This may then lead to severe complications. Similarly, if the oil mist is inhaled, it can cause respiratory irritations, shortness of breath, vomiting, headache, fatigue, and burning sensation in the mouth, throat, or stomach. It may also cause long-term or lasting respiratory conditions like asthma, chronic bronchitis, chronic cough, lung impairment, lung damage, airway irritation, and also heart damage. Although rare, oil mist inhalation can also cause cancer of the rectum, larynx, skin, pancreas, scrotum, and bladder. An oil mist collector can thus reduce all such damages related to oil mist inhalation and contact.
Oil mist collectors reduce maintenance and downtime
Machines that lack proper mist collectors create common and recurring maintenance problems of parts like circuit boards, control panels, fans, cooling system filters, and tooling parts. It begins with the dirt and humidity damaging the circuit boards, and clogging up cooling system filters. Once the cooling system filters start to clog, the airflow becomes blocked, which results in system failure or other performance issues. The cooling system is responsible for protecting valuable electronic components like power supplies, monitors, drives, and control systems. If the cooling system does not work properly, the temperature rises, causing the electronic components to damage, and failing to operate properly. Going further, oil mist can seep into the coolant pump systems, creating bacteria that can deteriorate seals on the motor pumps. Also, dirty coolants can corrode the metal surfaces, leading to tool degradation and declining quality of the parts. Oil mist can also clog filters and coils in air conditioning and HVAC systems. Properly controlling oil mist with the help of an oil mist collector can reduce the need for maintenance, and allows production to continue on schedule. Thus, money can be saved with the reduction of the need for replacement parts and technician visits.
Hence, if you want to ensure the safety of your workplace and your employees, while also reducing the time and costs spent on maintenance, you must install Mistkiller, the trademarked oil mist collector from Powertech Pollution Controls Pvt. Ltd., that is high on efficiency, designed and developed to control most types of mist, generated by the use of water-based coolants or water-based liquids.
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