DUST COLLECTOR

The DustHog® SFC is a proven, high-quality downward flow cartridge dust collection system. With its patented pulse cleaning technology, greater air capacity and quick and easy maintenance, there’s no better air filtration method for your manufacturing facility.

Our SFC unit removes harmful pollutants resulting from common manufacturing processes — such as grinding, welding, buffing and sanding. The result: a safer, cleaner environment for your employees. By using our SFC unit, you’re virtually eliminating air quality concerns in the workplace. Plus, you’re ensuring increased employee productivity, fewer absences and illnesses, more efficient cleaning, and significant operational savings.

A Wide Range Of Applications

The high-performance SFC unit is ideal for all your dust and fume collection needs. Filtering out the polluted air that commonly occurs within a manufacturing environment, SFC’s many industrial applications include grinding, welding, buffing, sanding, smelting, bulk powder handling, and more. Plus, our design allows for field expandability — so you can add modules and increase the capacity of your system at any time.

Patented Pulse Cleaning Technology

At the heart of the SFC system is the industry’s most advanced pulse cleaning system technology. In designing the SFC unit, Parker Hannifin engineers used Computational Fluid Dynamics computer modeling to develop the most effective system that “pulses off” dust from the filter — greatly improving the cartridge cleaning power. Utilizing an optimized nozzle and venturi, air is pulsed at a precisely calculated distance through an unobstructed airway. The result: increased pulse cleaning energy, lower pressure drop and longer cartridge life. Plus, our patented pulse system cleans the full length of the cartridge. These unique, proprietary features assure years of dependable, efficient and cost effective performance.

Extended Cartridge Life with More Power & Less Energy

Unlike competitors, the SFC system uses external filter tracks to support the filters instead of “yokes” that interfere with cleaning. This allows for unobstructed airflow and increased cleaning power with less energy. By designing the SFC with optimized cabinets that broaden the space between cartridges and sidewalls, we ensured lower velocities and reduced cartridge abrasion. The result: dramatically increased cartridge life.

Discover the Difference in Performance and Value

DustHog is a name synonymous with high quality and performance driven solutions for industrial filtration needs. Our customers realize improved reliability and decreased operational costs with our industry leading product portfolio in dust collection media technology and collector design. Our engineers study the full solution, designing and testing to ensure the filter media, product construction and filter cleaning technology found in the equipment are optimized to work in tandem, leveraging the features and technology of each to ensure the final solution delivers the best possible dust collection remedy.

We are at the forefront of technology and innovation; we develop and manufacture proprietary filter media technologies using our advanced research capabilities to ensure the latest developments are in our filters. We offer superior filtration solutions including Protura nanofiber, Preveil® ePTFE membrane, and media treatments and coatings along with half of a century of industry expertise to ensure the filter you select is the most appropriate and effective for your application and business needs.

Quality

Our replacement filters are manufactured to the highest standards, our Quality Management System at ISO 9001:2008. Our products are performance certified by 3rd party testing services. You can trust our products will perform reliably. Why risk using a commodity filter that may diminish the value of your equipment, waste time / money and put workers at risk.

We are committed to the following principles:

• Customer Focus – Meeting your needs through quality filtration systems and service.
• Integrity and Compliance – Strict adherence to all statutory, regulatory, and customer requirements.
• Quality Management System – Safety, quality, reliability and service; with a drive for continual improvement with our industry expertise and your feedback.
• Engagement – We are engaged and committed to improving quality performance.

Protura® Advanced Nanofiber Cartridge Filters

All SFC Series dust collectors come with the industry’s best performing, most efficient standard cartridge filter. Independently certified at MERV 15*, Protura Advanced Nanofiber cartridge filters last 50% longer than commodity filters, and are nearly 50% more efficient on sub-micron dust particles than MERV 13 filters.

Protura Advanced Nanofiber Filtration technology is proven to achieve higher efficiency, cleaner air, lower pressure drop, longer filter life and greater energy savings than any other standard cartridge filter media. And, when used with the SFC Series dust collector, the advantages quickly add up to unsurpassed bottom-line savings—the most efficient and best value dust collector available for industrial air cleaning processes today.

Surface Loading Is Key

Protura Advanced Nanofiber filters feature a special surface treatment of synthetic fibers so extremely fine, they are measured in fractions of a micron (nanometers). This ultra-thin layer traps dust and fume particulate on the surface of the filter before it can embed deeper in the media—leading to better cleaning efficiency with fewer pulses and significantly less compressed air use.

Our Protura Advanced Nanofiber filters (MERV 15) are more than 85% efficient in capturing sub-micron particles from a contaminated air stream. In contrast, conventional cartridge filters, or 80/20 cellulose filters (MERV 8-10), are not capable of capturing such small particles and often require the additional use of a costly HEPA filter to ensure a safe breathing environment. This adds to overall filter cost and system upkeep.

Invest In The Best

A cartridge dust collector is an important investment that impacts the performance of plant equipment and the health of your employees. To yield the best return and provide the safest work environment possible, it’s important to choose a dust collector that utilizes an optimized pulse cleaning system to reap the full benefits of a nanofiber filter.

The Result is:

Less Energy Use

The SFC’s patented pulse cleaning system actually uses less compressed air—a costly but necessary utility expense. This is achieved through the combination of increased power behind each pulse blast and the superior surface-loading ability of nanofiber filters. Each cleaning cycle is much more effective in removing dust from cartridge filters than other downflow collectors.

Longer Filter Life

With less pulsing needed to clean surface-loading nanofiber cartridges, stress on the filters is minimized, resulting in double the filter life of a commodity filter.

A Smaller Dust Collection System Footprint

The combination of the SFC’s patented pulse cleaning system and nanofiber cartridge filters also allow for higher air-to-media ratios, potentially reducing the size of the dust collector and number of cartridges needed for your facility—a significant cost savings overall.

Advanced Nanofiber at 600x

80/20 Cellulose at 600x

Protura nanofiber surface treatment provides an ultra-thin, web-like coating

* Minimum Efficiency Reporting Value (MERV) is based on ASHRAE Standard 52.2-1999, and has been deemed the most accurate scale for determining a filter’s efficiency and ability to filter submicron dust particles. MERV 15 efficiency has been tested per this standard by independent lab testing.

What is Protura?

Protura is a proven filter technology. Protura has lower DP out of the box and over the life of the filter, higher dust holding capacity before pulsing is required, which means fewer pulsing cycles over the life of the filter, lower emissions and ultimately, longer filter life.

• Superior surface-loading technology to enhance dust cake release, leading to extended filter life.
• Capture of highly-respirable, submicron particles and reduction of dust collector emissions for cleaner and safer workplace air.
• Advanced manufacturing process that strengthens the media pleats, keeping them more open while delivering lower pressure drop and improved pulse cleaning.
• Durable base sheet that features a proprietary synthetic blend offering some resistance to moisture and abrasion.
• Fire Retardant construction offering an additional layer of safety per UL900.

Protura nanofiber surface layer at 600x magnification

Protura nanofiber surface media loaded with ISO fine test dust

Commodity depth media loaded with ISO fine test dust

Surface Loading Excels Over Depth Loading

Generic filters allow particulate to embed deep within the substrate, making them more difficult to clean. Unlike filters made with Protura, these depth-loading filters have large spaces or pores within their base media fibers which allow particles to penetrate deep within the media substrate increasing pressure drop. Subsequently, they plug at a faster rate requiring more frequent cleaning which leads to increased abrasion, wear and reduced filter life. Some generic filters include surface treatments; however their coatings form layers 100 times thicker (or more) than Protura nanofiber thus creating additional depth-loading layers which further decreases filter life.

Protura nanofiber, therefore, acts as a shield to prevent submicron sized particles from entering and becoming embedded within the filter’s substrate media. As a result, dust particles are easily released from the surface layer while the media substrate remains clean leading to fewer cleaning cycles required, lower pressure drop, reduced outlet emissions and increased filter life.

*Nanofiber technology independently proven to achieve higher initial efficiency, cleaner air, lower pressure drop and greater energy savings than commodity filter media.

Dramatic Savings and Value

Protura nanofiber filters deliver outstanding performance and quality to which the results are well documented and time proven. Protura fire retardant nanofiber offers dramatic savings and value:

• Double the Filter Life Means Half the Cost. Lower pressure drop and fewer pulse cleaning cycles result in up to double the life.
• Compressed Air Savings. Compressed air usage is significantly less because dust on the Protura filters is easily dislodged during pulse cleaning cycles. The dust remains on the nanofiber surface layer and does not embed within the media base substrate.
• Energy Savings. Exceptional surface-loading capability dramatically reduces pressure build up resulting in reduced energy requirements to operate your system.
• Cleaner Air. MERV 15 efficiency, reduced pressure drop and fewer cleaning cycles result in significantly reduced outlet emissions from system operation and a healthier work environment.

**We have the most comprehensive selection of industrial filtration products and systems in the market. We have options and do not force fit products. Our technology and solutions combined with our technical expertise allow us to provide you with systems that perform for your unique application.

Understanding MERV Ratings

The industry’s most accurate test method to measure a cartridge filter’s efficiency is ASHRAE 52.2, which is the method for testing general ventilation air-cleaning devices for removal efficiency by particle size. Using this benchmark, filters are assigned a MERV (Minimum Efficiency Reporting Value) rating to determine how well they capture dust based on particle size. The higher the MERV rating, the more efficient the filter is at removing smaller particulate.

Although MERV is important, it can also be misleading. A filter may achieve a high MERV rating but result in higher pressure drop. So be aware of filters that use restrictive surface layers to boost efficiency as they ultimately lead to an increase in pressure and frequent filter replacement.

Protura nanofiber cartridge filters not only offer a MERV 15 rating but also deliver the ultimate combination of high efficiency, low operating costs and longer filter life.