The Nederman MCP Smartfilter installation at Peute Group ranks among one of the largest in Europe.
With a capacity of 70,000 m³ air/hour, the Nederman MCP Smartfilter installation at the paper and plastic recycler, Peute Group, in the Netherlands ranks among one of the largest in Europe. Peute Group, has consciously chosen Nederman’s ATEX installations for its new, climate-neutral construction in Alblasserdam, Netherlands, and according to them, due to Nederman’s premium quality and the products’ safe and energy efficient advantages.
Peute Group recently moved their facility in the Netherlands, from Dordrecht to Rapenburg in Alblasserdam after sixty years. On the new 6-hectare site with the headquarters and a 36,000 m² production space, Peute Group is now capable of processing and preparing over 1.5 million tons of paper and plastic for recycling annually. However, a significant amount of explosive paper dust is released during sorting and processing and Peute Group were in need of proper dust extraction to create a safe, healthy and efficient workplace. Peute Group extensively researched the market to determine the right dust extraction solution and Nederman’s ATEX expertise played a crucial role in their decision. Peute mirrored Nederman’s installation against prevailing guidelines by an external ATEX specialist and as a result, some other parties were excluded from participating in the decision-making process early on.
The choice fell on Nederman and the solution became one of the largest installations in Europe – the MCP SmartFilter with a capacity of 70,000 m³ air/hour, divided into two installations, one for each paper sorting machine. Each installation extracts airborne dust from different points of the process, creating a healthy environment for the employees. The paper dust is captured and filtered, and clean air is blown outside. Larger particles settle to the bottom and are conveyed by a screw conveyor to big bags for re-use.
As in all operations with combustible dust, it´s crucial to minimise the risks for explosions. All suction channels was therefore equipped with an explosionproof backdraft damper and the bottoms of the filters have ATEX-protected rotary valves. The filter housing itself has an explosion relief panel with a flame arrestor which in case of an error, only releases the pressure wave, not the flame.
Energy consumption was also taken into consideration and frequency converters on the fans ensure lower energy consumption and at the same time maintain the desired constant negative pressure.
Nederman Insight, Nedermans cloud based software for filtration analytics and alarms was chosen to provide the Peute Group service organisation constant data contact with the filter installation for proactive service or quickly respond to any malfunctions.
We looked at which companies are large enough and produce themselves and deliberately chose to work with a premium supplier with all the expertise in-house. Also in terms of ATEX explosion safety, as paper dust is indeed explosive. And that’s Nederman in a nutshell.
Without proper extraction, you can’t see a thing.Now the immense paper department is nearly completely dust-free. The Nederman filter installation is doing its job and it even does it in complete silence” - Rudolf Peute, Operational manager Peute Group.
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