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Plastoquímica brings expertise in design, construction and installation of systems of ventilation for industry

Industrial ventilation

María Escribano
Drafting QU01/02/2006

Technological applications in which it is necessary to renew the air due to various factors such as the presence of toxic or annoying compounds, a temperature or excessive humidity, the presence of impurities or dust, explosive or flammable agents are given in the industry, etc. A very broad area in which Plastoquímica offers extensive experience in installations and industrial ventilation, from the study of the catchment and the design of the conduits of aspiration to the project, construction, Assembly and commissioning.

Industrial ventilation is the technique that allows to replace the ambient air inside an enclosed space that is considered inconvenient by another outside of best features.

Technological applications where it is necessary to renew the air due to various factors such as the presence of toxic or annoying compounds, a temperature or excessive humidity, the presence of dust and impurities, the existence of explosive or flammable agents are given in the industry, etc. Depending the nature of that application, the provision of equipment and the element to ventilate, must choose the most suitable ventilation technique: or environmental ventilation or ventilation located.

In the case of the environmental vents, provided air spreads by all the local before reaching the exit. On the other hand, if there is a specific pollutant source, general ventilation propagate the pollutant for all local; therefore must be captured the pollutant directly in their origin, through a direct take of the focus or installing hoods or tops of catchment.

The experience in ventilation

Throughout his career, Plastoquímica has designed, built and installed hundreds of installations and ventilation systems. His extensive experience in the design of the different variants of ventilation (environmental or localized) enable them to face complex problems with the confidence to offer the most appropriate to each case solution.

Plastoquímica has been successfully installed ventilation systems in sectors as diverse as the industry pharmaceutical, and chemical treatment of surfaces, graphic arts, painting and galvanic industries and colorants, food industry, sewage waste water, composting and waste treatment plants, etc.

All the wealth of knowledge and experiences allow them to project the facilities with the guarantee of finding the best technical response to the problems of its clients. Facilities planned by its technical specialists respond to issues as varied as corrosive or alkaline gases, dust or particles in suspension, sprays or mists of oils and drill, clouds of steam, hot gases, combustible or flammable agents, etc.

To do this, the facilities can be designed in different materials: technical plastics such as PP, PPs, FRP, etc., or in steel carbon or stainless. And with different configurations of pumps (axial, centrifugal,) of roof, always in the material appropriate to the application.

Components for industrial ventilation facilities

Plastoquímica is a company with a long experience in the manufacture of corrosion-proof plastic fans that stand out for their studied aerodynamic design, high performance and excellent quality of construction:

Flow rate from 500 to 100,000 m3/h
Static pressure up to 6000 Pa

His fans have been developed and designed to work with highly corrosive fluids in terms of a long-term and permanent service. In doing so they are entirely built in thermoplastic materials such as PVC, PP, PPs, PVDF, PEHD and with a quality standard which sets a reference in the market.

The company has, also, of all kinds of injected and manufactured ventilation Accessories:

Pipe, elbows, tees, rigid or flexible sleeves, butterflies of manual and automatic regulation, flanges, etc.
In diameters from 110 mm to 2,000 mm

All accessories are designed to satisfy the most demanding requirements and obtain the best yields in ventilation facilities.

Environmental ventilation

When you want to perform an environmental ventilation at a local take into account the type of activity that takes place in it, as well as the harmful or disturbing element to eliminate. With these premises will determine the appropriate number of renewals per hour of local air. Once estimated the flow of air and static pressure will select the type of fan and material of manufacture. In certain applications, the design of a collector of abstraction that facilitates a more uniform aspiration by the local may be necessary. Environmental ventilation may be performed by depression if the exhaustor removes the air from the local or overpressure if fan infused new air to it.

Localized ventilation

When there is a specific pollutant source, it is much more effective and economical to capture the broadcast locally. The catchment can be made directly from the computer or machine or by either hoods or tops. Depending on the catchment system used shall be the flow that allows to create a minimum suction to ensure the drag and the conduct of the air with the contaminant (solid, gas or aerosol). According to this flow, duct network will be designed to the extractor which, in turn, will be determined from the loss of the ducts.

Plastoquímica: clean air, only that

Plastoquímica is one of the leading companies in Europe in the field of cleaning the air. Its activity focuses on the following lines of action: ventilation of toxic and corrosive gases, washing and cleansing of toxic gases, fumes and mists, liquid aerosols, VOCs, separation of particles via dry and via wet, elimination of odours and biological treatments of the air.

They started activity in 1963 as one of the pioneers in Spain in the application of the thermoplastic materials in the galvanoplástica and chemical industry.

The construction of equipment and installations in thermoplastic materials is their own workshops, specialty, both for its quality and technology and its ability to what has made them one of the first processing of iron and thermoplastic tubes from all over Europe.

It has two centres of production with an area of 6,000 m² equipped with the best technologies of manufacture and highly qualified staff.

From 1973 the society was oriented specifically to the field of air pollution from industrial emissions.