CAMCORP & ETHANOL

The Vital Importance of Dust Collection

and Bulk Material Handling for the Ethanol Industry

Ethanol Applications

Here are common Ethanol applications where CAMCORP has extensive experience:

Receiving & Storage

Almost all dust found in a grain elevator or facility is created at the grain receiving pits. Dust generated by elevator legs, transfer points, and scale bins can be ducted to a single fabric dust collector to reduce housekeeping and the chance of an explosion. Ducting a dust collector to a dryer is also recommended. When grain is emptied into storage bins and silos, dust is created as the air is displaced as the storage vessel is filled. Bin vents installed on top of these bins collect the dust as it’s created.

Truck and Railcar Loading and Unloading
Grain Storage and Transfer
Grain Receiving
Grain pre-cleaning

Dry Grinding of Corn

As the corn is needed for further processing, it is conveyed to screeners, separators, aspirators, stoners, and scourers all of which create dust that can be ducted to a single or multiple dust collector(s). Maximize DDGS yield from the hammermill with a dust collector and pneumatically convey it back to the process.

Screening and Separating
Destoning and Scouring
Hammermill Grinding

DDGS Loadout, Cooling, and Storage

A dust collector is critical when loading DDGS into silos, bins, or hoppers. A fine dust cloud is created and a properly sized dust collector for the application will minimize dust from areas that are not rated for combustible dust. In addition to fire and ignition safety, CAMCORP can help to mitigate the loud noise that is created from pneumatic conveyor blowers by providing a blower package complete with a sound enclosure.

DDGS cooling interim storage
Transferring of large amounts of co-products

Project Profiles: CAMCORP Ethanol Projects

Ethanol Receiving System

Industry: Ethanol
Application: Receiving System
Product Collected: Grain Dust
Air Volume: 41,800 CFM
Cleaning Mechanism: Low Pressure Reverse Air Cleaning with Rotating Arm
Air to Media Ratio: 9.4 to 1
Operating Temp.: Ambient
Special Features:
– Explosion Vents
– High Entry Inlet with Internal Baffles
– Screw Conveyor Discharge with Slave Driven Airlock

Ethanol Grinding System

Industry: Ethanol
Application: Grinding System
Product Collected: Ground Corn Dust
Air Volume: 27,350 CFM
Cleaning Mechanism: Low Pressure Reverse Air Cleaning with Rotating Arm
Air to Media Ratio: 7.25 to 1
Operating Temp.: Ambient
Special Features:
– Explosion Vents
– High Entry Inlet with Internal Baffles
– Pneumatic Conveying Take-Away System

Ethanol Grinding System Collector

Industry: Ethanol
Application: Grinding System Collector
Product Collected: Ground Corn Dust
Air Volume: 28,000 CFM
Cleaning Mechanism: Low Pressure Reverse Air Cleaning with Rotating Arm
Air to Media Ratio: 7.6 to 1
Operating Temp.: Ambient
Special Features:
– Explosion Vents
– High Entry Inlet with Internal Baffles
– Customer’s Paint Spec

Filter Receiver Dried Distillers Grain with Solubles (DDGS)

Industry: Ethanol
Application: Filter/Receiver
Product Collected: Dried Distillers Grain with Solubles (DDGS)
Air Volume: 28,200 CFM
Cleaning Mechanism: Low Pressure Reverse Air Cleaning with Rotating Arm
Air to Media Ratio: 4.8 to 1
Operating Temp.: Ambient
Special Features:
– Cleaning Fan Located Outside of the Clean Air Plenum
– Explosion Vents
– Involute Inlet w/Internal Deflector Cone & Vortex Breakers
– Customer’s Paint Spec for Service Platforms and Handrails

Best Equipment for Ethanol Dust Collection and Bulk Material Handling

Air pollution control solutions for Ethanol producers. CAMCORP helps to keep your facility safe from harmful dust accumulations that can have a negative impact on meeting your delivery goals and customer satisfaction.

Pulse Jet Baghouse

CAMCORP is best known for manufacturing highly specialized Pulse Jet Baghouses including high-pressure, high-vacuum, and explosion-containment designs. CAMCORP also offers a complete range of standard Pulse Jet Baghouses with styles ranging from bottom or top loading bags to walk-in clean air plenums with a variety of inlet configurations.

All welded heavy-duty construction
Structural supports engineered for location
Pressure/vacuum rating +/- 20” W.C. or as required
Standard materials of construction: carbon steel, stainless steel, and special alloys
Standard electrical: NEMA 4 timer and solenoid enclosures, or as required
On-demand cleaning timer board
Instrumentation for remote monitoring
Explosion venting suppression per NFPA 68
OSHA approved service platforms
Paint: standard white or envirogreen industrial 2-part epoxy

camcorp-cartridge-camairo-dust-collector

Vertical Cartridge CAM-AIRO™

The CAMCORP CAM-AIRO is uniquely engineered to solve nearly all dry dust
and fume collection challenges. The vertical design of the CAM-AIRO cartridge
collector optimizes virtually 100% of the filter media area, unlike horizontal designs that can sacrifice nearly 30% of the filter media area over time.

All welded heavy-duty construction
Housing rated for: +/- 25” W.C.
Interior dirty air plenum primed
Exterior primed and finished standard white or envirogreen industrial 2-part epoxy
Cartridge elements factory installed
Standard 80/20 cellulose/synthetic blend filter media
Access ladders and service platforms
NEMA 4 electrical enclosures
Explosion venting or suppression
On-demand pulse cleaning optional

Reverse Air

Reverse Air models HVP™ (Medium Pressure) & SWF™ (Low Pressure) dust collector series are the premium choice for processing and manufacturing industries where high air volumes and heavy dust loading are common.

The CAMCORP reverse air dust collector requires no plant compressed air. CAMCORP leads the industry with the most standard sizes and customize-able configurations available to solve virtually all dust collection challenges. Capacities range to over 250,000 CFM.

camcorp stainless steel ddgs ethanol dust collector

Bin Vents

Bin vents by CAMCORP have the features and benefits of a pulse jet baghouse and cartridge filter collectors. Bin vents do not typically incorporate a hopper, but instead are mounted on top of dust generating equipment such as silos, mixers, scale hoppers, and mechanical conveyors. Instead of discharging the captured dust into a hopper, when using CAMCORP bin vents, the pulse-cleaned dust falls directly back into the process equipment it has been mounted to. A CAMCORP bin vent dust collector is also designed to meet critical combustible dust standards and can include OSHA approved service platforms and ladders. The filtering system can be designed to use bags and cages, or cartridges, or tailored to fit your application.

Correct selection of filter media to meet the application requirements
NEMA 4, 4X, 7, 9 or 12 electrical enclosures on all collectors
Explosion venting per NFPA 68
Paint selected for the application
On-demand cleaning timer board
Instrumentation for remote monitoring
OSHA approved service platforms

Pneumatic Conveying
& Bulk material handling

Pneumatic conveying is essential for automating manual processes that improve production efficiency, provide quality control and reduce labor costs.

Dilute phase pneumatic conveying
Filter Receivers
Bag dump stations
Airlocks
Blower packages
Central vacuum system
Bulk bag unloader
Negative airlift