Centralised vacuum cleaning system

Cleaning solutions expert, BVC, has recently completed an installation for a major cereal producer at one of its UK production facilities, positioning a centralised vacuum cleaning system within a raw materials silo/processing building.

The customer stipulated that dust levels were minimised to meet the requirements of the area classification under the ATEX Directive, and cleanliness met the stringent requirements for the manufacture of foodstuffs. The system also had to serve a number of floor levels with the collection of product to a central location for ease of disposal.

The BVC solution takes the form of a single operator system using 51mm bore flexible hose and tools suitable for removing organic grain dusts and small granulate. The 8 point system serves numerous floors from the silo tops, silo discharge, processing and sieving equipment down to the ground floor where product is transferred to production employing blow pots.