Glass

Glass production generates significant amounts of fine, abrasive dust—especially silica-rich particles- during the handling of raw materials like sand, soda ash, limestone, and cullet. These particles pose serious health risks such as silicosis and respiratory issues. Effective filtration ensures worker safety, prevents equipment wear, maintains product purity, and enables compliance with environmental regulations requiring capture efficiencies up to 99.9%

Dust from glass crushing and handling is extremely abrasive and chemically inert, while silica content makes it carcinogenic at microscopic sizes. Cullet dust is highly irregular and abrasive, accelerating filter media wear and necessitating robust inlet design, heavy-duty hoppers, and air flow management to prevent rapid degradation of filter bags or cartridges .

Glass facilities typically employ fabric filters (baghouses) to achieve high-efficiency particulate control. In applications involving high temperatures or heavy silica abrasiveness, durable baghouse systems with abrasion-resistant media or cartridge-type collectors may be preferred. For processes generating acid gases or volatile emissions, supplementary wet scrubbers may be required.