Carbon Fibre Cutting & Grinding Booth
Solution: Environmental Control Booth Client: Performance Car Manufacturer Woking The Client manufactures high performance road cars and Formula 1 racing cars UK. MECHON was commissioned to design an environmental control booth (ECB) to control dusts and fumes generated during the cutting and grinding of carbon fibre components within the research and development department. The design remit proved very restrictive when considering space limitations, ATEX, noise control, and lighting. The final concept design resulted in an environmental dust control booth with three-stage filtration—absolute filters being used on the final stage. The selection of disposable filters meant that no explosion relief or suppression is required. A series of mixed flow fans were utilised to achieve a cross flow velocity of 0.7m/s . Mixed flow fans are used to ensure a continued booth operation even with high dust loading on the filter elements. The filtered air is re-circulated back into the room after attenuation through splitter type silencers, ensuring that noise…