Wilhelm Beth from Lubeck patented 3 filter designs that he had pioneered to eliminate dust from the air. He certainly is the father of the dust collector and the creator of dust collector history. Wilhelm Beth constructed hose filters at his first job but soon gave that up and turned entirely to the construction of filter apparatuses. These soon appreared in grain mills and also in hard crushing factories for industries such as cement. These places recognized that the air in their workrooms could be remarkably improved with them and so began the fight against dust disease. At the beginning of the 1890s, Beth began building exhausts of his own construction. Its filter systems have found their way into almost all industries, and WTL Beth has become a world-wide company whose products have been known both inside and outside Europe.
A system that enhances the quality of the air it emits from industrial and commercial processes is a dust collector. It works by removing dust and other impurities from the air. It retrieves valuable solids that could otherwise be lost to the atmosphere.
Five main types of dust collectors are:
•Inertial separators
•Fabric filters
•Unit collectors
•Electrostatic precipitators
•Wet scrubbers
Although it has been a long time since the dust collector’s initial invention, it is still a key staple of workshops all over the world. Without them and the safety they provide to workshops, we would be stuggling with all sorts of health issues all over the globe. We cannot be thank Wilhelm Beth enough for his contribution to the world and the construction industry.
