Wood Dust Collection Resources
The library is still being written. Rather than pad this page out, here is exactly what is planned, and where the answers already live on the site while you wait for them.
Nothing published here yet.
This is a new site and the resource library is genuinely empty. There are no articles behind this page, nothing to browse, and no archive to search. Saying so plainly is more useful than filling the space with stock photographs and invented publication dates.
What will appear here is narrow by design: practical engineering notes for the people who specify, install and live with wood dust collection systems. Sizing arithmetic, duct velocity, how filter media actually behaves in service, and compliance written in plain language rather than standard-speak.
Planned topics.
These are the topics we are writing first. None of them are published yet, so nothing below is a link. If one of these is the question you have today, call and ask it instead of waiting.
Sizing a system from a machine list
How a list of machines and a simultaneity figure become an extraction requirement, and why totalling every port overspecifies the fan.
Duct velocity for chips and fines
Why the same duct can fail in two opposite directions, and what happens to a branch when velocity drops below the transport threshold.
NFPA 664 in plain language
What the wood processing standard actually asks of a plant, which parts touch the collector, and which parts are about housekeeping.
When filter media blinds
Bag, sleeve and cartridge service life under real wood loads, and why adhesive from a bander shortens all three.
Returning filtered air indoors
The heating argument for recirculation, what has to be true about filtration before you do it, and when to exhaust outside anyway.
A commissioning checklist
What to measure and sign off before a new system is accepted, from static pressure readings to operator training.
No publication dates are shown because none of these have one yet. This page will change when that stops being true.
Wood dust collection resources that already exist.
Most of what an article would tell you is already written into the equipment and application pages, where it sits beside the units it describes. Filter blinding, for instance, is dealt with under edge bander dust collection, and the indoor and outdoor split is laid out across the indoor dust collector range.
Cannot wait for the article?
Ask the question directly. An engineer will answer it on the phone, and if the answer needs to be measured rather than described, the factory visit is free.