Schubert Environmental Equipment

05/07/2025

Check out our second podcast with Dust Safety Science. We're talking about wet dust collection systems and how they address the unique challenges of low-density material dust.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/12lWQHUqdTt7FgGbv0rKCu

For more information, go to: www.dustsafetyscience.com

05/02/2025

Check out a podcast we did with Dust Safety Science, discussing the benefits of wet dust collection for combustible materials.
Episode one of two!

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6RNO1YoI1zuFi95gtvso6J?si=ff05a381e3724417&nd=1&dlsi=daf78da8774d4d72

For more information on the great research of Dust Safety Science, go to: www.dustsafetyscience.com

05/01/2025

Schubert Environmental Equipment’s Wet Dust Collection Systems are widely regarded for their safety and operational benefits when dealing with combustible metal dust, such as aluminum, magnesium, and titanium. One key advantage is the immediate suppression of sparks, hot particles, or reactive material through water. This feature is particularly critical for white metals, which are known for their high flammability and explosion risks.

Unlike dry dust collection systems, which require numerous safety features, such as explosion relief dampers, spark detection sensors, and heat monitoring systems, wet dust collection systems inherently mitigate these risks

05/01/2025

Listen to our Podcast with Dust Safety Science as we discuss Schubert Environmental Equipment’s Wet Dust Collection Systems. They are widely regarded for their safety and operational benefits when dealing with combustible metal dust, such as aluminum, magnesium, and titanium. One key advantage is the immediate suppression of sparks, hot particles, or reactive material through water. This feature is particularly critical for white metals, which are known for their high flammability and explosion risks.

03/28/2025

03/17/2025

HYDROAIR FOR LOW MASS DENSITY PARTICULATE THAT HAS A SLOW DESCENDING RATES – THE HOPPER UNIT WITH TAP OFF PUMP

A situation that is seldom considered in Wet Collectors is the advantages of using a Wet Collector on lightweight particulates (low mass density) such as non-solvent food dust or similar.

These Explosive Dust Applications have long been controlled by Dry Collectors, which require complicated and expensive Conflagration Control Systems such as heat and spark sensors, along with associated more expensive relief dampers and sprinkler/flooding systems.

Many of these are left off or not maintained and thus, there is just the wait for a potential fire or explosion, as compared to the instant safety of a Wet Collector that will not have that issue.
A diaphragm pump, continuously run at very low levels, will keep the particulate from building up and allow this effluent at low levels into a Municipal Sewer or a simple water filter unit.

03/04/2025

DOUBLE HOPPER DUAL PUMP OUT OR CONTINUOUS TAP OFF ON FOOD DUSTS

A food manufacturer and packager had just returned a cartridge unit that had failed quickly (blocking and stopping self-cleaning the cartridges) with the dry and/or sticky dust application of their production. A stainless steel impeller design Wet Scrubber Collector would be the best option to address the explosion and fire potential, and a HydroAIR with it’s always full Stainless Steel Construction and the new Patent using Insertable Scrub Modules was a great plus for maintenance requirements with the ease of total “Empty Out” of the internal components.

Additionally, the double Hopper Design gave much steeper Hopper Angles (for accumulating sludge material) to the twin pump outs. Most important was the capability of “Tap Off” small gpm amounts that would be required for the low mass density dusts that would continually present in the scrub water.

It was a very successful job for HydroAIR and demonstrated the new food dust capability with the Patent design.

10/18/2024

ULTRA WET DOWNDRAFT HYDROAIR® TABLE FOR EXPLOSIVE METAL DUST
Schubert Environmental Equipment previously made a standard HydroAIR® Wet Downdraft Table for a startup metal additive company, as they were concerned about present and future generation of explosive dusts. A year later they contacted us again to see if a larger, ultra-heavy strength table was possible that could carry a 4,000 to 5,000 lb. loading. As far as our research could verify, a table of this capacity had never been made.

The design would require reversing the normal Patented access to the sump and mist pads because the table would be used to hold equipment (for metal additive) that could not easily be relocated, plus the item being manufactured would sit on the table for weeks or more. The manufactured items would end up being exceptionally large and thus, the reason for the needed weight capacity of the new table. We were never given more information as this startup company was developing high mass density metal additive manufacturing. Additionally, they wanted to have sump quick pump out capability which also offered optional “tap off” accumulated suspended material.

All has worked out very well for a “one of a kind” Wet Downdraft Table and combustible/explosion concerns are addressed.

07/02/2024

HydroAIR® customer invests in four large systems for Mexico Facility

A recent Schubert Environmental Equipment sale was a shipment to Mexico of four DBS-8 HydroAIR Scrubbers (8,000 cfm). This is the second purchase by a major manufacturer that polishes and buffs stainless and other metal alloy fixtures.

Previously in 2010, this firm purchased two of our DBS-6 HydroAIR Wet Collector Scrubbers to be ducted to ten, two station polishing/buffing lathes for use in their US location.
Back in 2010 the convenience of having two smaller high efficiency Wet Scrubbers was the reasoning to replace a bulky 80-year-old design Wet Collector. Additionally, this existing unit was extremely hard to clean and maintain with nearly inaccessible internal componentry.

These four new HydroAIR units going to the Mexico Facility have the new Patented Insertable Variable Performance Scrub Modules, which make maintenance and service issues a thing of the past.
Other HydroAIR features like four Probe Auto Water Level Control and three Magnehelic® Gages represent the latest designs in the Industry. With the three gages monitoring external static, scrub impeller loss and mist eliminator static, the operator continually knows the exact status of the Scrubber and which zone is functioning to specifications.

It is a few of the many features of the “HydroAIR® Advantage.”

06/20/2024