Blast rooms are designed to house blasting equipment and safely permit 360-degree blasting, including dust collection and abrasive media reclaim systems. This helps you increase productivity and save on labor costs.
You no longer have to blast components out in the open — you can perform all work inside a walk-in-size steel enclosure. However, proper sizing is essential for your blast room to function efficiently.
Safety
Blast rooms like the ones by Air Blast AFC provide a safe and controlled environment for abrasive blasting, reducing worker risk. They also incorporate systems to recycle and contain abrasive materials, minimizing waste and environmental contamination. These self-contained blast facilities are ideal for industries with demanding quality and safety standards, such as manufacturing, construction, shipbuilding, rail, and aerospace.
These units are constructed from watertight shipping containers and can be installed outdoors or indoors without a foundation. They have a personnel door, shovel-in hopper for grit recycling and dust collector, and a 3.5 cuft blast machine.
Unlike chemical strippers, container blast rooms use abrasive media to remove corrosion and paint, which can save you money. This process is safer and more environmentally friendly than chemical stripping. It’s also much less noisy. Since the blasting equipment is contained in a blast room, the abrasive doesn’t get kicked back into the work area or air. This helps keep your workplace clean and tidy.
Efficiency
A blast room is designed to contain and recycle the abrasive media used during blasting. This means fewer materials go to waste, preventing dust from polluting the surrounding area. A modern blast room can also be outfitted with an abrasive recovery system to ensure that the abrasive media is reused repeatedly, saving you money on future costs for new abrasives.
Blast rooms usually have a dust collection system that routes air inside the blast enclosure through filters to remove airborne abrasive particles. This keeps the workspace clean and minimizes dust, essential for a blasting project to proceed smoothly.
Many modern blast rooms made from naval containers are outfitted with heavy-hinged doors. These are durable and sturdy, but they are slow to fit and can take up valuable facility real estate when swung open – a standard 16’ wide door can consume an additional 135 square feet of floor space.
Flexibility
Container blast rooms offer the flexibility of changing equipment and operation within the confines of a shipping container. This is often much faster and less expensive than custom facilities built from scratch.
Blasting is a rough job, requiring a sturdy environment to work in. While some companies will build a facility from the ground up, developing and installing can be expensive and time-consuming. Converting a shipping container provides a quick, cost-efficient option for a rugged blast room that can be adapted to any application.
A container blast room can be fitted with various dust collection systems to suit the application. A blasting contractor can optimize their operations for maximum productivity and efficiency by switching from a manual sweep-up to a shovel-in hopper system. This increases throughput, cuts labor costs, and reduces waste. It also lowers operating costs by reducing airblast media purchase and disposal expenses. These savings help the blast facility pay for itself relatively quickly.
Recyclability
Reusing abrasive blasting media minimizes waste disposal costs and reduces chemical exposure for operators. It also allows for optimum surface preparation when applying new coatings. Whether the goal is removing an existing coating or preparing a workpiece for a new one, a well-designed blast room offers a controlled environment for abrasive recycling.
Blast rooms with dust collection systems capture and filter the dust produced during abrasive blasting operations. This prevents the spread of dust particles into the workplace, ensuring safe operation conditions and mitigating employee health hazards.
Various dust collection systems are available to meet production volume demands and budgetary constraints. High-production blast operations benefit from a complete recovery floor design with specialized material handling, while lower volume operations can be served by cost-conservative in/out designs.
