To help manufacturers evaluate industrial dust collection equipment with much greater accuracy, the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) developed Standard 199-2016. Titled “Method of Testing the Performance of Industrial Pulse Cleaned Dust Collectors,” the standard provides a way to accurately assess and compare self-cleaning dust collection systems. These are systems that use compressed air to discharge the dust cake from the filter without taking the air filter off line.
Before Standard 199, there wasn’t an accurate test to measure the effectiveness of self-cleaning dust collectors and filters. Manufacturers could not get the data required to compare performance results based on true operating conditions, such as how different collector designs and filter options affect factors like emissions and energy consumption.