Wasserbauer protects jobs and reduces energy consumption at the same time
Anyone involved in automated feeding in agriculture knows Wasserbauer. The family business from Eggmair has become the market leader in this agricultural sector over the last 35 years. However, Wasserbauer's feeding systems are not only found along the local Danube, Tuscany and the French Champagne region. Wasserbauer supplies its automation solutions as far afield as Japan. With its systems, Wasserbauer is able to ensure that the animals get exactly the amount of concentrated feed they need. In addition to the correct dosage, the systems also save time during feeding and thus secure yields. Wasserbauer always pursues a holistic approach. A performance standard that also applies to its own processes. This is why the agricultural machinery manufacturer invested in a state-of-the-art overall ventilation concept from Kappa in its welding hall in Eggmair. This removes welding fumes and fine dust efficiently and economically.
Protecting the environment and people from emissions
Wasserbauer manufactures its own systems. This means high-precision welding work, which generates a lot of welding fumes and fine dust due to the process. Protecting employees at the manual welding workstations was a top priority in the project. In addition to protecting employees, Wasserbauer also invested in optimising sustainability with the new ventilation system: thanks to the excellent separation performance, smoke and fine dust emissions are filtered much better than prescribed and energy is saved compared to conventional systems. Employees and the environment are protected. Welding fume emissions are separated even better and therefore do not reach highly sensitive areas.
More filter performance with lower energy consumption
Kappa installed a direct extraction system at the welding workstations. Extraction arms with a working radius of up to five metres are used for this purpose. These arms use extraction funnels to efficiently capture the welding fumes and gases directly at the welding workstation. Extraction only takes place at the extraction arms that are currently being used. The intelligent automation automatically regulates the required air output. This significantly reduces energy costs.
Residual emissions that cannot be captured directly and therefore pollute the hall air as diffuse emissions are extracted via the hall extraction system. This prevents the hall from becoming increasingly smoky due to upstream and downstream work processes.
The welding fume emissions discharged via direct capture and hall extraction are filtered to a high degree in the Kappa Kappa Mykron® fine dust filter. The Kappa Mykron® welding fume filter was specially developed for the separation of fumes and fine dust, such as those produced during welding. Compared to conventional welding fume filters, smoke and fine dust are separated much more efficiently. For fine dust down to a fineness of 0.4 µm, the improved filter performance is 30%. This makes it possible to return the cleaned air to the welding hall. This means that room heat is not lost during the heating period. This saves heating energy. But the Kappa Mykron® is also an energy-saving filter in other respects. It saves up to 35% electricity compared to conventional filters due to its low system resistance and excellent cleaning during operation. In winter, the cleaned air is returned to the work areas draught-free using Kappa DiffusorsTM. In summer operation, 100% of the purified exhaust air is discharged.
Thanks to the innovative air concept that has been implemented, the welders and all employees in the hall are optimally protected. This also applies to the environment, as Wasserbauer also saves on heating and electricity costs.
Counter rising energy prices and make a contribution to the environment.
Counter rising energy prices and make a contribution to the environment.
The solution installed by Kappa manages to reduce both the emissions load and the consumption of resources at the same time, as Managing Director Franz Wasserbauer also recognises: ‘Wasserbauer is a company whose closeness to nature is already evident from the product. That's why we are pleased to integrate another component into our production with our air concept, which not only counters rising energy prices, but also makes a contribution to environmental protection.’
