Portable Vacuum Cleaner
Portable vacuum cleaners are portable cleaning machines that use vacuum suction for cleaning purposes that require both mobility and maneuverability. Portable vacuum cleaners are able to clean dirt, dust and so on at the source. Portable vacuum cleaners include canister cleaners, walk behind or rider sweepers, backpack cleaners,
wet dry vacuums and
HEPA vacuum cleaners. Another example of a portable vacuum would be
auto vacuums, which have airflow and attachments which are designed specifically for cleaning the interiors of cars, trucks and automobiles. Every manufacturing facility requires portable vacuum cleaners to maintain facility cleanliness; woodworking, metal fabrication and other high debris-producing facilities to pick up materials such as fine powders, abrasives, explosive media, litter, non-free flowing media, metalworking chips and fluids, toxic media and welding fumes. Industries that utilize portable vacuum cleaners include retail, commercial, residential, industrial, agricultural, woodworking, food processing, construction, automotive and recycling.
Portable vacuum cleaners have many different types, that all work in a similar if not identical manner. Most portable vacuum cleaners consist of these six components: an intake port, an exhaust port, an electric, gas or air-powered motor, a fan, a filtering system and a housing that contains the other components. Portable vacuum cleaner manufacturers can fabricate three types of filtering systems: cartridge, bag/filter or centrifugal separator, also known as cyclone. The portable vacuum cleaner's suction is produced by one of four common blower motors: turbine, regenerative, positive displacement or centrifugal. The portable vac sucks in waste through an intake port. The waste then passes though a tube that is partially pressured, by either static press or water lift, in which air flow is taking up waste for the filtering system. Airflow, an important functional element in vacuuming, refers to the velocity of the air stream produced by the industrial vacuum cleaners motor or vacuum-producing device. The air flow slows down when it reaches the housing over the filtering systems causing the more dense waste to be separate from the air flow. The slow moving air flow, which is now without the waste, travels through the housing and passes through the fan. After passing through the fan, air escapes through the exhaust port.
The power and output levels are what make industrial portable vacuum cleaners significantly different from standard commercial portable vacuums. Also, industrial portable vacuum cleaners often have larger storage capabilities to handle a wider range of material volume. Certain industrial portable vacuum cleaner manufacturers specially design products for use in clean room applications. Clean rooms are containment free environments which are used for the fabrication of items such as microprocessors, computer chips and related small technological components. The air in such rooms is repeatedly filtered by portable HEPA vacuum cleaners and monitored to remove impurities. HEPA or ULPA certified vacuum filters work in portable HEPA vacuum cleaners to filter 99.97% of air particles 0.3 micrometers in diameter, providing extremely sterile cleaning for areas required to be to be allergen free, such as in medical equipment processing; or particle free, as in clean rooms.