Welding Fume Mitigation

Abstract

In order to maintain a healthy and safe work environment the global occupational exposure limits for manganese were reviewed and initiative to reduce welding fume concentrations initiated [1]. There are different techniques available to capture welding fumes, At source weld fume capture is one of the technics used in One of the John Deere Factory, Welding torch equipped with the fume absorption system to capture the fumes generated during welding. For implementation detail study of the existing robot cell infrastructure was done [2]. It results in 80% of fume filtration and 2.79 MT (Table.2) of welding harmful gases filtered and recirculated in the atmosphere [3].

Keywords

• pm-10
• c&f
• mt
• cfm
• ppe
• robot