Any health & safety experts out there? I cannot install anything
that vents to the outside. So I’m wondering if an internal unit such
as this item from Rio Grande is actually sufficient.
http://www.ganoksin.com/gnkurl/ep81r0
I’m chiefly interested in using it for soldering, although I’d also
be interested in opinions about whether it would sufficient for a
polishing cabinet.
so, caveat - theoretical thoughts that may not be practical for
"reasons" follow…
some time ago in a suburban back yard I was toying with the idea of
burning oil for heating/furnace etc. the problem was I needed there
to be no smoke/soot. while I never did get around to actioning the
experiment I wondered aloud about how best to de-soot/volatile
exhaust. The best idea I came up with is to push the air up a steel
44 gallon drum with a water sprayer installed at the top so that the
water droplets absorb all the ash/soot etc. for later disposal, and
also take a lot of the heat out of the air.
It has some issues with making sure the upward air pressure is
sufficient to n resist the downward water flow and still exhaust,
ther eis back pressure on the furnace (which may not be a good thing,
depending, and there is the added bonus of having to be concerned
about legionella. so yeah - not a solved problem by any stretch, but
I’d be interested in seeing if the principal works one day…
another variant involved pushing the air into the bottom of a water
column.
eliminated the legionella issue, but requires higher pressure,
depending on the column height. 10m = 1 atm.