Heavy-duty Industrial Vacuum Loaders pneumatically convey solids, liquids, sludge or slurries through a vacuum hose.
These units feature a vacuum system to convey debris, a filtration system to filter the debris for recovery of reusable material, and a collector body to collect the unfiltered debris.
Industrial vacuum loaders are used for cleaning of industrial and environmental waste in oil refineries, cement plants, foundries, steel mills and chemical plants. These can be used in dry, wet or wet and dry applications and are designed to vacuum coded and non-coded industrial waste.
–Wet vacuum units, the most common type, are designed to pump liquids, sludge and semi-solids. Vacuum loaders, if coded, are designed to vacuum hazardous waste, while non-coded units are used to vacuum non-hazardous waste products such as residential sewage.
-A wet/dry vacuum loader can vacuum a liquid product and alternate to a dry product without changing filters or bags. Wet/dry units can handle material such as abrasives, alumina, brick, carbon, catalysts, cement, sludge, slurries, etc.
-Dry vacuum loaders are used to vacuum powders, rock or gravel.
Debris tanks in vacuum loaders are usually DOT407/412 coded units, manufactured in carbon steel or stainless steel, in capacities ranging from 4 cu. yd. to 21 cu. yd.
These units are mainly mounted on heavy-duty Class 8 straight truck chassis.