Fowlerex Technologies Air Pollution Control

Fowlerex Technologies is an Australian company with over 50 years of experience in Air Pollution Control. Fowlerex is part of an engineering group operating in Australia, Indonesia and New Zealand, and supplying equipment to all parts of the world. Fowlerex and its partners can supply complete turn-key solutions; comprising design, build, supply and commission. Alternatively Fowlerex may be contracted to supply system components and/or spare parts. Fowlerex also offers a trouble shooting, design and specification service.

Product range

Fowlerex has a very wide range of dust and fume collection equipment for air pollution control, including:

• Dry electrostatic precipitators
• Wet electrostatic precipitators
• Wet gas scrubbers
• Dry gas scrubbers
• Baghouse filter dust collectors
• Cyclones and multi-cyclones
• Carbon adsorption towers
• Thermal oxidisers

Supplementing the main system component is a full range of supplementary equipment, including:

• Rotary valves and double flap [tipping] valves
• Heavy industrial fans and blowers
• Ductwork and stacks
• Airflow control valves and equipment isolation valves
• Flexible connections and expansion joints
• Chain, screw and belt conveyors
• Motor control centres and distribution boards
• Control systems and instrumentation
• Heat exchangers and conditioning towers
• Pumps and pipework

Electrostatic precipitators

Fowlerex’s dry electrostatic precipitator range is proven on applications such as alumina kilns, cement kilns, lime kilns, glass furnaces, nickel kilns and dryers. Fowlerex combine rugged construction with ease of maintenance features and state of the art control systems.

Fowlerex’s wet electrostatic precipitator design is a traditional counter flow wet wall type, proven in service over a long period of time. Typical applications have included coke ovens, fibreglass manufacture, wood fibre dryers and cloth dryers.

Fowlerex uses Castlet controllers and T-R sets, and represents Castlet in Australia.

Wet scrubbers

Fowlerex has several wet scrubber models so is able to offer a suitable unit for nearly any particulate and/or fume collection application. Our model range includes venturi type for high efficiency particulate collection. It also includes packed tower type for chemical fumes, acid gases and the like. Chemical scrubbers can be supplied for odour removal.

Baghouse filters

Fowlerex has a full range of baghouse filters from the very small to the very large. These can be reverse pulse or reverse air, on-line or off-line cleaning. The filters may be tubular bags, flat bags, star bags, cartridges or pleated elements. Fowlerex also has experience with high temperature applications using metal filter elements or ceramic filter elements.

The workhorse of the baghouse world is the tubular reverse pulse baghouse. Always reliable, rugged and low maintenance.

Cyclones and multi-cyclones

Fowlerex’s multiclone is an Australian Industry standard proven in numerous applications such as boiler emission control, cement plants, lime kilns, asphalt plants, milling and grinding operations. They are low cost, low maintenance units suitable for operating temperatures up to 400°C.

Fowlerex also has a range of single cyclones that can be supplied in special abrasion resistant materials. These are most often used as pre-collectors or as spark arrestors.

Safety and quality

Fowlerex is dedicated to safety, quality and environmental best practice. Fowlerex operates and has accreditation from BSI for each system as noted below:

• AS/NZS 4801-2001 Occupational Health and Safety
• ISO 9001-2000 Quality Assurance
• ISO 14001-2004 Environmental Management Systems.

The above systems ensure that the product and/or services provided by Fowlerex will conform to the client’s expectations.