One of the solutions designed and implemented by our engineers that fills us with the most pride is the installation of an ammonium perchlorate dust extraction system at the Guyanese Space Center in Kourou.
The work was commissioned by Regulus, a French company owned by Avio and Ariane Groups, a global leader in the production and refueling of solid propellants for space rocket engines.
Regulus' need concerned the operations of emptying and filling the drums of ammonium perchlorate, the powerful oxidizer that makes up three-quarters of the space propellant, in order to suck up the dust and prevent its dispersion into the environment.
For this purpose, proportionately sized suction arms and hoods were installed near the perchlorate containers, positioned so as not to hinder emptying and filling operations, with a total capacity of 6,000 cubic meters per hour.
The centralized system finds its heart in the main manifold, which allows the convergence of the different sources of polluted air to the Coral Aircom bag filter in the Atex version, certified to perform suction and filtration of potentially explosive dust. The filter coordinates with a 15 kW Coral PRA 360/2 centrifugal electric fan, also suitable for explosion risk, which enables the expulsion of filtered and cleaned air into the outside atmosphere.
