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Document ID (ISN)42517
CIS number 84-1578
ISSN - Serial title Cahiers de notes documentaires - Sécurité et hygiène du travail
Year 1984
Convention or series no.
Title Practical guide to ventilation - 7: Arc welding operations
Original title Guide pratique de ventilation - 7: Opérations de soudage à l'arc [in French]
Bibliographic information 2nd quarter 1984, No.115, note No.1473-115-84, p.143-158. Illus. 20 réf.
Abstract Information sheet designed to serve as a guide and a reference source for the design and operation of ventilation equipment. It concerns various manual or semi-automatic arc welding operations. Summary: choice of ventilation technique as a function of hazard level; practical equipment for the capture and dilution of welding fumes (construction, advantages and disadvantages, calculation examples); subsidiary equipment (introduction of replacement air, treatment of polluted air); operation and maintenance of installations. Appended are: summary of ventilation principles and calculation of general ventilation flowrates.
Descriptors (primary) arc welding and cutting; welding fumes; ventilation design; exhaust ventilation; ventilation
Descriptors (secondary) air purification; description of equipment; rim exhaust; exhaust devices; local exhaust
Document type D - Periodical articles
Subject(s) Heating, ventilation and climate
Broad subject area(s)
Browse category(ies) Ventilation
Welding and cutting