Paint shop with water curtain. Spray booth with water curtain Working principle of spray booth with water curtain

Painting cars at home is a great business solution. But in order to be able to paint cars, there is little experience and equipment for painting, it is also necessary to have a room in which the painting of vehicles will be carried out. In organizations that deal with car painting, paint work has long been carried out in a chamber with a water curtain. It is no secret that such a device can be made with your own hands, only with some effort and spending a small amount of money to buy some equipment. You can buy a ready-made one, only its cost will be very high, and not everyone is ready to invest a large amount. In order to make a device with a water curtain with your own hands, you will also need some knowledge.

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Spray booth with a water curtain is a closed room, which is made of stainless steel and has supply and exhaust ventilation. Such ventilation is created with the help of electric motors. The main part of the device is a heating element, which helps to heat the room to the required temperature and maintain it during painting work. The chamber also includes lighting, which must be distributed evenly over the entire area, and have sufficient luminous flux. It is best to place them not only on the ceiling of the room, but also on the side walls. The device also includes equipment for painting work, and other auxiliary tools.

Painting booth layout

Knowing what the spray booth consists of, it is necessary to determine the location where the arrangement will be made, and make a project according to the location of the main structural elements. An excellent location for the construction of the device can serve as a garage, or build a new extension, which will take more time and, accordingly, finances. To make a device with your own hands, you will need structural elements from which it will be based, heating and ventilation systems, filtration and lighting.

Making a painting chamber

Having made the layout, it is necessary to carry out all the technical calculations, and proceed with the installation work.
First of all, a new room is being built or a frame is being assembled inside the garage. The overall dimensions should be: length 10 meters, width 8 meters, height 3.5 meters. The spray booth, respectively, has a size: 4 meters wide and 6 long.

Gate installation.
It is best to use the gates insulated so that there is no suction and loss of warm air, the outside is sheathed with corrugated board. In the place of contact of the gate, it is insulated with a special adhesive tape. Places with cracks must be filled with mounting foam.
Floor construction. The base of the floor is made of concrete, inside which a hole is made, and a metal pipe with a diameter of 150 mm is brought out into the street to drain air. A metal grate is laid on the floor over the entire surface of the room to a height of 15-20 cm.
Walls. The walls are sheathed with corrugated board, and inside they are insulated, you can make a sandwich panel.
Air exchange system. Components: two electric motors and metal pipes with diameters of 100 mm and 150 mm, respectively. For supply ventilation, an electric motor with a power of 5 kW is used, for exhaust ventilation at least 7 kW.
Ceiling. It is made of a professional flooring, with a heater. A metal frame is mounted in the ceiling for air flow. An electric heater that will supply warm air to the room is installed on the street.

Air cleaning. It is carried out using filters and has a three-level purification.
- 1 Level. A frontal water curtain is created, which is carried out by draining uniform water flows;
- 2 Level. Cleaning the air inside the device. Promotes air filtration and purification from paint waste;
- 3 Level. dry filtration. It contributes to the complete purification of air from paint particles and performs the function of protecting the fan from paint sticking.
Lighting. Mounted LED or fluorescent lamps on the ceiling and walls of the room.
Automatic sensors for control and monitoring of the system of supply and exhaust fans and filters are also installed.
Having mounted everything necessary for the water chamber, the equipment for painting is installed.

How the work is done

The electric heater pumps air from the atmosphere into the closed space of the room. Passing through the system, the air is cleaned by filters, each of which provides a certain purification.
The temperature in the room rises due to the work of the heaters. The painting process begins. Down on the floor, air begins to be sucked out of the chamber, with the help of an exhaust fan. Water curtains are installed in front of the highway, which help to retain paint particles. Here, the air passes through all three levels of purification, if such are pre-installed. By the same principle, cameras with a water curtain and factory production work.

Do-it-yourself positive aspects of the device

Free planning system.
Big savings.
The ability to save on all components.
The ability to use the main parts of the structure.

Device disadvantages

There may be inaccuracies in the calculations, or imperfections in the installation of the device.
It is not possible to automate the entire process, since the elements of the device consist of separate parts.
There are no guarantees for the performance of such a device.

Price

The cost of building a do-it-yourself water curtain chamber can take a long time, but it will cost about $4,000. You can buy a factory one from $20,000 and up. To start a business, the best option is to do it yourself, which is much more profitable for a start-up business.

Spray booth with a water curtain»>A great business solution is to paint cars at home. But in order to be able to paint cars, there is little experience and equipment for painting, it is also necessary to have a room in which the painting of vehicles will be carried out. In organizations that deal with car painting, paint work has long been carried out in a chamber with a water curtain. It is no secret that such a device can be made with your own hands, only with some effort and spending a small amount of money to buy some equipment. You can buy a ready-made one, only its cost will be very high, and not everyone is ready to invest a large amount. In order to make a device with a water curtain with your own hands, you will also need some knowledge.

Painting booth layout

Scheme of a spray booth with a water curtain

Making a painting chamber

1. Gate installation.
  It is best to use the gates insulated so that there is no suction and loss of warm air, the outside is sheathed with corrugated board. In the place of contact of the gate, it is insulated with a special adhesive tape. Places with cracks must be filled with mounting foam.
2. Floor construction. The base of the floor is made of concrete, inside which a hole is made, and a metal pipe with a diameter of 150 mm is brought out into the street to drain air. A metal grate is laid on the floor over the entire surface of the room to a height of 15-20 cm.
3. Walls. The walls are sheathed with corrugated board, and inside they are insulated, you can make a sandwich panel.
4. Air exchange system. Components: two electric motors and metal pipes with diameters of 100 mm and 150 mm, respectively. For supply ventilation, an electric motor with a power of 5 kW is used, for exhaust ventilation at least 7 kW.
5. Ceiling. It is made of a professional flooring, with a heater. A metal frame is mounted in the ceiling for air flow. An electric heater that will supply warm air to the room is installed on the street.

Air cleaning. It is carried out using filters and has a three-level purification.
- 1 Level. A frontal water curtain is created, which is carried out by draining uniform water flows;
- 2 Level. Cleaning the air inside the device. Promotes air filtration and purification from paint waste;
- 3 Level. dry filtration. It contributes to the complete purification of air from paint particles and performs the function of protecting the fan from paint sticking.
Lighting. Mounted LED or fluorescent lamps on the ceiling and walls of the room.
Automatic sensors for control and monitoring of the system of supply and exhaust fans and filters are also installed.
Having mounted everything necessary for the water chamber, the equipment for painting is installed.

How the work is done

Do-it-yourself positive aspects of the device

Free planning system.
Big savings.
The ability to save on all components.
The ability to use the main parts of the structure.

Device disadvantages

There may be inaccuracies in the calculations, or imperfections in the installation of the device.
It is not possible to automate the entire process, since the elements of the device consist of separate parts.
There are no guarantees for the performance of such a device.

Price

Spray booths with a water curtain are perhaps the most advanced version of the design of painting systems. Equipment of this type is used for painting large-sized products, including car bodies, or individual body parts, various furniture structures, etc.

Any spray booth is based on the fact that air moves inside the system, which carries along a mist of paint, which evenly settles on the surface to be painted. And if in a traditional spray booth there is a possibility that harmful substances or paint particles will go outside the booth, then in booths with a water curtain, paint particles are retained by water. Moreover, molecules of harmful volatile substances bind with water molecules, which are in excess inside the spray booth.

Thus, the ingress of harmful substances into the surrounding atmosphere is drastically reduced. But it cannot be said that the water curtain gives a full guarantee that the release of harmful substances into the atmosphere is completely excluded.

In addition, there are chambers that operate on a partially closed cycle of air movement. In this situation, it turns out that the air that has already been in the chamber enters it on the next cycle. And if it is not enough to clean it before reuse, paint particles that have already begun to polymerize will enter the chamber along with air. And this can significantly affect the final quality of the coating. And the water curtain, which can have a different design, retains paint residues.

How do spray booths with a water curtain work?

The spray booth with water protection is very similar in principle to traditional spray booths. Air is sucked in from the atmosphere into the closed space of the chamber. Air is sucked in by the fan. Air enters through a system of filters, each of which provides a certain level of purification. The smaller the holes in the filter material, the finer the cleaning.

The air during the painting phase is heated by passing through special heating elements. The temperature in the chamber starts to rise.

There are exit holes at the bottom of the spray booth. Moreover, they can be located in different places of the chamber (depending on the hole). Through these openings, the air, due to the operation of the exhaust fans, leaves the closed space of the chamber. And it is in front of the highway, which works to remove air from the chamber, that water curtains are installed, which can also have a different design. Essentially, air mixed with paint that exits the chamber passes through a thin wall of water. And all suspended particles remain in this water.

The water curtain can be considered as a water filter. Although there are options when the air does not pass through a wall of water, but through a special container with water. In this case, solid particles gradually accumulate at the bottom of the container, which then precipitate in a state of sediment to the bottom of the container.

In order to activate the process of binding harmful substances in the air with water, a special reagent is added to the container, which is a catalyst for a chemical cleaning reaction.

The most advanced water curtain spray booths support multiple levels of air purification. The first level is when the air passes through the frontal water curtain. The flow of water is a solid wall, and the speed of water movement is the same all the time. Water covers the entire surface of the front part of the curtain.

At the second level, there is a finer purification of air from paint particles. This is the so-called level of internal purification. According to experts, it is at this stage that the most complete air purification from paint impurities takes place.

The finest cleaning takes place on the final filters, which can be made on the basis of hydrocarbon technologies (carbon filters) or dry filters, which are made on a different basis. Here, literally all remaining paint particles are removed. Thus, the fan blades are protected from paint residues sticking to them.

Basic equipment:

Prefabricated body and standing bath made of galvanized steel with a large number of longitudinal, transverse and vertical stiffeners.

Double cascade water curtains

Frontal curtains of both cascades (those through which water flows) have a quick-detachable design. This not only provides full access to the interior of the chamber for maintenance, but also makes it technically possible to narrow the gap between the bottom edge

curtains and water in the bathroom below. For the upper cascade, this is the lower cascade bath, and for the lower cascade, this is the settling bath.

This design has a number of advantages, the main ones being:

due to the absence of long sections of free fall of water, the formation of splashes in both the upper and lower parts of the working area is excluded;
water falling from the lower edge of the water curtain creates a dense stream, additionally purifying the air from suspensions, which eliminates the need to install water sprinklers;
the air flow rate after getting inside the spray booth is reduced by 4-5 times, which allows suspensions to settle into the settling bath, increasing the degree of purification of the exhaust air.
The location of the bath for placing the pump is universal (to the left or to the right of the chamber). In this way, the service side can be selected during installation.
The location of the service area outside the chamber allows visual control of operation and avoiding external contamination of the pump, which leads to its overheating and premature failure.
Gate valves located outside make it easy to regulate the flow of water in the water curtains, as well as to quickly drain water from the chamber with a regular pump during its scheduled maintenance.
stainless steel pump,pumps clumps of sludge paintwork materials with a diameter of up to 35 mm, as well as a built-in overheating protection system.
Circulating water conduit system, including a water circulation valve, an automatic water drain valve, all necessary hoses, passage assemblies, flanges, clamps and other installation materials
Mounting kit including bolts, nuts, washers, sealant, etc. according to the camera package
Packing for transportation by road
Passport and instruction manual
CD with diagram and photo illustrations of the assembly

Additional options:

Exhaust fan
Barrier panel labyrinth
Control panel for placement outside the hazardous area
Control board in a plastic case
Explosion-proof luminaires with lamps (2х36 W)
Working area depth increase by 0.5 meters (roof panel and 2 side panels)

water floor
Supply fan and set of filters for "economy project"
Placement of the pump inside the chamber (to reduce the overall width of the chamber)
Front curtains of both cascades made of stainless steel instead of galvanized steel

The organization of the work of the spray booth involves the installation of cleaning systems, moreover, these systems take into account the main problem - the presence of paint residues in the exhaust air. Standard filtration methods are not effective, therefore, before entering the duct, the exhaust air passes through a water trap or curtain. In water, both fractions of the paint material and harmful impurities are best retained.

Features of water curtain chambers

The quality of applying paint in a garage with a brush and in a professional camera by spraying is very different. A high-quality coating can be achieved thanks to the unique microclimate, since the air in the working area is pre-cleaned and heated to the desired temperature. Dust ingress is critical for a freshly painted surface. Strict requirements for sterility and air humidity are observed in the room, but all this would be pointless if such cameras did not have effective ways to deal with paint fog - we are talking about paint fragments that have not fixed on the painted surface.

To create suitable working conditions, an air circulation system is organized in such chambers. At the entrance to the chamber there are filters that purify the air from large fractions, then the air is heated to a certain temperature and supplied to the working area. As soon as the painting process begins, some of the paint will lie on the surface and begin to set, and some will be in the air. Further, it all depends on whether the air will enter the filters in a natural or forced way.

Water, by its nature, cleans the air well from paint fractions, but special additives are added to the water to improve its properties. At the same time, it must also have dry filters operating in parallel. Water takes only fractions of the paint, but dry filters are no less important for the system, which purify the air before it enters the exhaust fan.

The principle of operation of the water curtain

A water curtain is commonly understood as a hydrofilter that cleans air flows from paint and harmful impurities. Separate cascade. injector and non-injector filters. The difference lies in the method of supplying the water flow for cleaning. When using a cascade filter, the curtain is produced by the shield; in nozzle filters, the curtain is created by nozzles. Vortex hydrofilters are used for active mixing of air with water.

Filters work like this:

Exhaust air, where there are already paint particles, vapors and other harmful impurities, is fed to the screen. This can be done by a fan or air will get there naturally.
Nanos is responsible for creating a continuous layer of water that is fed to the screen.
As soon as the air stream collides with water, large particles are separated from it and enter a specially equipped bath.
Then comes the second stage of purification, in which everything that remains after the first stage is removed from the air.
Chaotic air currents are intercepted by the drop catcher.

Requirements

There is only one requirement - the system must cope with waste streams, respectively, it all depends on the intensity with which the spray booth works. If the load is large, then for better mist trapping, you can put an active water tray, which is a bathtub closed with a grate. The presence of nozzle filters obliges you to choose between screw or tangential nozzles:

The presence of screw nozzles gives a more stable and stable water jet when colliding with air. But such systems are difficult to design.
It is easier to make tangential nozzles, which have a less stable flame, but they are less likely to clog.
The angle of the cone of the water jet should be in the range from 70 to 75 degrees, and the pitch of the nozzles will be determined from the angle.

The water flow is also regulated by the chamber owner. It depends on how quickly the water will pass over the screen or shields, as well as on the number of curtains. In such systems, the circulation of water is almost always closed, that is, for a certain time the same volume of water works in the system.

For high-quality separation of paint particles from water, with their subsequent removal, it is recommended to add impurities to the water. They turn paint residues into sludge that settles after a period of time. Antifoam agents should also be added, otherwise the water may start to foam.

Pros and cons

The advantages of such installations are that there is simply no more effective method for cleaning exhaust air from specific fractions. The process is thought out to the smallest detail, including the subsequent purification of water from sediment. Another question is that here you need to work out an effective scheme, taking into account the needs of the camera. Impurities will need to be added to the water itself so that the water itself does not foam, and the paint sets better with the liquid, but does not clog into lumps. Water filters do not work separately from the main ventilation system, so you need to calculate exactly how much air should be removed from the chamber per unit of time.

The use of cameras with a water cleaning function is justified in all situations when it comes to professional painting. Since in this case you will have to follow strict environmental protection and sanitary standards. Equipping a water curtain for a non-professional camera is problematic both because of the price and because of the complexity of installation and further maintenance.