Suppressing fire hazards is essential to protect your facility from suffering a potentially devastating dust explosion. One of the most important lines of defense against dust collector fires and explosions are baghouse spark arrestors (sometimes referred to as “spark traps”). Baghouse spark arrestors, or spark traps work to capture or extinguish sparks in the inbound dust before they enter into the baghouse. This equipment is absolutely necessary with processes that produce embers or sparks from cutting, polishing, smelting, etc… such as metals processing, thermal spray shops, foundries, recycling, etc…