How does the Bulb Eater® work?
• The lamp is fed into the entry tube of the machine. • In roughly one second the lamp, whether straight or u-tube enters the machine and is crushed to pieces. • The Bulb Eater’s filtration system pulls the contaminated air out of the drum to filter out the released powder as well the mercury vapor. • The contaminated air goes through a two stage filtering process in the blue case. The first stage filter captures over 99% of the released dust particulate. The second stage HEPA filter acts as a polishing filter and captures over 99.99% of the remaining particulate. • At that point the air is clean but still contains mercury vapor. • The mercury vapor is then blown out of the blue case and through the third and final filter. • The carbon filter not only captures the mercury vapor, but also neutralizes it by converting the vapor to mercuric sulfide, which is non-hazardous. • Clean air comes out of the Bulb Eater® exhaust vent.
