DustHog SCA · Ceiling Mounted Ambient Cartridge Collector
DustHog SCA Ceiling Mounted Ambient Dust Collector
Some shops cannot put a hood on the work. The part moves, the crane needs the space, or there are twelve stations and no two of them do the same thing. The SCA takes the whole room instead, hangs 2,500 CFM of cartridge collection off the ceiling, and gives your floor back.
Your SCA unit, ProTura cartridges, motor starter and replacement parts come through an authorized Parker distributor, priced off the factory list and shipped anywhere in the country.
Parker rates the SCA for non combustible dry dust. That is Parker’s own equipment type field, not a caveat we are adding. If your dust is combustible, a ceiling hung recirculating collector is the wrong shape of answer and the conversation moves to an engineered system. More on that below.
At a glance
Ambient collection is what you use when source capture will not fit the work
Source capture is always the better answer when you can get a hood on the process. The SCA exists for the floors where you cannot: long parts, overhead crane travel, a fitting bay where the work moves all shift, or a room with enough scattered stations that arms would be a forest.
Parker states it plainly. The SCA is the choice where source capture is impractical. Mounted above the floor, it draws fume, dust and airborne contaminants out of the workspace, filters them, and recirculates the air back into the plant. Nothing gets ducted through the roof, and nothing gets in the operator’s way.
The trade you are making is honest: a room stays cleaner and the general exposure comes down, but ambient collection does not put capture velocity at the arc. On a heavy welding cell you often end up running both.
- ModelsThree, by discharge side
- Airflow2,500 CFM
- Motor3.0 hp
- EfficiencyNot published by Parker
- CleaningReverse pulse, timer controller included
- ConfigurationsThree orderable
- Filter mediaProTura nanofiber or nanofiber FR
- Media areaNot published by Parker
- Compressed air0.78 SCFM per pulse
The models
One machine, and the only build decision is which way the clean air leaves
Parker publishes three orderable SCA builds. They are the same collector at the same airflow. What changes is the discharge side, and that is a decision about how the air moves through your building rather than a performance one.
| Part number | Discharge | Airflow | Motor | Current | Supply |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01-10076-0001 | Rear | 2,500 CFM | 3.0 hp | 4.8 to 9.6 A | 230 to 460V / 3 ph |
| 01-10076-0001L | Left | 2,500 CFM | 3.0 hp | 4.8 to 9.6 A | 230 to 460V / 3 ph |
| 01-10076-0001R | Right | 2,500 CFM | 3.0 hp | 4.8 to 9.6 A | 230 to 460V / 3 ph |
Discharge side is the whole layout question. An ambient system works by setting up a circulation pattern in the room. Clean air has to leave the unit in a direction that pushes contaminated air back toward the intake rather than short circuiting straight into it. On a single unit in a bay, that usually means throwing the discharge down the long axis of the room. Pick the wrong side and you get a machine that filters the same clean air over and over while the far corner stays hazy.
Footprint and hanging weight. Parker publishes the SCA at 98 in. deep, 45 in. wide and 39.625 in. high, weighing 837 lbs before cartridges. That weight is going into your roof structure or onto hangers, so the structural check comes before the purchase order rather than after it. Powder coated mild steel in Hog Gray.
What you choose
Four decisions, and the media is the one that decides your cartridge life
The collector itself is settled at 2,500 CFM. What you configure is where the air goes, what the cartridges are made of, and how the unit gets its power.
| Choice | Options | What it changes |
|---|---|---|
| Discharge orientation | Rear, left or right | The air pattern you set up in the room |
| Filter cartridges | ProTura nanofiber, or ProTura nanofiber fire retardant | Efficiency, cartridge life, and behavior around hot particulate |
| Motor starter | External starter, sized to your supply | How the unit is started and protected |
| Supply voltage | 230 or 460 volt three phase, 60 Hz | Current draw and the feeder your electrician runs |
Cartridges are selected, not assumed. Parker orders the filter cartridges as their own line, and that is deliberate. Weld fume, grinding dust and a general nuisance dust do not want the same media, and the wrong pick costs you in cartridge life rather than in day one price. We put the cartridges on the quote by part number alongside the unit so what arrives is a working collector.
When the fire retardant media earns its place. ProTura nanofiber FR is the version to specify where hot particulate can reach the filter: grinding sparks, plasma or laser work, or any process that throws incandescent material into the airstream. It is not a substitute for a spark arrestor or for the protection strategy on a combustible dust, and we will say so rather than let FR media do work it was not designed for.
The starter is a real line item. Parker builds the SCA for an external motor starter, so the pulse timer controller ships with the unit and the motor starting and overload protection is its own line. We quote it with the machine so your electrician is not standing on a lift on install day discovering the gap.
Media and filtration
ProTura nanofiber, and what recirculating air actually asks of it
Parker fits the SCA with ProTura nanofiber cartridges, in a standard or a fire retardant build. Nanofiber media works by keeping the dust cake on the surface instead of letting it drive into the depth of the media, which is what lets a cartridge pulse clean and come back to near its starting pressure drop.
That matters more on an ambient unit than on a source capture one. The SCA returns its air to the room your people are standing in, which means the media is the last thing between the process and the air everyone breathes for the rest of the shift. There is no stack to send a miss out through.
It also matters for what you spend. At 0.78 SCFM per pulse, a collector that pulses more often than it needs to is quietly burning compressor horsepower every hour it runs. Media that releases its cake cleanly is a compressed air decision as much as a filtration one.
On welding, laser and plasma fume in an occupied space, this is worth talking through before the order rather than after the first cartridge change. We will tell you if the answer is a different machine.
Cleaning and ownership
Continuous cleaning, and the two utilities it runs on
What the collector needs from you
Compressed air for pulsing, at 0.78 SCFM per pulse, and it has to be clean and dry. Air carrying moisture or compressor oil turns cartridge dust into mud, and a collector fed wet air fails in a way that looks exactly like a filter problem and is not.
If your compressed air system does not already have proper drying and filtration at the point of use, that is part of this project rather than a separate one, and it goes on the quote instead of surfacing after startup.
What service looks like on a ceiling unit
The honest part of an overhead machine is that everything you have to touch is overhead. Cartridge changes, dust removal and the annual look at the pulse valves all need safe access, which usually means a lift or a permanent platform.
Plan that access before the unit goes up. A collector that is inconvenient to service is a collector that gets serviced late, and late cartridge changes cost you airflow long before they cost you a cartridge.
Placement is half the performance. Ambient collection is a room design problem. Unit height, the number of units, where the intake faces and which way the clean air throws all decide whether you turn the air over evenly or leave a dead zone. We walk the floor and lay that out before anything gets ordered, because a correctly sized collector hung in the wrong place still reads as a bad machine.
A hard boundary
Non combustible dust only, and that is Parker’s own line
Parker’s equipment type field for the SCA reads non combustible dry dust. We are not going to quote around that. A collector rated for nuisance dust does not become a combustible dust machine because the airflow happens to line up, and a ceiling hung unit that recirculates into an occupied space is the last place to find that out.
NFPA 660 took effect January 1, 2026 and consolidated NFPA 61, 484, 652, 654, 655, and 664. NFPA 68 for venting and NFPA 69 for explosion prevention remain separate referenced standards. Your dust hazard analysis has to be reviewed at least every five years and whenever the process changes.
The part shops underestimate is how many ordinary materials test combustible. Wood, most grains and sugars, many plastics, aluminum, magnesium, titanium and zirconium all sit inside that scope, and published KSt and Pmax values screen for hazard rather than design for it. Design requires lab testing your actual dust, because particle size and moisture move the numbers.
Aluminum, magnesium, titanium and zirconium go to wet collection under NFPA 660’s stated preference. We coordinate the DHA and testing process and prepare documentation your qualified professional engineer reviews and stamps. The DHA itself is completed by you or by a qualified third party. We do not author it and we do not stamp drawings.
What it is built for
Rooms where the work moves and the floor is already full
Parker’s own application field reads dust, fume, smoke, ambient media collector, and calls out dry dust and fume including welding fume. That is the honest scope.
Where it lands on our floors is consistent. Fabrication bays with overhead crane travel, where an arm on a boom would fight the crane every day. Structural and heavy weld shops where the part is too big to bring to a hood. Multi station rooms where the count of arms it would take stops making sense. And training floors where a dozen students move between benches and nobody is going to reposition a hood between cuts.
It shows up most often in welding and metal fabrication, in trade and vocational schools, and alongside source capture arms rather than instead of them, with arms on the heavy stations and the SCA cleaning up what gets away.
Fit check
When the SCA is not right for you
Your dust is combustible
This is the first question, not the last. Parker rates the SCA for non combustible dry dust. Wood, grain, sugar, many plastics and reactive metals all commonly test combustible, and that changes the machine, the protection strategy and the standard you are working to. See combustible dust collectors.
You can get a hood on the work
If the process sits still and a hood or an arm can reach it, source capture will do more for less air and less energy. Catching the fume at the arc always beats filtering the room it ended up in. Look at the SCB for arms off a ceiling unit, or the VB downdraft bench for benchwork.
You are chasing a specific exposure number at the breathing zone
Ambient collection lowers the general room concentration. It does not put capture velocity at the source, so it is the wrong tool for a documented overexposure on one operator at one station. If that is the driver, say so early and the answer changes shape.
Your roof structure has not been checked
837 lbs before cartridges, hung overhead. That is a structural question with a real answer, and it belongs before the order rather than on install day. If the building will not take it, a floor mounted unit does the same work.
You have no compressed air, or it is not dry
Pulse cleaning needs clean dry air. A collector fed wet or oily air will blind its cartridges and look like a filter failure. If the compressed air is not there, that is real scope and it belongs in the budget.
Oil mist, not dry dust
Machining coolant mist is a different filtration problem and a cartridge collector is the wrong machine for it. That work goes to the SmogHog side of the line.
SCA questions
How much air does the SCA move?
2,500 CFM. Parker publishes a single airflow across all three builds, so sizing a room is a question of how many units it takes and where they hang rather than which model to pick.
What is the difference between the three part numbers?
Discharge side. 01-10076-0001 discharges rear, the L discharges left and the R discharges right. Same collector, same airflow. The choice sets up the air pattern in your room.
Is ambient collection as good as source capture?
For a fixed process, no. Capturing fume at the source removes it before it reaches anyone and does it with less air. Ambient collection is what you use when a hood cannot reach the work, and on many floors the right answer is both.
Can I use it on combustible dust?
No. Parker’s equipment type field reads non combustible dry dust. Combustible dust needs a collector engineered for it, with a protection strategy driven by your dust hazard analysis and lab testing of your actual material.
Do the filters come with it?
Cartridges are selected and ordered alongside the unit rather than assumed, because standard and fire retardant ProTura nanofiber suit different processes. We put them on the quote by part number so the collector arrives able to run.
What power does it need?
230 or 460 volt three phase at 60 Hz, drawing 4.8 to 9.6 amps depending on the supply, on a 3.0 hp motor. Parker builds it for an external motor starter, which we quote with the unit.
How heavy is it and where does it mount?
837 lbs before cartridges, mounted above the plant floor. It measures 98 in. deep, 45 in. wide and 39.625 in. high. The structural check on your roof or hangers comes before the order.
Tell us the room, the process, and what is at the wall
Those three answers decide how many units it takes, which way they discharge, what media goes in them, and whether ambient collection is the right shape of answer at all. You get back a full part number and a firm price.
Not sure whether your dust is combustible? Book a free assessment, or start with the NFPA 660 checklist.