Soot treating apparatus for dust collector

A soot treating apparatus for a dust collector, comprising a porous ceramic filter disposed on a passage through which exhaust gasses pass for collecting soot included in the exhaust gasses, a hopper disposed on a lower portion of the filter, a backwashing means for introducing a compressed air into the filter through an exhaust gas-downstream side of the filter to drop the soot deposited in the filter on to the hopper, a combustion pipe connected to a lower end of the hopper, an air supplying means for supplying a combustion air into the combustion pipe, a combustion medium of heat-resistant porous ceramic inserted into the combustion pipe, which is capable of collecting the soot arriving at the combustion pipe and of letting the combustion air pass therethrough, a heater disposed around the combustion pipe, being adapted to burn the soot collected by the combustion medium, a heat exchanger disposed around the heater, and an air filter disposed on gas-downstream side of the combustion medium, which is also capable of collecting the burned ashes coming from the combustion medium and of letting the combustion air pass therethrough,

• wherein
• the air supplying means is comprised of an air supplying blower, an air nozzle for jetting an air toward the combustion medium from a side of the hopper, and an air pipe passage disposed so as to pass through the heat exchanger for connecting the blower and the air nozzle to each other, characterised in that the combustion medium is capable of collecting the burned ashes as well as the soot, and the air filter is comprised of a plate of heat-resistant porous ceramic and is detachably fixed within the combustion pipe at the gas-downstream end of the combustion medium, said porous ceramic plate having pores of average diameter from 300 to 700 μm.