Loading dock odour control systems
Loading dock odour control for apartment buildings, hotels and shopping centres, where open bins, compactors and grease traps share one large space.
Loading dock odours can be a real frustration, especially where grease traps, open bins or compactors are involved. Because a loading dock is large and open, the most effective approach is to treat the odour at each source, rather than the whole space at once.
Ozone at the source, and a fragrance in the wider area
For most loading docks, the best value is a system that does both, such as the Garbage Doctor® Duo. Ozone is targeted as close as possible to the main odour sources (the bin store, the compactor or the grease trap) to neutralise the odour, and a pleasant scented vapour is released into the broader area.
Most of the time we recommend the Duo. Depending on the dock, we sometimes recommend the Ozone HD, whose stronger fan reaches across a large dock, with Garbage Doctor Scenting as a separate machine for the fragrance. All of them are designed and built here in Australia for 24/7/365 operation.
For advice and a quote, free of obligation, call 1300-ODOURS (1300 636 877), or send us photos of the dock and we'll recommend the layout. Our technicians work throughout Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, the Gold Coast, the Sunshine Coast, Airlie Beach, Tweed and Auckland.
For loading docks, Purifying Solutions also supplies this system as the Odour Doctor®, its brand for commercial spaces. Whichever name you know us by, you'll get the same advice and the same technicians.
See how the Duo and Scenting are installed in a loading dock
This example shows the Garbage Doctor Duo in a loading dock. The second shows Garbage Doctor Scenting, the separate machine for the fragrance that we sometimes recommend with the Ozone HD.
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Stainless steel, mounted on the wall by the compactor. Inside, UV lamps turn a small amount of the air's oxygen into ozone. The main unit also holds the scenting controls, which are connected to the scent tank.
Grey PVC conduit runs along the wall above the compactor, with small holes to release the ozone just above the compactor. Targeting the ozone at the source neutralises the odour where the odour starts.
Flexible silicone hose carries the ozone down into the compactor's hopper, where the garbage goes in.
Mounted on the wall at the other end of the dock, by the grease trap, and connected to the main unit by a small blue hose. The tank holds your choice of fragrance.
The scent tank sends a scented vapour out of a short pipe on top, and the vapour spreads around the grease trap and through the dock.
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Mounted on the wall, the control unit manages the scenting, with a fine particle filter, and runs continuously, 24 hours a day, with a programmable timer. A small hose takes air from the control unit to each scent tank.
The scent tank holds your choice of fragrance in high capacity, and sends a scented vapour into the dock through a short pipe on top.
The scented vapour spreads through the loading dock. Scenting runs quietly, day and night.
A large space can have a second scent tank, at the other end of the dock, run from the same control unit by a second small hose.
Loading dock odour removal: installation examples
What's the difference between the Duo and the Ozone?
Our explainer video compares our most popular systems: the Garbage Doctor Duo, with ozone in the bin room and a fragrance in the chute, and the Garbage Doctor Ozone, for a neutral bin room and chute.
Talk to us about your building
Call 1300-ODOURS (1300 636 877), or send us photos of your loading dock, and we'll recommend the right system.