Filtration and Separation - Home
WEBJul 24, 2024 · Filtration+Separation July 2024 issue – online now! The July 2024 issue of Filtration+Separation magazine looks at artificial intelligence in water and wastewater treatment plants, direct air capture, filtration and ventilation on …
Solid-liquid filtration: Understanding filter presses and belt filters
WEBOct 8, 2012 · Features. Filter presses and belt filters are the workhorses of the solid-liquid filtration world. Together they account for a significant portion of the slurry de-watering and washing procedures that take place in industry. Trevor Sparks outlines some of the advantages and disadvantages of these different technologies and suggests some ways in ...
Filtration Group acquires Columbus Industries
WEBOct 26, 2021 · Filtration Group has bought Columbus Industries, a global provider of air filtration products for indoor residential and commercial applications. Founded in 1965, Columbus Industries designs, manufactures and distributes branded and private label filters air filters. The company’s primary production facilities are in the US and Mexico.
Granular filter media: Evaluating filter bed depth to grain size ratio
WEBDec 4, 2012 · Figure 1: Typical 0.5 mm filter sand categorised as a sub-angular shape. Figure 2: New 0.9 mm anthracite media, the crushed shape makes it angular and irregular with a visible external surface roughness dominated by 50 to 300 micron ‘pores’ Figures 3a and 3b: Images of the rough engineered ceramic media ‘Macrolite’ show the highly irregular surface on a spherical particle.
Biological water treatment: MBBR and IFAS technology
WEBOct 6, 2017 · The term MBBR is the abbreviation of moving bed biofilm reactor, while IFAS stands for integrated fixed film activated sludge system. At a first glance, this seems to be a simple concept: a reaction tank is filled with a plastic-made carrier which is mixed in water or in a water/sludge mixture, respectively. The difference between IFAS and MBBR ...
Atlas Copco acquires Danish process filtration company
WEBAug 2, 2024 · Established in 1986, Danmil is headquartered and has its manufacturing plant in Greve, Denmark. The company has 26 employees and had 2023 revenues of €11 million. “With this acquisition we are expanding our liquid and gas filter product range,” said Philippe Ernens, Business Area president for Compressor Technique at Atlas Copco. “This ...
Filtration and Separation - Construction starts on Bull Run filtration ...
WEBAug 15, 2024 · Construction has started following Portland City Council’s approval of the project’s construction contract. The 135-million-gallon-per-day facility will be online in 2027. The filtration facility and related pipelines will allow the city of Portland to meet regulatory requirements to remove Cryptosporidium from the Bull Run drinking water.
Crossflow filtration: A new approach to wine clarification
WEBMar 3, 2009 · Crossflow filtration has been used for many years in food and beverage applications. Now French filtration specialists SIVA have improved the technology, ensuring that this method of filtration can meet oenophiles’ high standards for wine quality – and save energy in the process. Figure 1. Ceramic membranes INSIDE CéRAM®, with hollow fibres.
Water filtration: Bulk water filtration techniques
WEBMar 23, 2009 · The filtration techniques to be reviewed here include not only the familiar solid/liquid separation processes that form the basis of filtration, but also the closely related diffusion processes of reverse osmosis, nanofiltration and ultrafiltration with membranes. Also covered are the liquid/liquid separation processes used to remove or recover oil from an aqueous suspension..
Filtration overview: A closer look at depth filtration
WEBMar 23, 2009 · Deep bed filter. The deep bed filter, as its name implies, involves filtration vertically through a packed bed of granular or fibrous material, whose height is considerably greater than even the thickest of continuous filter media. It is typified by the conventional sand filter, which clarifies water by depth filtration mechanisms as it flows ...
Skip to content