Abstract:
A screen assembly comprising a support, a screen comprising peaks and troughs, and a coating on at least a portion of a plurality of the peaks. An apparatus for screening material comprising a frame, a motor mounted to the frame, a screen assembly supported by the frame, a chamber beneath the screen assembly adapted to be placed intermittently at less than atmospheric pressure, a screen formed in an undulating shape comprising a plurality of peaks and troughs, and a coating on at least a portion of a plurality of the peaks.
Abstract:
A liquid filter method includes use of a filter media belt enclosed by sealably mated cover pan and floor pan defining a vacuum chamber connected to a sealed clean liquid tank, with clean liquid pumped out continuously to draw liquid to be filtered into an upper region of the filter chamber via an inlet hose connected to a source of liquid to be filtered. The cover pan is lifted after the vacuum is relieved to allow indexing of the filter media belt. A main control valve to the clean liquid tank is closed and pumping liquid continues during indexing. A vacuum control device limits the maximum vacuum developed in the clean liquid tank and a vacuum pump removes air from the tank for priming and to eliminate excess accumulated air. A hose seal for the cover is mounted to the filter belt to be moved in and out by the belt movement, allowing cleaning of the seal. A double loop hose seal creates an intervening space into which liquid is directed to minimize air leaks.
Abstract:
An apparatus for removing solids from a liquid/solid mixture disposed in a tank and rising to a mixture level, the apparatus including a suction assembly defining a suction opening, the suction assembly linked to a vacuum that causes suction at the opening, a support assembly formed about the suction surface including first and second essentially circular housing walls having wall edges and a filter belt loop sealed to the edges and sized such that the belt is slack and subject to deformation between the edges, a belt section disposed to cover the suction opening and a processor controlling a motivator to periodically alter belt position with respect to the suction opening.
Abstract:
A valve for controlling a fluid flow, in particular for crankcase venting of an internal combustion engine, including a base body (37), a valve body (22) and a biasing means (23), the base body (37) having a valve side (45) and an opposite side (46) situated opposite the valve side (45), a part of the valve body (22) protruding through an opening (47) situated in the base body (37), the biasing means (28), in particular a compression spring, being arranged between the opposite side (46) of the base body (37) and the valve body (22) and supported against the opposite side of the base body (37).
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for producing a solids cake created in filtering performed by a suction drier provided with a fine porous liquid suction surface, in which method there is created, in order to produce said solids cake, a pressure difference in between the filter surface of the fine porous filter medium and the surface opposite to said filter surface. According to the invention, in connection with the filter cake formation, the pressure difference between the filter surface of the fine porous filter medium and the surface opposite to said filter surface is controlled in order to adjust the cake formation speed, and the slurry surface of the suction drier filtering tank is advantageously maintained on a level that enables the use of at least one filter surface cleaning member, essentially throughout the whole filter cake formation process.
Abstract:
A wet flue gas desulfurization process wherein sulfur dioxide present in flue gas is absorbed into a slurry containing a calcium compound, the slurry having sulfur dioxide absorbed therein is oxidized to form a gypsum slurry, and gypsum is separated and recovered from the gypsum slurry, which comprises the steps of dipping a part of a circulating filtering surface of a suction filter into the gypsum slurry so as to cause gypsum to adhere the filtering surface, carrying the gypsum-bearing filtering surface above the surface of the gypsum slurry, sucking out the liquid phase through the filtering surface to form a dehydrated gypsum layer thereon, and removing the gypsum layer from the filtering surface, as well as an apparatus for carrying out this process.
Abstract:
A vacuum filter device is disclosed which includes a filter body which is adapted to receive in fluid-tight, sealed relationship a pair of closed containers for solutions to be filtered by a membrane filter positioned within the filter body. A vacuum port in the filter body communicates with the downstream side of the membrane and a venting passageway also located in the filter body communicates with the closed sample container to serve as a vent to atmospheric pressure. The venting passageway is made of an air permeable hydrophobic filter or preferably a small enough opening to prevent the sample solutions from leaking out of the device during normal use.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for dewatering a wet web wherein the water is withdrawn from the web via capillary action of the pores of a thin porous membrane component of a bi-component filtration medium and transferred to a plurality of reservoirs defined in a second component of the medium from whence the water is withdrawn and directed to a collector or disposal site.
Abstract:
The vacuum filtration device has a disposable filter funnel and a disposable filtrate receptacle. The funnel and receptacle are used with a reusable base that is connected to a vacuum source. When the receptacle and funnel are mounted on the base the vacuum is applied through a connecting passage to the receptacle to draw the filtrate from the funnel into the receptacle.
Abstract:
A vacuum filtration apparatus is provided with one or more vacuum chambers fixedly secured at predetermined positions. The interior of the vacuum chamber alternates between a partial vacuum and atmospheric pressure. An endless filter belt has a horizontal section disposed above the vacuum chamber. A slurry is fed from one or more slurry feeders onto the horizontal section of the endless filter belt so as to create a cake of solid particles. Water is fed from one or more water feeders onto the cake to wash the solid particles on the endless filter belt. The endless filter belt intermittently advances by a predetermined length. When the endless filter belt is stopped, the vacuum chamber is under a vacuum so as to draw the liquid constituent from the slurry, thereby obtaining a purified cake of the solid particles. The vacuum filtration apparatus is provided with a coupling bar at which the slurry feeder and the water feeder is attached. The coupling bar can reciprocate along the endless filter belt by the length of the intermittent advancement of the endless belt. Preferably, the coupling bar is connected to a belt advancing device so that the advancement of the endless filter belt causes movement of the slurry feeder and the water feeder in the direction which is the reverse of the direction of advancement of the endless filter belt.