Abstract:
A solid-liquid separating apparatus including a strainer of a cylindrical shape. The strainer is comprised of circular ring members arranged side by side with gaps in between and disposed inside an accommodating section the device casing. The circular ring members comprise end-part circular ring members at both ends of the strainer and a plurality of intermediate circular ring members disposed between the end-part circular ring members and have inward projections projecting from their inner circumferential surfaces. A plurality of lateral bridge members are installed between the end-part circular ring members, and these bridge members have engaging parts that engage with the respective inward projections of the intermediate circular ring members so as to hold the intermediate circular ring members.
Abstract:
A single roll wash press comprising a housing and a drum rotatably mounted within the housing. The drum includes a perforated outer wall and a longitudinally extending centerline axis and is rotatable about the axis. The press further comprises a means for receiving a flow of pulp having an initial consistency ranging from about 2% o.d. to about 6% o.d. such that the pulp flows in the direction of drum rotation, and a means for defining a divergent formation zone and for forming a mat of the pulp on the drum within the divergent formation zone. The means for defining and forming comprises a first arcuate portion of the housing with the formation zone being divergent between upstream and downstream ends thereof. The upstream end of the divergent formation zone communicates with the means for receiving the flow of the pulp. The press further includes a means for washing the pulp mat within a displacement zone disposed downstream of the extraction zone. The press may further include a means for increasing the consistency of the pulp within an extraction zone disposed circumferentially between the formation and displacement zones.
Abstract:
An anti rewet deck is provided for press rolls used to increase consistency of fibrous pulp slurry from approximately 4 percent up to about 30 to 50 percent. This is accomplished by biasing the location of the drainage holes in the roll shell to the forward edge of the drainage compartments within the roll shell. To avoid the necessity for handing of the rolls, a mechanism is provided for accomplishing the purposes of minimizing rewet at practical production rates by providing baffle plates which effectively orient the draining pattern in the desired direction. Such baffles can be permanently or removably installed once the desired handing of the rolls is determined.
Abstract:
The invention concerns a drum washer. The washer has a shaft formed by two cones (46) placed with their bases against one another. The shaft can be used as a supporting structure for the drum. Vanes (48) can also be placed on it for assisting in collecting washing liquid falling from the upper part of the drum separately from the washing liquid ending up on the bottom of the drum. The washer is especially suitable for washing cellulose pulp.
Abstract:
A processing wall is made part of a boundary of a continuous re-entrant lumen, another part of which is a return section. A free, wall conditioning shuttle circulates around this lumen, clearing accumulated material from the processing wall and returning through the return section to circulate again. While the shuttle is in the return section it blocks flow through the return section and while the shuttle is circulating through the processing wall a blocking structure blocks flow through the return section.
Abstract:
A scroll centrifuge having a basket/cage combination with apertures and a screen portion. The screen portion comprising tungsten carbide ligaments arranged side-by-side and end-to-end on the inside surface of the basket/cage combination to form slots. The slots whereof communicate the interior of the basket/cage combination to the exterior.
Abstract:
A filter drum with a tubular filter belt is journaled for rotation on a pipe which serves to supply filtered coolant to spray nozzles located within the drum and operable to backwash the filter belt.
Abstract:
A filter medium is provide in a tubular structure configured in the form of a closed loop. Filter maintenance structures mounted on a continuous string lying within the lumen of the tubular structure are continually driven over the surface of a filter medium to maintain an optimum condition of the filter surface. This string with attached filter maintenance structures is driven around the loop of the tubular structure by hydraulic forces generated by the fluid introduced into the apparatus for filtering.
Abstract:
An improved method for separating solid particles from liquids, such as dewatering and thickening of sludge collected in a container (1), involves the use of at least one drainage unit (9) having doubled screened jacket walls (25, 26) defining a dewatering chamber (10). The liquid relieved of solids within the chamber is subjected to a turbulent motion acting against said screened jacket walls for obstruction of the solids deposition at the wall surfaces of the chamber facing the sludge in the container. The turbulent motion is obtained by a forced fluid F introduced in the chamber through one or more tubes (30, 31). The fluid may favorably be in form of compressed air or water returned from the reject system (14, 16).
Abstract:
Rotary filter including a perforated, rotatable drum and at least one blowback valve located in close proximity to the interior surface of the drum. In a preferred embodiment, the blowback valve includes an opening adjacent the drum for the discharge of a gas and the opening includes at least one radial position adjusting device alignable with a hole in the perforated drum, whereby the radial position of the blowback valve in relation to the interior of the drum is adjustable externally through perforations in the drum. The external adjustment permits drums longer than possible with prior art rotary filters.