Abstract: In the method of automatically controlling a continuously operating pressure filter, into which a suspension to be separated is introduced and from which a separated filtrate and a formed product, i.e. a concentrated suspension, are removed, a tolerated constant operating pressure is maintained in a filtering chamber of the pressure filter. During operation the transmission or throughput capacity of the filtering walls in the filtering chamber gradually decreases with increasing operating time of the pressure filter. To maintain, during operation, a constant ratio of the proportions of dry solid and liquid in the product the flow of suspension and the flow of product are regulated during operation in accordance with the result of measuring the transmission or throughput capacity of the filtering walls. Each time when a decrease is detected each of the two flows is reduced by the same coefficient which is directly proportional to the respectively detected decrease in the transmission capacity.

Abstract: Pusher centrifuge having a pusher plate and a guiding wall for the mixture to be fed onto the centrifuge drum, with a free flow space between the pusher plate and the guiding wall; the improvement that the surfaces of the pusher plate and guiding wall facing the mixture to be fed extend at least substantially perpendicular to the axis of the centrifuge drum or extend away from the axis of the drum in the radial area which extends from the outer surface of the inlet pipe to the inner surface of the layer of mixture lying on the drum.