Abstract: A filter device including at least one filter element adapted to filter a raw fluid and having a raw fluid side and a clean fluid side, the filter element having a clean fluid outlet arranged on the clean fluid side and extending in a first plane, at least one clean fluid collecting channel into which the clean fluid outlet opens; at least one compressed-air cleaning-off device adapted to generate a pressure pulse for cleaning-off foreign matter adhering to the filter element and to conduct the same through the clean fluid outlet to the filter element, wherein the compressed-air cleaning-off device is adapted to conduct the pressure pulse at least approximately along the first plane to the clean fluid outlet, wherein the compressed-air cleaning-off device comprises a compressed-air supply channel operationally coupled to a clean fluid collecting channel outlet and adapted to charge the clean fluid collecting channel with pressure pulses.

Abstract: A filter element including a throughflow-porous filter body extending between a head end and a longitudinally opposite foot end, wherein a head structure is formed at the head end of the filter element, the head structure having at least one seal configured to seal the filter element with respect to a filter element holder, wherein the head structure has a sidewall extending basically in the longitudinal direction and the seal is formed on the basically longitudinally extending sidewall of the head structure of the filter element.

Abstract: The invention relates to a filter element having inherent stability and being porous to permit flow therethrough, comprising a filter body which forms a porous sintered structure and is constructed with filter body particles which are at least in part polysulfide particles. In addition, the invention relates to a method of manufacturing such a filter element.

Abstract: The invention relates to a filter element having inherent stability and being porous to permit flow therethrough, comprising a filter body which forms a porous sintered structure and is constructed with filter body particles which are at least in part polysulfide particles. In addition, the invention relates to a method of manufacturing such a filter element.

Abstract: A filter device is proposed for cleaning gas entraining foreign bodies, including at least one filter unit having at least one filter surface on a raw gas side to which a raw gas stream containing foreign bodies can be supplied, wherein filtration aids can be supplied to the raw gas stream and/or the filter surface, and wherein filtration aids and/or foreign matter attached to the filter surface can be cleaned off. The filter device additionally includes a fluidized bed arrangement in which a carrier fluid stream can be generated such that cleaned-off filtration aids and/or foreign matter can be held at least in part as filtration aerosol in a surrounding of the filter unit and/or can re-attach to a filter surface.

Abstract: A filter device (19) is proposed for cleaning gas entraining foreign bodies, comprising: at least one filter unit (12) having at least one filter surface on a raw gas side to which a raw gas stream (44) containing foreign bodies can be supplied, wherein filtration aids can be supplied to the raw gas stream (44) and/or the filter surface, and wherein filtration aids and/or foreign matter attached to the filter surface can be cleaned off. The filter device (10) additionally comprises a fluidized bed arrangement (55) in which a carrier fluid stream (54) can be generated such that cleaned-off filtration aids and/or foreign matter can be held at least in part as filtration aerosol in a surrounding of the filter unit (12) and/or can re-attach to a filter surface.

Abstract: A method for filtering out foreign particles from a cooling lubricant used in a process of machining a workpiece includes providing an inherently stable, flow-porous filter element. The filter element comprises a porous main body made of joined plastics particles and having an afflux surface and a porous coating on the afflux surface for surface filtration. The porous coating first component particles and/or fibres, second component anti-adhesion particles to mitigate the adhesion of filtered out material to the porous coating and to facilitate cleaning of the filter element, with the first component particles and/or fibres and the second component particles being mixed in the porous coating, a solidified inorganic binder, and a set adhesive. The solidified inorganic binder and the set adhesive bind the first component particles and/or fibres and the second component particles to each other and to the porous main body.

Abstract: A method for filtering out foreign particles from a cooling lubricant used in a process of machining a workpiece includes providing an inherently stable, flow-porous filter element. The filter element comprises a porous main body made of joined plastics particles and having an afflux surface and a porous coating on the afflux surface for surface filtration. The porous coating first component particles and/or fibres, second component anti-adhesion particles to mitigate the adhesion of filtered out material to the porous coating and to facilitate cleaning of the filter element, with the first component particles and/or fibres and the second component particles being mixed in the porous coating, a solidified inorganic binder, and a set adhesive. The solidified inorganic binder and the set adhesive bind the first component particles and/or fibres and the second component particles to each other and to the porous main body.

Abstract: A reactor (10) for anaerobic waste water treatment is designed as a loop-type column reactor comprising a central flow channel (20). In the annular space (40) between the central flow channel (20) and the reactor wall, there are positioned carrier elements (50) for immobilizing microorganisms, with flow passages being provided between adjacent carrier elements (50). The lower portion of the reactor (30), below the carrier elements, is designed as a space intended to receive waste water having microorganisms floating therein during operation of the reactor (10). During operation, there are provided both floating microorganisms and microorganisms that are immobilized on the carrier elements. The waste water to be treated flows centrally downward and up again along the carrier elements (40), with the flow being generated in part by the gas development of the microorganisms.

Abstract: An inherently stable, flow-porous filter element (2) having a porous coating (10) for surface filtration on its afflux surface, said coating (10) comprising: (a) a main component of particles (12) and/or fibers (22); (b) an inorganic binder component (14; 24) binding the particles (12) and/or the fibers (22) of the main component to each other; (c) an adhesive (16; 26) binding the porous coating (10) to the remainder of the filter element; (d) and an anti-adhesion component (18; 28) mitigating the adhesion of filtered out material to the porous coating and facilitating cleaning of the filter element.

Abstract: A dimensionally stable, flow-porous fluid treatment element suitable for hot fluid treatment, in particular a filter element, characterized by the following components: (a) inorganic solid particles with inner voids; and (b) hardened binder on a water glass base, (c) the binder holding together the solid particles to form the flow-porous fluid treatment element.

Abstract: A filter element of sintered-together plastics particles having substantially the shape of a narrow, hollow box with two large, zigzag or corrugated first side walls, two narrow second side walls interconnecting the first side walls, a closed bottom side and an opposite open side, with the peaks and valleys of the first side walls extending in the bottom side to the open side and the filter element, at the open side, having a head for attachment which is elongated and constitutes at least one flow passage, characterized in that the filter element comprises two unified halves each containing one of the first side walls that a foot of synthetic resin is cast on the bottom side, and that the head consists of synthetic resin and is cast on the first and second side walls such that it surrounds with a first part of its heights the first and second side walls on the outside and the projects with a second part of its heights beyond the first and second side walls so as to cover the same at the ends thereof, and in t

Abstract: A filter unit for exchangeable insertion in a housing of a filter system having a supporting component for supporting a filter unit in the housing; a multiplicity of individual, hollow filter elements wherein each filter element has an outer afflux surface for fluid to be filtered and an open surface portion for the outflow of filtered fluid from an interior of the filter element; and a casting resin. The hollow filter elements are united with the supporting component in such a manner that the filter elements are located substantially in their entirety on the second side of the supporting component. The filter elements are inherently stable filter elements composed with porously sintered together particles. The unification of the filter elements and the supporting component is effected by the casting resin covering the filter elements with a height of at least 1 cm.

Abstract: A filter element comprising an inherently stable, porous supporting body with a finer-pored fibrous coating. According to a first aspect, the fibrous coating has first fibers which are longer than the pore size of the supporting body, and clearly shorter second fibers. According to a second aspect, less than 30% fine-grained particles are distributed in the fibrous coating. To produce the filter element the fibers are applied in the dry state by means of an air stream, an adhesive being applied before and/or after this operation. Alternatively the fibers are applied distributed in a liquid, whereby the adhesive can optionally be contained in the liquid. According to a further aspect, a coating layer consisting of fine-grained particles is applied to the fibrous coating.

Abstract: A fixed-bed bioreactor with porous carrier bodies (14) for microorganisms. The carrier bodies are sheet-like structures with a small thickness in comparison with the carrier body surface. The carrier bodies are kept spaced apart by means of spacing bars (28), defining flow paths (36) between the carrier bodies. In a process for producing porous carrier bodies for microorganisms, plastics particles (70) are introduced into a moulding space (52) and bonded together therein by application of heat. With this process, an endless extrudate (46) of carrier body material may be produced, from which the individual carrier bodies may be cut off. Alternatively, the process may be carried out by means of a series of pairs of mould halves passing through a mould filling station and a heat supply station.

Abstract: A filter element for separating solid particles from a fluid medium. The filter element comprises a permeably porous, substantially inherently stable shaped body made substantially of polyethylene. The polyethylene is made from polyethylene grains combined and heated to form the shaped body. The polyethylene grains comprisean ultrahigh molecular polyethylene component including fine grains and having an average molecular weight of more than 10.sup.6. The polyethylene component further has, in an initial state before heating, a grain size distribution of at least 95% by weight of fine grains being larger than 63 microns and less than or equal to 250 microns. In addition, the polyethylene grains comprise a further polyethylene component including fine grains in an initial state before heating, and which has an average molecular weight of less than 10.sup.6.

Abstract: A filter for the separating of solids particles from hot, gaseous or liquid media, especially separating dust particles from hot flue gases in the temperature range of within 250.degree. C. to 800.degree. C., which consists of a permeable, inherently stable carrier material or substrate which is provided with larger pores; in essence, a support member in which the carrier material is constructed so as to be heat-resistant, and which especially contains constituents of non-corroding materials, such as glass, ceramic, metals or compounds thereof; and in which filter the carrier material can be produced through the intimate, partial bonding of the heat-resistant particles thereof, and wherein the carrier material also possesses a strucutre or, essentially, a spatial or three-dimensional configuration, which is correlated with the type of utilization and the specified capacity.

Abstract: Carrier material for the immobilization of microorganisms, particularly for use in connection with microbiological conversion and/or separation of constituents from gaseous or liquid media, is disclosed. The carrier material comprises a dimensionally stable macroporous skeleton comprised of relatively coarse-grain granular material such as sinterable thermoplastic granules, and relatively fine grain microporous material, such as activated charcoal, which are bonded together. The carrier material thus comprises both macropores having a pore size of from about 10 to 200 .mu.m and micropores having a pore size of up to about 0.1 .mu.m depending upon the identity of the five grain microporous material that is used. Additional finely divided materials, such as catalytic agents or density modifying agents, may also be disposed within the macroporous skeleton. The preparation and use of the carrier material is also disclosed.