Abstract: A device for cleaning melt filters which are intended for filtering melts, particularly plastic material melts in extruders, and which include at least one moveable sieve disc with one or more exchangeable sieve inserts, wherein at least one sieve insert is moveable into a flow of cleaning medium within the device in such a way that the sieve insert is located above or below an inlet opening of a cleaning duct. The sieve insert is arranged in the sieve disc at a distance from the surface of the sieve disc which faces the inlet opening.

Abstract: A precoat renewal system for a filter, such as a disc filter. The renewal system includes a plurality of nozzles coupled to spray piping and valving with each nozzle being positioned for spraying an area of one side of a disc. The nozzles and at least a portion of the spray piping is movable such that the nozzles may be displaced relative to the discs. The nozzles and piping are arranged in groups or zones with each zone covering a specified percentage of the discs in the filter and each zone representing about 40% or less of the surface area of the filter media of the discs in the filter. The system may be configured such that high pressure fluid may be supplied to that particular zone for removal of a precoat layer on the disc while other zones may be concurrently washed with a lower pressure fluid.

Abstract: Self-cleaning drum filter comprising a pressure vessel (11) containing a cylindrical filtering drum (15) to whose outside curved surface a filtering mat (57) is juxtaposed, provided with means for removal of the cake collected on the outside of said filtering mat consisting of a scanner plate (18), substantially equal in length to the filtering drum cylindrical surface, juxtaposed to the inside wall of said pressure vessel, said plate being provided along its length with a through-slit (22) centrally placed that provides a passage between the inner (69) and outer (68) faces of said scanner plate, said outer face (68) being provided, along the length of said slit (22), with a trough (21) which forms, together with the inner wall of said pressure vessel, a channel for collecting the flushing liquid during the cake-removal cleaning operation.

Abstract: A self-cleaning filter assembly includes a cylindrical cartridge filter element supported on a coaxially mounted hydrodynamic bearing for rotation of the cartridge filter element about its longitudinal axis. The cylindrical cartridge filter element includes a hollow interior for receiving filtered water. A water spray manifold is provided proximate to the cartridge filter element and includes spray nozzles for providing a water spray capable of rotating the cartridge filter element about its longitudinal axis. A diverter valve receives flow of water to be filtered. With the diverter valve in a first position, the received flow of water submerges the cartridge filter element, with the filtered water received at the hollow interior of the cartridge filter element. With the diverter valve, in a second position, the received flow of water is provided to the water spray manifold causing it to fill under pressure.

Abstract: The present invention is an apparatus and process for cleaning substrates using dense fluids under the influence of centrifugal force and dense fluid phase changes. A perforated centrifuge drum operates within a pressure vessel having drains and fill ports. System controls include a high optical sensor, a low optical sensor, a pressure transducer, and a thermocouple. An external dense fluid cleaning and management system exchanges dense fluid and gas with the pressure vessel via the drain and fill ports. Dense fluid centrifugal separations prevent pooling and supercooling of liquid carbon dioxide avoiding recontamination of the substrate. The present invention can perform solvent-aided separation processes including liquid-liquid, liquid-supercritical-fluid, froth flotation and centrifugal phase-shift separations.

Abstract: Self-cleaning drum filter comprising a pressure vessel (11) containing a cylindrical filtering drum (15) to whose outside-curved surface a filtering mat (57) is juxtaposed, provided with means for removal of the cake collected on the outside of said filtering mat consisting of a scanner plate (18), substantially equal in length to the filtering drum cylindrical surface, juxtaposed to the inside wall of said pressure vessel, said plate being provided along its length with a through-slit (22) centrally placed that provides a passage between the inner (69) and outer (68) faces of said scanner plate, said outer face (68) being provided, along the length of said slit (22), with a trough (21) which forms, together with the inner wall of said pressure vessel, a channel for collecting the flushing liquid during the cake-removal cleaning operation.

Abstract: The invention relates to a sieving device for mechanically separating and extracting solid bodies or solid matter from a liquid current, in particular, to sieve gratings for process or effluent currents or for use in sewage treatment plants or hydroelectric power stations. Said device comprises a number of sieving panels (2, 2′, 2″) which are substantially arranged in a transverse direction to the direction of flow of the liquid current, are linked together, and which form a revolving endless sieve belt (1) immersing into the liquid current (20). The device also comprises a drive for the endless sieve belt (1), whereby the sieving panels (2, 2′, 2″) are arranged successively in such a way that the revolving motion of the endless sieve belt (1) is comprised within one single plane which lies substantially perpendicular to the direction of flow of the liquid current (20).

Abstract: A device for cleaning melt filters which are intended for filtering melts, particularly plastic material melts in extruders, and which include at least one moveable sieve disc with one or more exchangeable sieve inserts, wherein at least one sieve insert is moveable into a flow of cleaning medium within the device in such a way that the sieve insert is located above or below an inlet opening of a cleaning duct. The sieve insert is arranged in the sieve disc at a distance from the surface of the sieve disc which faces the inlet opening.

Abstract: An assembly for separating solid phase material from a slurry that comprises a pressurized filtration unit including a vessel and filter media. A slurry is fed to the filtration unit where it is separated into a solid phase material and a liquid phase material. The filtration unit has a solid outlet for discharging the solid phase material to a material transport. The material transport moves the solid phase material to a depressurizing chamber that has a lower pressure than the filtration unit. As the solid phase material enters the depressurizing chamber it is exposed to the lower pressure of that chamber. The material transport maintains the pressure difference between the filtration unit and the chamber. Subsequently, the depressurized solid phase material can be conveyed to other equipment for drying or other processing.

Abstract: The present invention is an apparatus and process for cleaning substrates using dense fluids under the influence of a continuous centrifugal force. Dense fluid centrifugal separations resolve many problems associated with conventional dense fluid cleaning technology. These include elimination of pooling and supercooling of liquid carbon dioxide trapped within pores and cavities of a substrate—leading to formation of dry ice and recontamination of substrate, ability to precision clean using one unit volume of dense fluid per cleaning operation and ability to remove small insoluble particles from deep voids or cavities. The present invention can perform solvent-aided separation processes heretofore not possible using conventional dense fluid technology. These include liquid-liquid, liquid-supercritical-fluid, froth flotation and centrifugal phase-shift separations.

Abstract: A magnetic separator and process involving a train of parallel, spaced magnetic bars connected together to form a closed loop disposed in a tank able to receive a liquid containing ferromagnetic particles which are to be removed from the liquid. The liquid is introduced by an inlet extending within the closed loop so that the liquid is constrained to flow out through spaces between the magnetic bars. Flow out of the tank is through perforate distributor plates and over a pair of weirs, the perforate plates and weirs extending along a respective side of the closed loop to distribute the flow through all of the bar spaces.

Abstract: The present invention concerns a method and an apparatus for separating dry matter from liquid, comprising providing an enclosed separation environment capable of being pressure regulated, and in said enclosed separation environment contacting at least one filter with a suspension accumulating dry matter on the at least one filter and passing the at least one filter through at least one set of rollers, whereby liquid is removed from the at least one filter, followed by removing the substantially dry filter cake from the at least one filter, wherein the above is performed in the same enclosed separation environment either under vacuum or overpressure.

Abstract: Apparatus for cleaning a filter cloth in a filtering device with a rotatable drum having an inlet for the liquid to be filtered. The drum has in its circumferential surface openings through which the liquid to be filtered is conducted in a filtering direction out of the drum for filtering through a filter cloth. The cleaning apparatus includes at least one spray nozzle which is adapted to spray cleaning liquid onto a portion of the filter cloth in a direction opposite to the filtering direction. Moreover the apparatus comprises a driving device for providing a reciprocating motion of the spray nozzle. The driving device has a coupling which is adapted to transform the rotary motion of the drum into the reciprocating motion of the spray nozzle, with such a ratio that the rotary motion of the drum and the reciprocating motion of the spray nozzle are out of phase with each other.

Abstract: A fluid reclamation system is provided for separating large debris particles from a polluted fluid. The reclamation system includes a separation device with an endless screen installed onto driven cylinders. A basin is mounted within the screen for collecting the fluid after it passes through a top surface of the screen. A disposal mechanism discards large debris particles from the screen and discharges the large debris particles into a storage barrel.

Abstract: A continuous centrifuge of the type comprising a perforated basket of generally frusto-conical configuration which is adapted to rotate about a rotational axis and along whose inner peripheral wall a liquids/solids mix is caused to travel, with solids being discharged over the mouth of the rotating basket at its wider end and liquids being collected via the basket perforations. The basket has at least three separating stages of different inclination relative to the basket rotational axis, with the respective residence time over each separating stage being controlled by the basket angle locally to set the angle to suit the local values controlling the flow at that stage.

Abstract: A process for recovering crystals from a slurry which comprises supplying a slurry comprising crystals and a solvent to a rotary vacuum filter and successively conducting filtration under suction, washing, filtration under suction and cleavage of a cake continuously by rotation of a cylindrical filter medium, wherein a vapor having a same composition as that of the solvent is supplied as a blowing gas for cleaving the cake. The crystals can be continuously recovered for a long period of time without clogging of a filter medium when the crystals are recovered from a slurry by using a rotary vacuum filter.

Abstract: The invention relates to a machine for micro-filtering solid particles suspended in a liquid stream comprising: a couple of coaxial filtering discs each rotating round its own axis arranged horizontal and normal to direction of the flow to be treated and at least a partially cylindrical wall defining together with the rims of said couple of discs a hydraulic sealing coupling so as to enclose the liquid treating space comprising at least the rotation axis. Each disc of said couples of discs is provided with one or more washing ramps arranged outside said treating chambers and provided with nozzles throwing water against said discs at the portions emerging from the treating chamber. The washing water is collected by at least one liquid conveyance channel feeding the liquid back to the purification plant arranged upstream said machines.

Abstract: A liquid filter apparatus includes 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 on 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.

Abstract: The screw conveyor 200A includes a first flight 211 and a second flight 212 for transporting cake to cake discharging ports 105 in the small diameter section 103. Each flight 211, 212 has a small clearance portion 211a, 212a defining a small clearance d1 and a large clearance portion 211b, 212b defining a large clearance d2 between the tip of the flight and the inner peripheral surface of the small diameter section 103. The whole region of the large clearance portion 211b, 212b of each flight 211, 212 overlaps with the small clearance portion 212a, 211a of another flight 212, 211 at the same point in the direction of the rotation axis C.

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 spring filter element having a plurality of coils. The coils are pre-tensioned with the degree of pre-tension varied progressively along the length of the filter such that any part of the filter, in one vertical orientation of the element, supports the dependent remainder of the filter to maintain a closed coil state during normal use. This allows substantially equal opening of the filter gaps between the coils when the element is extended and submerged in fluid.

Abstract: A travelling screen and screening method minimize reintroducing debris to liquid downstream of a screen while achieving the relatively high efficiency of fixed bar screens. A filter surface is defined by a pair of planar plates, each of the plates having openings through which the liquid but not the debris may flow. A connector between the plates positions the plates relative to each other at a selected fixed angle. The connector formed integrally with each of the plates has the planar plates and the connector formed from one sheet and the connector in the form of a bend. A guide mounts a first travelling screen element adjacent to a second such element at a screen element scraper path with one planar plate of the first screen element being oriented relative to one planar plate of the second screen element to define a linear scraper path. The guide also positions the first and second screen elements adjacent to each other along a debris separation path.

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 filtration apparatus in which a rotating filter element is concentrically mounted in a hollow conical of cylindrical chamber. The filter element consists of a support and a membrane mounted on the support. Fluid enters the chamber through an inlet port and concentrate leaves the chamber through an outlet port. Filtrate drains through the membrane and support to a channel in the centre of the filter element. Filtration relies upon cross-flow of the fluid across the surface of the rotating filter element. This reduces the tendency of solids in the fluid to block pores of the membrane, thereby maintaining high flux and minimising the requirement for cleaning of the filter.

Abstract: Device and process for separation of absorbent/floating material from product mixes by means of float/sink separation with a float/sink separator which exhibits a separator tank filled with a liquid separating medium, in which context there are provided devices for generation of a surface flow in the separating medium, which propel the absorbent/floating material as a floating fraction from a pickup point mix to an output point for the floating fraction, along the surface of the separating medium at such a speed as to inhibit absorption of the separating medium.

Abstract: A cleaning device for removing solid impurities from viscous material, in particular molten plastics material, comprising, inside a housing (1), a filter band (5) for separating out solid impurities which can be moved in the longitudinal direction of the housing. The filter band (5) is wrapped around a curved supporting area (7) of a fixed supporting member (3) at an angle of wrap of preferably approximately 180°, and is guided on both sides of the curved supporting area (7) in planar supporting areas (15, 17) which lie tangentially and flush against the curved supporting area (7). To reduce the kinetic resistance of the filter band (5), the curved supporting area (7) and at least partly the planar supporting areas (15, 17) are provided with channels (25) extending in the direction of transport of the filter band (5).

Abstract: A vacuum filter includes a cylindrical filter drum 12 having both a perforate section 14 and an imperforate section 16. The drum is positioned in a tank 20 so that the imperforate section is oriented upwardly therein. A level controller is provided to maintain the level of contaminated fluid below the top of the imperforate section but above the perforate section. A filter belt 54 wrapped around the filter drum is repositioned by rotating the drum when the differential pressure between the interior and exterior of the drum reaches a predetermined value. The inlet ends 35 of the suction pipes 34 are continuously positioned at the lowest point of the drum so that the pump does not lose suction when the drum is rotated thereby facilitating continuous filtration of the contaminated fluid through the vacuum filter.

Abstract: A filter system (10) comprising a filter medium (11) for filtering contaminants from a process fluid, having a filtration side on which contaminants collect and a filtrate side from which filtrate flows; a counter-flow generator (20) located on the filtrate side that directs a localized stream of counter-flow fluid (23) from the filtrate side to the filtration side of the filter medium (11) to thereby dislodge the contaminants from the filtration side of the filter medium (11), wherein the localized stream (23) traverses a substantial proportion of the filter medium (11). The filter system (10) optionally further comprises a clearing-flow generator (30) or like means located on the filtration side of the filter medium (11) which clears contaminants from the filter medium (11).

Abstract: The present invention is a screening/washing/dewatering system which utilizes a solids handling pump to vacuum solids captured from a contaminated fluid stream from the system's screening mechanism and to convey them, in a concentrated form and through a closed conduit, to the washing/dewatering mechanism. The use of a solids handling pump enables a screening, washing and dewatering system to contain the captured solids in a completely closed system from their point of capture, through a conveyance system of unlimited length and configuration, to the point that the washed, dewatered screenings are finally discharged. Secondarily, the present invention offers the advantages of being able to capture as small of a solids particle size as is desirable and of providing effective washing and dewatering of the captured particles while minimizing the number of moving parts and maximizing the overall system reliability.

Abstract: Steaming filter aid cakes in-place in a pressure leaf filter is a simple, inexpensive, and reliable technique for insuring that all collected pathogens are destroyed and never released back into the environment. Filter aids including diatomaceous earth reduce giardia and cryptosporidium by at least 6 logs. D.E. filtration allows the flexibility to adjust the dosage for bodyfeed and the grade to suit changing water conditions, and the process of bodyfeeding filter aids is the only technology that seals its own leaks. After sterilization, the filter aids can be recycled. With hydrocyclones the contaminants can be separated from the filter aids and up to 90% of the filter aid can be recovered. This makes filter aid treatment a very cost effective treatment for large plants as well as the smaller plants where this technology has been used in the past.

Abstract: A filtering centrifuge includes a case, a perforated filter basket disposed for rotation in the case, filter media disposed along an inner surface of the filter basket, and a cake removal mechanism at least partially disposed in the case outside of the filter basket and engageable with the filter media to distort the filter media and induce separation of deposited cake from the filter media. The cake removal mechanism specifically includes an ejector element movably mounted to the case for shifting between a use position adjacent to the filter basket and a neutral position spaced from the filter basket.

Abstract: A mechanically cleanable screen for separating liquid from chips and pulp without the screen getting blocked, particularly in the process area where cooking and circulation liquids are removed from a pressure vessel during the production of chemical pulp and paper pulp by a continuous method. The screen has two screens: a primary screen and a secondary screen which are attached to a common body one after another in the direction of the liquid to be filtered so that they form a cassette. The blades of the secondary screen generate shear and push forces that clean the slots of the primary screen.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and apparatus for cleaning the filter surface (2, 3) of a filter medium in a suction drier. According to the invention, in order to mark the surface to be cleaned, in contact with the surface to be cleaned there is set a sealing surface (4) that forms an essentially closed space for the surface to be cleaned, and that into said closed space, there is conducted cleaning liquid (7) in order to carry out the cleaning.

Abstract: A rotating filter having at least two annular filter disks each having a plurality of filter elements and being carried by a shaft for rotation about an axis perpendicular to the planes defined by the disks. A discharge chute extends into the space between the filter disks for discharging solids removed from the facing filter elements. An axial spacing between the first portion of the upper edges of the chute located radially inside radially inner edge portions of the facing filter elements of the adjacent filter disks is not less than an axial spacing between the inner edge portions, and an axial spacing between a second chute portion of the upper edges located radially outside the radially inner edge portions is not more than the axial spacing between the inner edge portions of the facing filter elements.

Abstract: The invention relates to a machine for micro-filtering solid particles suspended in a liquid stream comprising: a couple of coaxial filtering discs (5, 6, 20, 21, 91, 92, 93, 94) rotating around its own axis (71) arranged horizontal and normal to direction of the flow to be treated and at least a partially cylindrical wall (7) defining together with the rims of said couple of discs a hydraulic sealing coupling so as to enclose the liquid treating space comprising at least the rotation axis. Each disc of said couples of discs is provided with one or more washing ramps (14, 15) arranged outside said treating chambers and provided with nozzles throwing water against said discs at the portions emerging (51, 61) from the treating chamber. The washing water is collected by at least a liquid conveyance channel (8) feeding the liquid back to the purification plant arranged upstream said machines.

Abstract: A screening device useful in water and waste water treatment plants separates fluid flow into two streams. The screening device is perforated so that solids having a predetermined cross-section will be maintained within a first fluid stream, and a portion of the fluid flow that has been screened of solids will flow into a second split-off fluid flow. The streams may go to different locations; only the first stream need be processed for the solids. The screening device is preferably cylindrical or another surface of rotation or a section of such a surface, and rotates. These features help maintain the screening device free of solids, and supplemental cleaning devices may also be used.

Abstract: Device for washing gluten, provided with at least one drum screen rotatably supported on a corrosion-resistant shaft, and equipped with means for supplying and discharging washing water and also with means for supplying the material to be treated at the one drum end and removing the treated gluten at the other drum end, at least two sets of spoke-type elements which are made of corrosion-resistant material and which support the circumferential wall of the drum screen being provided on the drum shaft at points disposed at a distance from one another in the longitudinal direction, which sets are each mounted, when viewed in the circumferential direction, on a bush which is made up of at least two parts made of corrosion-resistant material and attached to one another by flanges and which is to be firmly clamped to the shaft, the shaft being made of steel which is not corrosion-resistant and which has a high modulus of elasticity, and lining sleeves made of corrosion-resistant material being provided around the s

Abstract: A sludge filtration apparatus having chain type belt press with fine fibers of synthetic resin joined thereon wherein a pressing belt (50) for pressing the sludge on and with the filtering belt makes the sludge into the sludge cake, said filtering belt includes a chain (20) being engaged with plural of sprockets of the rollers (40,41,42, 43) and a water absorbing and filtering portion (34) fixed on the chain (20), and wherein said absorbing and filtering portion (34) includes filtering units (33) and elongate grooves (12) for coupling detachably with the filtering units (33).

Abstract: A filter and a method for filtration is based upon moving a filter surface that is caused to move through a first filtration region (FF) for separation of a prefiltrate and through a second filtration region (KF) for separation of a clear filtrate. A vacuum is applied on the filtrate side of the filtration region (KF). The filtrate region (FF) has two filtration zones (FF1 and FF2) with mutually different pressure conditions. The filtration zone FF1 has atmospheric pressure and the filtration zone FF2 has a pressure that is lower than the pressure of FF1. The pressure change between the filtration zones (FF1 and FF2) occurs in the pre-filtrate region, i.e., before the filter surface has reached the filtrate region (KF).

Abstract: A self-regenerating filter unit having a housing which carries an ultrasonic transducer periodically energizable to dislodge caked solids from a filter element in the housing. The removed solids collect in a storage zone where they are periodically removed.

Abstract: An apparatus for de-watering sludge. A main shaft is rotated about a longitudinal axis at a first rate. A screw shaft coupled to the main shaft is rotated about the longitudinal axis at the first rate. Screw flighting coupled to the screw shaft is rotated about the longitudinal axis at the first rate. A first and second stage drum are rotated about the longitudinal axis at a second rate. Sludge is introduced to a first area defined by an outer surface of the screw shaft and an inner surface of the first stage drum. Moisture is removed from the sludge through a first slot coupled to the first stage drum. The sludge is transported with the screw flighting from the first area to a second area defined by an outer surface of the screw shaft and an inner surface of the second stage drum, the second area being larger than the first area. Moisture is removed from the sludge through a second slot coupled to the second stage drum.

Abstract: A filter cloth comprising at least a base layer and a filtering layer, characterized in that the ratio T/L of the thickness (T) of the filtering layer to the length (L) of fibers of fiber bundles constituting the filtering layer is 0.02 to 0.7 and the sum of a projected area of the fibers onto the base layer surface is 8 to 350 times the area of the base layer surface and, a filter cloth characterized in being constituted with at least a base layer and a filtering layer mainly composed of fiber bundles of crimped fiber ratio over 5%.

Abstract: An apparatus for de-watering sludge. A main shaft is rotated about a longitudinal axis at a first rate. A screw shaft coupled to the main shaft is rotated about the longitudinal axis at the first rate. Screw flighting coupled to the screw shaft is rotated about the longitudinal axis at the first rate. A first and second stage drum are rotated about the longitudinal axis at a second rate. Sludge is introduced to a first area defined by an outer surface of the screw shaft and an inner surface of the first stage drum. Moisture is removed from the sludge through a first slot coupled to the first stage drum. The sludge is transported with the screw flighting from the first area to a second area defined by an outer surface of the screw shaft and an inner surface of the second stage drum, the second area being larger than the first area. Moisture is removed from the sludge through a second slot coupled to the second stage drum.

Abstract: An auxiliary filter for removing residual particles from already filtered cutting fluids used in metal cutting machines, the auxiliary filter including a hollow wheel member rotated in a sealed tank into which the filtered liquid flows. Pressurized liquid passes through a fine screen on the perimeter of the rotating wheel to capture any residual particles. A high pressure backwash jets are directed at the screen as it rotates past an array of nozzles, and a collection trough draws any dislodged material away and out of the tank.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for efficiently separating solids from liquid/solid slurries are disclosed. The slurry to be separated is retainably placed within a container having one or more lift paddles secured within its inner cavity. The container is supported for rotation about an axis and has drive means for slowly rotating the container. As the container rotates, the lift paddles lift a portion of the retained slurry, allowing the liquid portion to fall back into the primary slurry pool to be separated, and lifting coarse solids toward the top of the rotation path of the paddles. The separated solids slide by gravity from the lift paddles as they approach the top of their rotation paths and into a collection tray. A filter that rotates with the container filters fine solids from the liquid portion of the slurry and also deposits the fine solids on the collection tray. The filtered liquids can be readily pumped from or recirculated to the separator.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and apparatus for cleaning the filter surface (2, 3) of a filter medium in a suction drier. According to the invention, in order to mark the surface to be cleaned, in contact with the surface to be cleaned there is set a sealing surface (4) that forms an essentially closed space for the surface to be cleaned, and that into said closed space, there is conducted cleaning liquid (7) in order to carry out the cleaning.

Abstract: The invention provides a shower module that includes an upper elongated chamber, a supply pipe located in the upper elongated chamber, wherein the supply pipe includes at least one discharge opening that faces a side wall of the upper elongated chamber, a lower elongated chamber located adjacent to the upper elongated chamber, wherein fluid flow is provided between the lower elongated chamber and the upper elongated chamber via a transfer opening, and wherein the lower elongated chamber includes a discharge opening; and a coupling mechanism for coupling a flexible member to the lower elongated chamber beneath and substantially parallel to the discharge opening. When incorporated with a rotary vacuum filter, the flexible member causes a reservoir of shower liquid to form on a mat located on the shower drum.

Abstract: A reciprocating power sprayer for cleaning a rotating cylindrical wastewater screen of the type formed of tubular perforate wedgewire. The spray is reciprocated on an elongated pneumatic cylinder which is arranged in parallelism along the cylinder wastewater screen. Controls are provided for automatically controlling the reciprocation of the spray.

Abstract: A filtering device includes a container having an inlet for introducing liquid to be treated, a screen provided in the container having an outlet for delivering out treated liquid, and flow creating means for creating, in said container, a flow of the liquid to be treated having a direction which is different from direction of a flow of the liquid to be treated into the screen.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device for clearing product, e.g., sugar, from the inside of a centrifuge basket of a discontinues centrifuge. A scraper blade, which is attached to a clearing rod, is pivoted toward the spun-off layer of product. The scraper blade scrapes off the product with a cutting edge, which is directed in a direction that is opposite to the direction of rotation of the basket. To optimize the product removal, it is preferable if the scraper blade, after it has been pivoted inward, contacts the product over virtually the entire height of the basket and at the same time scrapes off the product from the layer of product which is rotating at the clearing rotational speed in layers over the entire height of the basket. Once the product has been substantially completely removed from the basket, the scraper blade is pivoted back away from the basket wall.