Abstract:
A filter and housing for waste water treatment includes a housing having a plurality of coaxially mounted vertically extending sections adaptable to receive a filter cartridge therein. An upper section is provided with an outlet consisting of at least two coaxially aligned rings of preselected diameters wherein the thickness of the rings and the spacing between the rings is sufficient to receive waste water treatment outlets of different diameters. The filter cartridge is comprised of a stacked arrangement of a plurality of disc-dam units wherein each disc-dam unit is provided with a serpentine configured first dam, the first dam extending upwardly from an upper surface of the disc-dam unit, the first dam having terminating ends spaced at outer terminating edges of the disc dam unit to define a cord segment therebetween. The terminating ends are connected by a second dam having a height less than the first dam. The serpentine configured first dam divides the disc-dam unit into an upstream side along the outer periphery and a downstream side along the inner periphery. Slots are positioned within the serpentine configured dam on the upstream side thereby providing flow communication with underlying disc-dam units. The top of the first dam is of a preselected height so as to provide a preselected spacing between the top of the first dam and the under surface of an overlying disc-dam unit.
Abstract:
This centrifugal apparatus comprises a primary frusto-conical filter screen rotating about a vertical axis, which is closed at its smaller diameter end and which is surrounded at its larger diameter upper end by a flat horizontal imperforate ring. A secondary cylindrical filter screen is fixed to and upstands from the periphery of the flat imperforate ring. The solid-liquid mixture is fed to the bottom of the primary filter screen and moves up under centrifugal force, the liquid being filtered and discharged into a surrounding casing. The solids move onto the ring and the liquid is further filtered through the secondary filter screen which retains the solids, being cylindrical. After the desired humidity content of the solids is reached, a scraper is lowered onto the ring to scrape the surface of the same and also the inner surface of the cylindrical secondary filter screen to remove the solids.
Abstract:
A novel all-wheel journaling of the rotary portion of a rotary self-cleaning strainer on a stationary central core. Respective sets of circumferentially spaced wheels are provided on respective end closures of the rotary portion that close opposite axial ends of a strainer screen to the central core. A first set of wheels on one end closure rides on a wear sleeve around the suction pipe of the stationary core, and a second set on the other end closure rides on a ring disposed around the supply pipe of the stationary core. Two additional rings sandwich the ring on the supply pipe to axially capture the second set of wheels and thereby axially capture the rotary portion on the central core. The rotary portion has a frame, including the end closures, for supporting the screen. Novel tie rod structures extend between the end closures.
Abstract:
A papermaking screen apparatus is formed of a tank, cylindrical first and second screens and a stirring unit, which are disposed inside the tank. The tank holds a papermaking material, and includes a papermaking material inlet at a peripheral portion and a screened material outlet for removing a screened material from a center portion of the tank. The first screen is situated inside the tank to form an inner compartment therein connected to the outlet. The second screen is situated inside the tank and located outside the first screen to thereby form an outer chamber between an inner periphery of the tank and the second screen, and an inner chamber between the first and second screens. The second screen is at least partly overlapped with the first screen along an axial direction. The stirring unit is rotatably situated inside the tank and includes a first stirrer situated in the inner chamber adjacent to the first screen, and a second stirrer situated in the outer chamber adjacent to the second screen. When the papermaking material is supplied from the inlet and the first and second stirrers are rotated, the papermaking material passes through the first and second screens and flows radially inwardly of the tank to be discharged from the outlet through the inner compartment.
Abstract:
A method of testing the integrity of a filter element in a falter assembly includes a) wetting filter material of a filter element having an inlet side and an outlet side connected to an outlet conduit, b) subjecting the inlet side of the filter element to a gas pressure, c) measuring the pressure in the outlet conduit as a function of time, with a downstream outlet valve for the outlet conduit being closed, and d) determining whether the pressure measured at a preselected time exceeds a reference pressure by a predetermined amount, or determining whether the time required to reach a preselected pressure is shorter than a reference time by a predetermined amount.
Abstract:
A reusable oil filter adapted to filter oil used in an engine includes a housing operatively connected to the engine, filter media disposed within the housing, a singular backwashing inlet operatively connected on the housing and an oil drain operatively connected with the housing. Pressurized air delivered through the backwashing inlet forces filtered oil to backflow through the filter media displacing contaminated oil from the filter media and creates an air-oil foam for further cleaning the filter media while the housing remains connected to the engine.
Abstract:
A filter apparatus of the dynamic mass granular filter type, for filtering contaminants from a liquid includes a vessel which contains a first chamber, a second chamber and a conduit pipe which connects the two chambers. The first chamber includes a sump defined by vertical walls and a flat bottom, and supports a dynamic filter bed of granular filter material. The second chamber receives a portion of the mass of granular filter material drawn from the filter bed in the sump and a portion of the liquid, in a flow of liquid through the conduit pipe and cleans and returns the portion of the mass of granular material to the dynamic filter bed through an opening in the second chamber, the size of which is adjustable from a position remote from the vessel. A filtrate recovery chamber, positioned within the dynamic filter bed, has perforated side walls for passing filtrate into the recovery chamber. The side walls are parallel with the movement of the filter materials passing the filtrate recovery chamber. A filter material deflector plate located in the filter bed and down stream from the side walls relative to the movement of the filter material past the side walls, checks the movement of the filter material passing the side walls. Interference to movement by the deflector plate is adjustable from a position remote from the vessel.
Abstract:
An apparatus which performs solids particles separation from a liquids/solids slurry, and subsequent drying of such solids particles, within a single enclosure. Further processing functions, such as reslurry washing, plug washing, crystal growth and other reactions, can also be carried out within that single enclosure. The single enclosure comprises a partly perforated centrifuge drum which can be rotated about a vertical axis at a fast speed at which the centrifugal effects on material in the drum are substantial so that partly dried solids collect in a substantially cylindrical form on the side wall of the drum, and a slow speed at which the centrifugal effects on material in the drum are negligible; a stripping mechanism which is displaceable within the drum, when the drum is rotated at slow speed, for dislodging solids which have been built up on the side wall of the drum during rotation at high speed; and means for heating at least a bottom part of the drum on which partly dried solids collect when dislodged by the stripping mechanism from the side wall of the drum. The solids can themselves thus be heated, or otherwise processed, to cause evaporation therefrom of any remaining liquid.
Abstract:
Described is a filter apparatus equipped with tubular filter elements comprising perforated pipe sections with filter media attached to their outer faces. The flow of the liquid to be filtered is directed onto the filter bodies transversely of the pipe section axis. The filter bodies are preferably disposed in a circular array and interconnected to form a cage acting as a rotor revolving within a casing supplied with the liquid to be filtered. A plurality of such cages may be concentrically nested within one another, with neighboring cages revolving in opposite directions. This results in the creation of pulsing flow patterns in the liquid to be filtered, which act to prevent premature clogging of the filter media by sediments thereon (FIG. 6).
Abstract:
A hydrodynamic device for generating negative pressure excursions in a pulp slurry during fine screening, includes at least one half-foil member disposed on a substantially cylindrical outer surface of a rotor. The rotor is mounted within and co-axial with a substantially cylindrical screen having a circumferentially continuous apertured zone to define an annular screening chamber between the rotor and the screen. The half-foil member is collectively at least axially co-extensive with the apertured zone and has a leading edge which, also collectively, is inclined at a spiral angle relative to the axis of the rotor such that, in one embodiment, during rotation, the leading edge of the half-foil member conducts large particles downwardly through the screening chamber. A selection of hydrodynamic foil configurations is provided in order to adapt to a wide range of pulp types and screening conditions.