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The Nutsche, tipping pan and table filters are intended only for solids recovery from liquid suspensions. The rotary drum filter is mainly used for that purpose, but has some applications…

The tipping (tilting) pan filter obviously, and the rotary table filter somewhat less obviously, are developments of the simple batch vacuum filter described in the previous chapter. The single tipping…

The next group of equipment types to be covered in this Section are all vacuum driven, and nearly all are intended for solids recovery, rather than for decontamination purposes. The…

Gyratory screen separators, which impart a basically circular motion to the particles on the screen, are used for high capacity separation by size of dry materials, and for wet separations…

A huge volume of solids is processed by means of vibratory screens. These can be either horizontal or gently inclined, and they incorporate the use of vibratory motors to achieve…

The simplest form of size classification is the hand-held test sieve, fitted with a piece of precise wire mesh, and used to classify a sample of solids into two ranges…

Well screens are sleeve-like units fitted over the ends of intake pipes in water or oil wells. They well illustrate the nomenclature problem outlined at the start of this chapter…

All of the intake screens discussed so far have operated in a stationary mode (or at least stationary whilst screening). An important group of screens rotate, screening solids continuously through…

A different form of stationary water intake from surface water sources, such as submerged intakes for power, pulp and paper, or petrochemical industries, uses cylindrical screens at the inlet of…

A wide range of screens is used for the removal of solids from water in large-scale water handling systems. Where water is pumped from rivers or lakes (or from the…