Major applications and industry users of Klinkau filter plates: solid/liquid separation industry for polishing dewatering and filtration recovery
Pharmaceutical Industry Application
Klinkau filter plates are utilized in many pharmaceutical filtration applications requiring sterile operation and FDA – approved virgin and co-polymer polypropylene resins.
This all stainless steel filter press utilizes a 1200mm x 1200mm "Empty Chamber" mixed pack corner feed diaphragm plate system. Due to extreme operating criteria for cake washing, the filter plates are designed with corner feed and no stay-bosses in the filtration area. The filter plates met all requirements for cake dryness and cake washing.
Ceramic Glaze / Slip and Clay Industry Application
Ceramic and Clay applications require high volume production and low cake moisture content.
The Klinkau product line of diaphragm and recessed chamber filter plates rated for 300psig –20 bar operation can be utilized to meet the demands of these applications.
Blood Processing Industry Application
A Filter Press may be utilized in many different types of filtration processes in the Blood Processing Industry. Plate / frame and diaphragm filter plates are mainly utilized in these blood processing applications.
There are also Klinkau diaphragm filter plates in very special design and resin modifications operating in Blood Plasma Processing applications.
Metals Refining Industry Application
A recessed chamber filter press can be chosen for metals recovery applications utilizing a wash system to increase the product yield. Typical applications include intermediate and final refining steps of cadmium, zinc, decopperizing, repulping, recovery, and primary metals leaching.
Ground Water and Soil Remediation Industry Application
Beginning in the 1980`s, new government regulations required landfill management to process the leachate from the landfill, and industry to remediate contaminated soil and groundwater.
Mining Industry Application
Filter Presses are utilized in many mining operations requiring clarification and dewatering. Diaphragm Filter Presses can be utilized for dewatering coal tailings into a salable product as a high BTU value fuel. This 1500 mm x 2000 mm filter press utilizes a Klinkau Replaceable "Empty Chamber" Diaphragm filter plate system.
Palm Oil Fractionation Application
The complete Klinkau diaphragm product line (fixed welded –standard, fixed welded- "empty chamber", replaceable diaphragm - "empty chamber") has been successfully utilized for over 15 years in the fractionation process of palm oil filtration.
Refined bleached palm oil is being cooled to approximately 20 degrees centigrade by the crystallization process to crystallize the saturated fatty acids.
The crystallization suspension is then filtered utilizing the diaphragm filter press.
The filtration process will yield the valuable oleon (filtrate) and stearin (filter cake).
An evenly formed filter cake during the filtration phase and a uniform movement of the diaphragm during squeezing has a great influence on the separation of the oleon.
The operation and results of the diaphragm filter plate system are a major economical factor in the fractionation process.
The method of construction on the Klinkau diaphragm product line guarantees an even cake formation and therefore a defined squeeze result that produces high yield and quality product.
The latest development is the special Klinkau anti-static diaphragm to eliminate electrostatic energy within the filter press.
