Pressure filter for liquids

Abstract

A pressure filter includes a pressure vessel having a pressure chamber and a circumferential edge; a turntable rotatably mounted within the pressure vessel about a horizontal axis; a plurality of filters non-rotatably mounted to the turntable and spaced apart from each other at the circumferential edge of the pressure vessel and rotatable around the horizontal axis through a center of the pressure vessel such that the plurality of the filters continuously dip into and out of a solid solution in a bottom of the pressure chamber. A blow-off station is positioned above the solid suspension in the pressure chamber for freeing filter cake that has dried on the plurality of filters. A filter cake conveyor conveys the blown-off filter cake through a pressure lock in the pressure vessel. Each filter forms a filter element having a filter surface which is defined by cross-section sides extending along a radius of the pressure vessel adjacent to the circumferential edge, and long sides extending parallel to the horizontal axis of pressure vessel.

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