Control head for diverting filtrate from rotary filters having adjustable filtrate zones
OwnerWolf Sacherer, Gerald Schnur +2inventors
InventorsWolf Sacherer, Gerald Schnur, Mitko Diehold, Franz Wenzl
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Abstract
The invention relates to a control head constructed for use with rotary filters for controlling separation of filtrate from the filters into adjustable filtrate zones. It is characterized by the fact that at least one filtrate separator (7) is provided, which includes a mechanism for diverting of the flow (9) from axial flow in channels that are axially arranged with respect to the axis of the filter to radial flow without causing entrainment or formation of air bubbles in the diverted flow.
Claims14
Control head constructed for use with for a filter rotatable about an axis and having adjustable filtrate zones, comprising a filtrate separator for producing at least one axial flow of a filtrate;
- and at least one deflector cooperating with said filtrate separator for deflecting said axial flow in a substantially radial direction without causing entrainment or formation of air bubbles in the deflected flow.
A rotary filter having filtering means for separating a liquid-solid mixture into solids and filtrate, means for collecting the filtrate, and a control head in fluid communication with the means for collecting the filtrate, said control head having at least a cloudy filtrate zone and a clear filtrate zone, and comprising an adjustable filtrate separator for splitting the collected filtrate into cloudy and clear filtrate flows deposited into the respective cloudy filtrate zone and the clear filtrate zone, from which the cloudy filtrate flows into a cloudy filtrate discharge dropleg and the clear filtrate flows into a clear filtrate discharge dropleg, wherein the improvement comprises:
- said filtrate separator includes means for deflecting filtrate flow deposited into at least one of said zones, toward the respective discharge dropleg without causing entrainment or formation of air bubbles in the deflected flow.
A filter rotatable about an axis comprising:
- a vacuum box including a base;
- means for providing an incoming axial flow of a filtrate including entrained air into said vacuum box;
- an adjustable filtrate splitter fluidly connected with said incoming axial flow of said filtrate within said vacuum box, said filtrate splitter separating said incoming axial flow into at least an axial flow of a substantially cloudy filtrate including entrained air and an axial flow of a substantially clear filtrate including entrained air;
- a dropleg fluidly connected to said vacuum base;
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- flow deflecting means fluidly connected with at least one of said separated flows of filtrate including entrained air for deflecting the separated flow of filtrate including entrained air from said filtrate splitter toward said base;
- wherein said deflecting means prevents the air entrained with the filtrate from separating from the flow of filtrate through formation of bubbles.
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