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Manufacturing Technology Insights | Friday, May 27, 2022
With the release of hazardous chemicals and contaminants, it is critical for organisations to use filtration systems and integrate them with new systems to achieve more advanced treatment methods, increase overall operation efficiency, and reduce operating costs.
FREMONT, CA: Industrial facilities and smaller commercial businesses produce a huge number of contaminants in their wastewater streams. Therefore, industrial water filtration systems are inevitable to remove harmful contaminants affecting both output and the environment. Industrial water filtration systems play a vital role as an industrial or commercial process water or tertiary wastewater treatment system application. Thus, industrial water filtration systems offer organisations a wide range of benefits.
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Reducing Suspended Solids
The entire basis of most industrial water filtration systems is to alleviate the concentration of suspended solid particulates and turbidity in a source water stream. Often, filtration lightens the load on downstream systems in process water applications. Food and beverage, pulp and paper, textiles, and oil and gas industries all produce high levels of suspended solids a single treatment method cannot handle. However, filtration makes this easier.
Reducing Other Contaminants
Different types of filtration systems remove pollutants like traces of metals, ammonia, volatile organic compounds, iron, manganese, and other pollutants depending on the properties of the system. These filtration systems reduce particular contaminants for better efficiency of downstream polishing water treatment systems.
Greater Treatment Efficiency
Filtration units improve the overall treatment efficiency when used as a supplement to other treatment systems. This greater efficiency comes from either pre-treatment or polishing. As a pre-treatment, industrial water filtration systems alleviate the concentration of contaminants for other polishing treatment systems in process water and wastewater applications. These downstream polishing systems function more effectively at lower concentrations, thereby increasing the contaminant removal rates. In many cases, these filtration systems can be used in a polishing process step, particularly in wastewater treatment applications in commercial or industrial facilities, after clarification of an MBBR biological process or electrochemical treatment process.
Less Equipment Maintenance
Industrial water filtration systems offer lower equipment maintenance when operated in greater efficiency conditions than downstream treatment processes. They are primarily designed to operate in this way for a reason.
Handle High Solids and Turbidity
Centrifugal systems are mechanical-based filtration systems that spin the influent fluid at high enough speeds to force solids to the outer wall. A filter embedded in the chamber keeps excess lids from entering the filtered water's exit stream. Centrifugal filtration mechanism units enable efficient suspended solids filtration. They can handle higher suspended solids loads than other types of filters. These industrial water filtration systems make excellent pretreatment filters for TSS and turbidity removal and are compact. Although their specific purpose is to remove suspended solids, centrifugal filters are best equipped to handle high solids and turbidity industrial applications.
Improves Filtration Quality
Industrial water filtration systems using filtration media integrate physical filtration with some level of chemical filtration by adsorption. The most common media filters use sand, but anthracite, activated carbon, zeolite, and others are also based on the contaminant to be removed. These filtration media reduce solids and, depending on the system used, can also filter out chemical or organic pollutants. Anthracite and sand used together in multimedia filters improve filtration quality with their different physical structures.
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