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Smith & Loveless, Inc. - FIBROTEX IronMan - Highly Efficient Filtration
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The Smith & Loveless FIBROTEX® IronManTM System — a uniquely designed iron and manganese removal system that combines the FIBROTEX® filter with an integrated oxidation system — is particularly useful for municipalities and facilities that rely on well water sources for potable water. It economically precipitates and removes iron and manganese from well water and provides effective filtration.
Whereas conventional depth filters have a high solids-holding capacity and are usually backwashable, they suffer from the disadvantage of having a relatively coarse nominal filter rating. Cartridge filters, on the other hand, have a fine filtration rating, but have a low solids capacity and are generally not self-cleaning. The FIBROTEX represents a unique combination of the benefits of both types of filter in that it is an automatic backwashable depth filter with a higher solids capacity and a fine filtration rating.
FIBROTEX technology combines an expandable-bed fibrous filter element and an integrated oxidation system with a PLC. This enables the fibrous filter both to efficiently backwash itself automatically when fully loaded with solids, and to achieve exceptionally fine levels of filtration.
FIBROTEX offers a significantly better filtrate and backwash efficiency and a much smaller footprint (75% less typically) when compared to sand and other multimedia filters. Backwash water acts as a carrier to remove the displaced particulates rather than as the primary cleaning agent as in other backwashable depth filters. As a result, backwashing is highly efficient and requires a low volume of backwash water. Backwash rates are typically less than 2% of the filtrate and last only for a few minutes. Employing multiple units allows for continual flow and operation 24 hours a day with standby capacity available – even during backwash cycles.
A single FIBROTEX filter unit can handle flow rates up to 100 gallons per minute from well water sources. Multiple units can be configured in parallel for rates up to millions of gallons per day.
