How to Select Dewatering Equipment
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What is Dewatering Equipment?
Dewatering equipment is designed to separate water from solids using force, including vacuum and centrifugal motion. Used widely in waste management, dewatering equipment can save money by reducing solids handling or disposal expenses that are charged on a unit weight basis. The weight percentage of water in landfill-bound solids and...
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Q & A on Dewatering Equipment
We asked our users for their input on Dewatering Equipment. Here are the results of 66 users familiar with Dewatering Equipment.
Who Took Our Poll? | Design Trends | Applications and Use | Features | Buying AdviceDesign TrendsTop
What new technologies are influencing dewatering equipment design?
11 answers
Membrane Filter Press, Pressure Leaf Filters, RO, new applications for DE Filter aids, and polymer & clay chemistries.
~Patrick G, Process Engineer, Charlotte, NC
Ceramic interior recoveries for pharmaceutical and food industries use.
~Engineering, Process/Production, Monterrey, Mexico
Replacing of gland packings with mechanical seals.
~Engineering, Design, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
Energy saving technology
new, more durable materials
~General Corporate Mgmt, Kyiv, Ukraine
Slurry pumps operating on compressed air.
~Nirmal S, Project Manager, Delhi, India
Rotary equipment that takes less space.
~Engineering, Consulting, Winnipeg, Canada
ATAD, drying processes,
~Daniel M., Project Manager, Akron, OH
We applied belt filter presses.
~Dr Andrzey M, Project Manager, Kuwait, Kuwait
Technology like Peltier, which do not use filter to increase the time of self-sufficiency.
~Julian B, Engineer, Roanne, France
Sludge consistences.
~Yasien A, Process Engineer, Kuwait
Separation of Liquid and solid
~Jane Xie, Import & Export, Xiamen, China
From your perspective, which companies are creating the most innovative dewatering equipment?
9 answers
I haven't seen any real innovation in types of dewatering. Some the companies have provided better controls and materials which improve the overall O&M properties, namely Centrysis, Andritz & Siemens.
~Daniel M., Project Manager, Akron, OH
Filtration Consultants, LLC and others who are integrating technologies to provide the total solution.
~Patrick G, Process Engineer, Charlotte, NC
We stay with very small flow and need reliability, so we do not search to have the best dewatering equipment, but the most reliable. M&C helps us nowadays.
~Julian B, Engineer, Roanne, France
Pegrollo
Grundfos
HUBER TECHNOLOGY (Germany)
V??? (Italy)
~General Corporate Mgmt, Kyiv, Ukraine
FloTrend
Krebs/FLSmidth
~Bruce W, Project Manager, Soda Springs, ID
Simon Hartly
~Yasien A, Process Engineer, Kuwait
John Deere,
~Engineering, Consulting, Nueva rosita, Mexico
Siemens
~Dr Andrzey M, Project Manager, Kuwait, Kuwait
Lemitec
~Engineering, Process/Production, Monterrey, Mexico
Applications and UseTop
What are some of the applications you have used dewatering equipment for?
23 answers
We do continuous analysis in drilling sites. Because those are isolated, we have to be self-sufficient. Compressed air is the most common gas which you do not have to have bottles or anything else to carry on. Most chromatographs dislike water (and condensate in general), so we have to use filter or other equipment to dewater the gas supply and the sample.
~Julian B, Engineer, Roanne, France
Pumping inflows into the bottom of a 200m deep open cut mine out to the surface for safe mining. The water we pump is hot, as the mine is located in a geothermal active area (at the crater of a dormant volcano).
~Engineering, Design, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
1. Draining flooded areas of small volume, (basements, boxes)
2. Microwave equipment for drying grain and oil crops
3. Dehydration, drying and briquetting of industrial and sewage wastewater
~General Corporate Mgmt, Kyiv, Ukraine
Diatomaceous Earth & Perlite Filter Aid, Pressure Leaf & Filter Press Filters, Pharmaceutical product recovery, oil, gas, chemical process, industrial process waste water, mining, aggregates, lubricants in metal processing, polymer chemistry, automated Backwash screen filters and centrifugal separators & clarifiers & DAF units.
~Patrick G, Process Engineer, Charlotte, NC
Hydrocyclones in a water treatment system for an equipment wash system. Polymer thickener injection to an underflow stream going to a settling tank.
~Bruce W, Project Manager, Soda Springs, ID
Mineral concentrate dewatering, dewatering of tailings, dewatering of finished metal products. Also waste bark dewatering.
~Engineering, Design, Skellefteå, Sweden
Various applications in metallurgical processing from concentrate to waste sludge and intermediate products.
~Engineering, Process/Production, Vancouver, Canada
Wastewater Treatment Plant sludge
Water Treatment Plant sludge
~Daniel M., Project Manager, Akron, OH
A fiberglass tank filter system filled with other minerals.
~Nilo Ramoso, Biologist working on marine turlte conservation, also a farm manager of a family venture, Caloocan City, Philippines
Filtering separate Liquid and Solid application
~Jane Xie, Import & Export, Xiamen, China
Aerobic & anaerobic digested sludge thickening.
~Yasien A, Process Engineer, Kuwait
For dewatering from underground pit.
~Nirmal S, Project Manager, Delhi, India
Sludge removal for WWTP and WTPs
~Project Management, Kamuela, HI
Wastewater Screenings Discharge
~Engineering, Consulting, Winnipeg, Canada
Food, Pharma, chemical markets
~Marketing/Sales, West Hartford, CT
Concentrating fibroin solution
~Engineering, Process/Production, Monterrey, Mexico
Thickening wastewater biomass
~Quality Control/Assurance, Blair, NE
Dewatering of digested sludge
~Dr Andrzey M, Project Manager, Kuwait, Kuwait
Potable water treatment
~Maintenance/Facilities Management, Kamloops, Canada
Ethanol dehydration
~Purchasing, Athens, Greece
Dewatering sludge
~Marketing/Sales, Shanghai, China
Mining dewatering
~Engineering, Consulting, Nueva rosita, Mexico
Sewage
~Engineering, Design, Whitford, New Zealand
Please share with us any “non-standard” applications that dewatering equipment have been used for.
5 answers
We often use adsorption chemistries to recover "components" of a waste stream prior to standard dewatering, which reduces or eliminates the need for hazardous waste classifications and captures the value that would be lost.
~Patrick G, Process Engineer, Charlotte, NC
The applications I have been associated with have been standard WWTP or WTP sludges, nothing exotic or non-standard.
~Daniel M., Project Manager, Akron, OH
Sometimes they have been used only to reduce pressure, but no real "non standard" applications for those equipment.
~Julian B, Engineer, Roanne, France
I deal only with sludge application.
~Dr Andrzey M, Project Manager, Kuwait, Kuwait
Manual
~Nirmal S, Project Manager, Delhi, India
Do you know of any disastrous mistakes that occurred due to the incorrect usage of dewatering equipment?
4 answers
People have used some with too big pressure pulsations. All filter are gone before they connect the anti-pulsation membrane.
~Julian B, Engineer, Roanne, France
Each equipment has its distinct advantages and disadvantages and many problems result from misapplication.
~Patrick G, Process Engineer, Charlotte, NC
Increased shutdown time.
~Nirmal S, Project Manager, Delhi, India
Alignment of belts.
~Dr Andrzey M, Project Manager, Kuwait, Kuwait
FeaturesTop
What would your design or feature "wish list" be for this product?
5 answers
Most dewatering equipment in use has been around for a while, so the "wish list" items have mostly been addressed and incorporated. With the emphasis on sustainability in today's market, lower energy use is always a good thing to include in the design, along with using materials that won't bankrupt the user when replacing parts.
~Daniel M., Project Manager, Akron, OH
Trouble free for sludge /slurry handling based on compressed air or single phase electricity.
~Nirmal S, Project Manager, Delhi, India
Durability is the most important.
~Dr Andrzey M, Project Manager, Kuwait, Kuwait
Self adjusting to the loading
~Engineering, Consulting, Winnipeg, Canada
Low price
~General Corporate Mgmt, Kyiv, Ukraine
Is there any advice you want to share with users to help them avoid common errors in selection or usage of dewatering equipment?
5 answers
Make sure to pilot test or have a demonstration performed on the exact sludge you will be dewatering. Don't take the results of jar tests as how the actual unit will perform. Visit and talk with other users of the equipment to get information on operating, customer service and maintenance issues and concerns.
~Daniel M., Project Manager, Akron, OH
Polymer residual from the filtrate recovery and reuse.
~Yasien A, Process Engineer, Kuwait
Make performance test on the first train before installing the others.
~Dr Andrzey M, Project Manager, Kuwait, Kuwait
People have to ask them why they need to dewater air and so which purity they are looking for. It is useless to have too good equipment, it is just wasting.
~Julian B, Engineer, Roanne, France
There are many problems that are common to each equipment and we offer services to avoid these errors.
~Patrick G, Process Engineer, Charlotte, NC
Buying AdviceTop
Do you have any advice for people relative to buying or using dewatering equipment?
4 answers
Purchasing from a reputable manufacturer with a good history is imperative. Low cost is not always the best. Reliability and customer service is very important when considering dewatering equipment.
~Daniel M., Project Manager, Akron, OH
We offer consulting on the full process and custom build many types of equipment.
~Patrick G, Process Engineer, Charlotte, NC
Cost effectiveness and low polymer consumption on the treated sludge.
~Yasien A, Process Engineer, Kuwait
Durability vs. cost
~Dr Andrzey M, Project Manager, Kuwait, Kuwait
