Pressure nutsches are ideal for lab, pilot or batch applications and for easily filtered material such as carbon particles, salts and other products where a cake thickness of 6 inches or more can be attained.
Pressure Nutsche Applications:
- Ideal for piloting of new or modified batch operation and/or processes requiring recovery of the cake.
- The Pressure Nutsche is excellent for lab, pilot or batch applications where cake thickness of 6” and above is achievable.
Pressure Nutsche Features and Benefits:
- Manual and Automatic Models
- Easy recovery of cake in dry or wet form
- Available in alloy or rubber-lined construction
- No wasted heel (zero bypass)
- Designs from full vacuum to 300 psi or higher
- Wide variety of construction materials available
- Recovery of valuable solids where the filter cake is the product and filtrate is the waste
- Permits multiple processes to take place within the filter such as steaming, sparging, drying or washing
- Accommodates a wide variety of flow rates and solids loadings
- Porous cakes applications where cakes can build to several inches
- Pilot Plant studies
- Further treatment with Nitrogen purges or washes (acids)