Here are some facts about Micronics and the Micronics brand of filter cloth:
1. Reliable Production You Can Count On
Micronics has multiple state-of-the art filter media manufacturing plants to meet your needs.
2. Extensive Inventory
Micronics maintains an extensive on-hand inventory of durable, high-performance rolled goods to meet your needs including advanced materialslike Polypropylene, Nylon, Polyethylene, Polyester, and Rilsan®.
3. Diverse Specifications
Our filter cloths are available in many different materials, yarn types, and weave patternsto meet your exact filtration needs.
4. Best-in-Industry Lead Times
Micronics utilizes numerous state-of-the-art laser-cuttingmachines to ensure fast turnaround and consistent high quality. In fact, we have worked very hard to deliver custom filter press cloth lead times that we believe truly set the standard in the industry!
5. Robust Manufacturing Capabilities in State-of-the-Art Manufacturing Facilities in the Americas, India, and China
Micronics manufactures our Filter Cloth in multiple state-of-the-art filter media manufacturing facilities. So, we have always got your back!
6. Filter Cloth Performance Advantages You Need, Customized
Micronics works with you to deliver the filter cloth that achieves the performance advantages you need including longer cloth life, improved cake release, drier filter cakes, and generally more efficient filter press operations. Our years of textile expertise allow us to develop customized cloth recommendations for any application, including yours.
7. Knowledgeable, On-the-Ground Sales Team
In the Americas, the entire Sales team is happy to assist you in filter cloth selection, considering a whole range of factors such as the need for resistance to chemical attack, tensile strength, thermal properties, and abrasion resistance so that the filter cloth you receive is precisely right for your unique set of operating conditions. Whether in the US, Mexico, Canada, throughout Latin America, India, China, the United Kingdom, Australia, and more, the team is happy to assist you in cloth selection with capabilities and resources you simply won’t find anywhere else.
8. Welded “HPR” Feed Necks and “Clip Necks”
Feed necksare an important parameter that greatly affects filtration performance and Micronics offers many options from our proprietary, welded “HPR” design to a patented, Micronics-designed “clip neck.”
9. Time and Money-Saving Solutions
Micronics manufacturers filter cloth proven to save you time and money on installation vs. traditional, CGR-style cloths. Let us talk to you about new cloth solutions with no plate modifications required. Time is money and Micronics is here to improve your press efficiencies!
10. Experience in Your Markets
Xuda Filtration are exported all over the world and different industries with quality first. Our belief is to provide our customers with more and better high value-added products. Let's create a better future together.
If you have a filtration challenge, chances are we have encountered something very similar in the diverse industries we serve including chemical manufacturing, pigments & dyes, mining & mineral processing, wastewater treatment, breweries & wineries, sugar beet processing, industrial sludge, battery recycling, commercial laundry, surface finishing, and many more industries.
Contact Usto learn more about how Micronics can meet your filter cloth needs. Order your replacement press cloths at 866.481. or Request A Cloth Quote.
When you work with Micronics, we’ll help ensure you feel confident that you are selecting the right filter press cloth – and cloth manufacturer – to optimize your filter press operation! All cloth is not the same. Trust the Micronics brand.
The filter cake will begin to become wet, slimy and not as dry. This is your indicator that the cloths need to be cleaned. (see number 5 for cleaning info). If you have already cleaned your cloths and your process has not changed but you are still getting slimy filter cake, it may be time to replace your cloths. Cloth life varies from installation to installation and depends on such variables as frequency of cycles, proper cleaning and maintenance and the type of sludge that is generated. Generally speaking for most installations cloths can last up to 6 months at the most.
Expansion depends on a couple of factors. First, if your press is already expandable, meaning you’re your press has a distance piece for expansion to a larger capacity, all you need to do is unbolt the distance piece and add additional plates in the 1-3 button sequence taking care that you add plates in even numbers. However, if you have a Met-Chem press or your press has notched and bolted sidebars, then it can also be expanded by removing the sidebars and replacing them with longer sidebars and installing additional plates. Please note that when adding plates, you must be sure to add them in the 1-3 button sequence in order to provide proper drainage.
There are several possible causes. You might not have the proper cloths for you application or if you have been using the same cloths for an extended amount of time, you may have holes in the filter cloths. The gasketed cloth may have slipped out of the grooves. Or, perhaps, the cloth on the head plate may not be properly secured.
Precoat and bodyfeed are two related applications. Both of these special applications use diatomaceous earth (commonly known as D.E.), cellulose, perlite or fly ash, as a filtering aid when the solids in a slurry are extremely fine and free-filtering. The filter aid helps to trap the fine solids that otherwise might flow through the filter cloths. The processes of precoat and bodyfeed increase the clarity of the filtrate, provide for higher flow rates, more consistent runs, shorter cycles, dryer cakes, better cake release, and also help to protect and increase the life of the filter cloths.
The precoat process is performed before the slurry is pumped into the press. A precoat system consists of a tank, mixer and pump. The filter aid is mixed with water in the precoat tank. It is then pumped into the press where it coats the filter cloths. The filter aid rather than the filter cloths becomes your initial filter media.
During a body feed the filter aid mixes with the slurry in the holding tank prior to being fed into the filter press. The filter aid becomes part of the slurry thereby providing a better filter cake.
If you have not made any recent changes to the plate stack (which is the number one reason this might occur), there are several possibilities.
You could have a build-up of solids on the sealing surfaces which will then need to be cleaned.
Check to see if the hydraulic pressure is set to the recommended specifications. If not, make the appropriate adjustment.
Another possibility is that there could be a wrinkle or hole in the filter cloth or the gaskets may be loose.
If you continue to have problems, contact your Met-Chem representative.
It’s a good idea to change your gaskets whenever you change your filter cloths. Also, if you are getting excessive leakage out of the press while maintaining correct hydraulic closure pressure, this may be a sign that it is time to change your gaskets.
Gasket life will depend on many factors, such as length of filtration cycle, temperature, and excessive closing force. Gasket replacement should take place if the gasket appears to be delaminating or shredding. Also, if excessive temperatures exist and cycles are very long, the standard gasketing material may go into additional cure, causing it to harden slightly. If you continue to have a problem, contact your Met-Chem representative for an alternative.
If the press is leaking (around the locknut on the 470mm size or from the bottom leg drain holes on 630mm and larger size presses) during the start-up of the feed process, the problem is usually leakage past the center feed quad ring seal. The quad ring may not seal for several reasons.
First check for the cause:
Did the locknut on the outside of the press head loosen during shipment? If so, tighten the locknut using a spanner wrench, pliers, or pipe wrench.
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