Horizontal Vacuum Belt Filter Filtrate Segregation: Managing Mother Liquor, Wash Filtrate, and Cloth-Wash Water

A horizontal vacuum belt filter may produce several liquid streams during one continuous pass: the first filtrate displaced from the slurry, filtrate collected during cake washing, drainage from the drying zone, and water used to regenerate the cloth. Treating all of them as one stream can increase recycling loads, dilute valuable liquor, or send contamination […]