Filtra-Systems Hydromation Deep Bed Filter has overcome the limitations of conventional bed type filters due to a maximum efficiency regeneration design.

What makes the filter the best available technology for removal of oil and solids from water streams is the media regeneration design. The regeneration is achieved using the kinetic model of a Continually Stirred Tank Reactor (CSTR), which makes the backwash the most efficient, most powerful, most economical, and only scientifically provable regeneration technology offered in the market today.

The Hydromation Deep Bed Filter is a proven technology with hundreds of installations worldwide, in a variety of difficult applications. If your sand, anthracite, or multimedia filter is not backwashing properly, the Hydromation will, guaranteed.

Overview

Hydromation® Nut Shell Filters are down flow, deep bed, walnut shell media filters designed for oily water filtration. As the liquid passes through the media bed, oil and solids are efficiently retained in the bed, and can then be easily backwashed out of the media bed with the patented, rotating media scrubbing assembly. This backwash assembly is the best technology available for fluidizing the media bed and allows the manufacture of large flow horizontal units. No chemicals, surfactants, or air sparging cycles are required for the backwash.

Operating Principle

In water and waste water applications, Hydromation Nut Shell Filters are used to remove suspended solids and insoluble hydrocarbons from oily waste water, groundwater, plant process water, cooling water, water recycling & re-use. In metalworking, power generation, municipal, chemical, and petrochemical applications, they treat and remove suspended solids, oily residues, ash, and metallic hydroxides from industrial liquids.

Hydromation nut shell filtration systems give you double the throughput efficiency of conventional deep bed sand or graded mixed-media filters to filter out suspended solids and hydrocarbons. Under normal operating conditions, they remove 95 to 99% of suspended solids, and 90 to 99% of insoluble hydrocarbons, without the use of chemicals.

The media scrubbing cycle prevents filter bed fouling. Unique to Hydromation nut shell filters is a patented media scrubbing cycle that fully reconditions the filter media during each backwash cycle. This scrubbing cycle is initiated automatically, whenever the filter bed becomes dirt-laden. A change in pressure differential across the filter bed, or an automatic preset time signal, activates backwashing.

The current design incorporates the high intensity of a mixer to vigorously agitate the media bed during the scrubbing cycle. The mixer is combined with the separating efficiency of a rotating backwash scrubber screen to produce the optimum separation of the scrubbed media from the concentrated backwash fluids.

Engineered and supported to meet your needs.

Hydromation Deep Bed filters provide operation with pressure, vacuum or gravity flow to meet your specific on-site requirements Engineered and built-to-spec units also available. Filtra Systems Company provides engineering, lab analysis, installation and service support, worldwide.

Hydromation® is a licensed trademark of Petreco International