Walnut Shell Media Filter

In high volume water and wastewater filtration applications, Deep Bed Nutshell Filters are used to remove suspended solids and insoluble hydrocarbons from oily wastewater, groundwater, plant process water, cooling water, and water recycling and reuse.  

In metalworking, power generation, chemical, and petrochemical applications, these industrial water filters treat and remove suspended solids, oily residues, ash, and metallic hydroxides from industrial liquids.

Deep Bed Walnut Shell filtration systems give you double the throughput efficiency of conventional sand or graded mixed-media filters for the removal of 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.

This unparalleled efficiency makes the Walnut Shell Media Filter one of the best industrial water purification systems on the market today.

Click here to discover why a walnut shell media filter is a great option for you.

• High throughput nutshell filters for purification of oily process water and industrial wastewater.
• Single filtration units are available up to 5,000 GPM (175,000 BWPD).
• Deep Bed Nutshell Filtration Systems give double the throughput of conventional deep bed sand or graded mixed-media filters. Horizontal and vertical models are available for flexibility.
• We offer ten (10) standard vertical and six (6) standard horizontal Nutshell Filter models.
• Vertical models provide a flow rate range from 70 GPM to 2800 GPM per unit, while horizontal models provide flow rates from 1200 GPM to 12000 GPM per unit, each depending on the application.
• Units are pre-assembled at the factory and can be shipped to the job site skid-mounted, ready for installation. Also, larger sizes can be custom-designed to meet your specific project needs.

• Unique to the Deep Bed nutshell industrial water filters is a patented media scrubbing cycle that fully regenerates the media filtration system during each backwash cycle.
• This scrubbing cycle is initiated automatically, whenever the filter bed becomes dirt-laden.
• A change in the pressure differential across the filter bed or an automatic preset time signal activates backwashing.
• The current Walnut Shell media 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.