RT-130 Stainless steel mesh folded industrial water depth filter element

A stainless steel mesh folded industrial water depth filter element is a type of filter used in water filtration systems across various industrial applications. This filter element is constructed using stainless steel mesh, which is folded or pleated to increase the surface area for filtration. Here's a detailed explanation of its features, functions, and applications:

1. Purpose

The primary purpose of a stainless steel mesh folded industrial water depth filter element is to provide depth filtration—capturing contaminants not only on the surface but throughout the thickness of the filter material.

It is designed to remove suspended solids, sediments, and particles from water or other industrial liquids, ensuring clean and contaminant-free output.

2. Construction

The filter element is made from stainless steel mesh, typically in grades like 304, 316, or 316L, chosen for their excellent corrosion resistance and durability in harsh environments.

The mesh is folded or pleated, creating a larger surface area within a compact design, which allows for more efficient filtration without significantly increasing the filter size.

The folding pattern also increases the dirt-holding capacity, allowing the filter to operate longer between maintenance or replacement.

The filter's construction may include a support core, usually made from perforated stainless steel, to ensure mechanical strength and prevent collapse under high pressure.

3. Key Features

High Flow Rates: The pleated design allows for high fluid throughput while maintaining low-pressure drops, ensuring efficient operation even at high flow rates.

Corrosion Resistance: Stainless steel is resistant to rust, scaling, and a wide range of chemicals, making it suitable for use in aggressive industrial environments.

High Temperature Tolerance: Stainless steel mesh can handle elevated temperatures, which makes it suitable for hot water or other heated fluids.

Reusability: These filters are easy to clean and can be reused multiple times, reducing operational costs.

Mechanical Strength: The stainless steel material provides robustness against physical wear, vibrations, and high-pressure conditions.

Depth Filtration: Offers enhanced filtration performance by capturing contaminants throughout the filter’s depth rather than just on the surface.

4. Filtration Performance

Available in various mesh sizes, from coarse (100 microns) to fine filtration (1 micron), depending on the required application.

Offers gradual filtration, meaning it can trap particles of different sizes throughout the folded depth, increasing the efficiency and lifespan of the filter element.

5. Applications

Industrial Water Treatment: For filtering out particles, rust, and sediments from water used in industrial processes, cooling systems, and boilers.

Food and Beverage Industry: Used for filtering water in food processing, brewing, and bottling, where both high flow rates and cleanliness are required.

Chemical and Petrochemical: Suitable for filtering chemical solutions, solvents, and water used in chemical processes, thanks to its chemical resistance.

Power Plants: Used in power generation plants to filter boiler feedwater, cooling water, and other fluids to protect equipment from contaminants.

Desalination and Reverse Osmosis Systems: Acts as a pre-filter for water desalination or reverse osmosis systems, removing particulates before they reach sensitive membranes.

Oil & Gas: For filtering fluids like drilling muds, produced water, or process fluids in refineries.

6. Advantages of Stainless Steel Mesh Folded Filters

Longevity: Stainless steel filters have a long lifespan, even under harsh conditions.

High Dirt-Holding Capacity: The pleated design increases surface area, allowing the filter to hold more contaminants before needing cleaning or replacement.

Easy Maintenance: These filters are easy to clean using backflushing, chemical cleaning, or ultrasonic methods.

Consistency: Stainless steel mesh ensures consistent filtration performance without degradation over time.

Wide Compatibility: Compatible with a wide range of fluids, including corrosive and high-viscosity liquids.

7. Cleaning and Maintenance

Stainless steel mesh filters can be cleaned using several methods:

Backwashing: Forcing fluid in the reverse direction to dislodge trapped particles.

Chemical Cleaning: Using compatible chemicals to dissolve or dislodge contaminants.

Ultrasonic Cleaning: Using ultrasonic waves to remove fine particles and debris.

Reusability makes them economically advantageous, especially in environments where disposable filters would be costly over time.

8. Customizability

These filters can be customized in terms of mesh size, pleat density, length, and diameter to suit specific industrial needs.

Available with different types of end caps, seals, and adapters, making them adaptable to various filtration systems.

Stainless steel woven mesh is made of stainless steel wire.

First, the characteristics of stainless steel filter element

(1) All stainless steel structure, wide chemical compatibility.

(2) High porosity, good permeability, low resistance, low use pressure difference.

(3) Good regeneration performance, can be used repeatedly by chemical cleaning, high temperature and ultrasonic cleaning.

(4) After folding, the filtration area is large and the amount of pollution is large.

(5) High temperature resistance, corrosion resistance, suitable for high viscous liquid filtration.

Second, the application of stainless steel filter element

(1) Pharmaceutical industry: pre-filtration of various antibiotics and other pharmaceutical liquids.

(2) Chemical industry: filtration of various organic solvents, acids and lye.

(3) Food and beverage industry: wine, mineral water, drinking water filtration.

(4) Electronics industry: high purity water pre-filtration.

(5) Petroleum industry: oilfield water injection filtration.

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   - Variations: Sintered stainless steel filter, Sintered metal mesh filter, Sintered porous filter element.

   - Uses: These filters are used in high-pressure or high-temperature applications, such as chemical processing, oil and gas industries, and fluidized bed filtration.

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Melt process filtration system, Melt filtration unit, Polymer melt filtration system.

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