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Upgrades, rebuilds and exchange

Maximise filtration performance with filtration upgrades and rebuilds

Have you ever wanted to get more from your filtration process? Our filtration upgrades can help increase capacity and availability, by increasing filter throughput and reducing wear on your filter media. Reduced wear means less downtime, helping increase profitability and reduce your operating costs.

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Key benefits of filtration upgrades

  • Upgrade to Maxa™ Filter Plate: 15% more filtrate open area

    Improve the performance of your AFP by upgrading to Maxa™ Filter Plates. With an expanded filtration surface area and up to 10% larger chamber volume, you can increase throughput and cake mass per cycle, for greater productivity.

  • Improve filter media wear life with innovative engineering

    Upgrades can also have a big impact on wear life. For example, the MAXA Plate is designed to promote filtrate flow and eliminate areas that fatigue filter media. The result is longer filter media wear life and longer plate life – a double win for your bottom line.

  • OEM quality applied to every project

    When you partner with an OEM, you don't just get the original equipment expertise – you also get access to the global network of materials and process experts and decades of expertise in the field. All this is applied to every project we undertake.

Audits & Studies

Every project begins with a site inspection and audit, where we can find out what’s not working and why. Our site inspections use a checklist to assess performance against a baseline, while our audits analyse performance data against guarantees to discover the performance gap. We’ll then make recommendations for adjustments or improvements to the filter to bridge that gap and achieve your performance goals.

Upgrading

There are several possibilities to upgrade your mining filtration equipment, but as with all our upgrade services we prefer to take a bespoke approach based on your challenges and performance goals. Talk to us about your needs.

Rebuilding

Where filtration equipment has worn over time, we can bring it back to as-new condition with our rebuilds services. For example, drum filters are older filtration technology but are still widely used due to their simplicity of operation. Over time the mechanical condition of these drum filters deteriorates due to prolonged operation and cyclical forces impacting the machine. A rebuild of the drum filter main components improves reliability and efficiency of the vacuum system. Vacuum system improvements have the added benefit of reducing energy consumption and increasing filter performance. We have rebuilt drum filters in operation for decades, enabling mine operators to rejuvenate their filtration operation without the expense of buying new equipment.

Exchange

Our exchange programme enables you to immediately replace worn parts with as-new reconditioned components. We deliver the new parts to site and remove the worn equipment to our facilities for refurbishing. These renewed parts then become part of our exchange programme. This programme keeps costs down while also reducing the environmental impact of your process.

Improve water recovery and energy efficiency with filtration upgrades

Upgrading, rebuilding and exchanging equipment that is under-performing or simply past its best is an easy win for the environment. A better performing filter yields greater filtration efficiency, ultimately producing a dryer cake, which will result in higher water recovery to the plant.

Rather than buying all-new equipment, upgrades enable you to increase throughput and performance in your existing system, while rebuilding and exchanging worn parts ensures nothing is wasted. Parts can remain in use – and maintain performance – for decades without having to be scrapped and replaced.

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Frequently asked questions

FAQs for filtration upgrades

Filtration can be improved by increasing the solids concentration of the slurry fed to the filter. This means less water has to be removed. Filtration can also be improved by the correct filter cloth selection and regular and effective cleaning of the cloth.

You can increase the rate of filtration by increasing the feed solids concentration of the feed slurry.

Filter life can be extended by performing regular maintenance and routine replacement of filter cloth and worn parts.