GAS FILTERS
• Gas works, Mining, Chemical
• Air cleansing machinery
• Spun bonded nylon, glass fibre
• Health and environmentally efficient, long-life, durable, high dirt hold
capacity
• Kleenex tissues were originally used as filters in gas masks
CARBON FILTERS
• Chemical, Food and Beverage, Mining
• Beer fermentation, Cigarettes
• Highly efficient, non-reusable, low maintenance, absorbs deposits, statically
charged
• Smirnoff vodka is filtered through carbon, filtering out impurities and
giving better colour and taste
PROCESS (STRAINERS)
• Food and Beverage, Chemical, Water and Sewage
• Coffee percolator, Sewage separators
• Media must adhere to health and safety regulation specifics; wedge wire
screens, perforated steel, woven wire mesh
• Re-usable, cost effective, easily maintained, pump protection, rated to
50 micron – 4mm
• In 1865, coffee percolators appeared in Europe and America thanks to inventor
James Mason
SEPARATOR (Coalescing) Filters
• Fuel, Chemical, Oil Refineries
• Diesel Polishing
• Glass Micro fibres, needle felts, synthetic material
• Particles adhere to fibres and not passed through filter, efficient, flow
rates from 20-1000 litres/min
• Coalescing filters are one of the most recent filters to be produced, first
tested in the 1980’s