What is an Industrial Centrifuge?

“SUE” Manual Top Discharge & Bag Lifting industrial centrifuge is a machine used for fluid/particle separation. Centrifuges rely on the use of centrifugal force, generating several hundreds or thousands of times earth’s gravity. Industrial centrifuges are used for separating solids from liquids, liquid-liquid separation, and liquid-liquid-solid separation. Industrial centrifuges can be classified into two main types: sedimentation and filtering centrifuges. Sedimentation centrifuges use centrifugal force to separate solids from liquids, as well as two liquids with different specific gravities. Sedimentation centrifuges include decanter, disk-stack, solid-bowl basket and tubular bowl centrifuges. Filtering centrifuges use centrifugal force to pass a liquid through a filtration media, such as a screen or cloth while solids are captured by the filtering media. Filtering centrifuges primarily deal with perforate basket, pusher and peeler centrifuges. These centrifuges are used in a wide variety of process industries which can be divided into several categories:

  • Chemical processing which produces raw products such as acids, salts, oil refinery by-products, polymers, oil-water-solids, and so on.
  • Wastewater processing deals with separation of municipal, farm, DAF (dissolved air flotation), trap grease, drilling mud, and environmental wastewater sludges.
  • Fuel and Biofuel industry including synthetic fuels, biodiesel, ethanol, cellulosic ethanol, algae biomass dewatering; fuel and lube oil purification, etc.
  • Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology industries that manufacture drugs, vaccines, medicines, penicillin, mycelia, E-coli bacteria, algae, enzymatic waste, etc.
  • Mining and mineral processing including coal, tar sands, copper, precious metals, calcium carbonate, kaolin clay, and many more.
  • Food Processing which deals with refining of vegetable oils, dairy (milk, cheese, etc.); fruit and vegetable juice; clarification, etc.

It is estimated there are approximately 200 specific applications industrial centrifuges are used for a specific application to be used in.

 

We have following main models: