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I'm Jim Lauria, I'm vice president of marketing and business development for
Amiad Filtration Systems.
Amiad manufactures clean technology water filtration systems
for industrial, municipal, agricultural and commercial applications. Basically
we like to think of it as
safeguarding downstream processes. What we do is we remove suspended solids
and by removing the suspended solids we make those downstream processes more
efficient -- we protect the membranes, the heat exchange equipment,
the disinfection processes, so they can operate more efficiently and uh...
less labor intensive, less maintenance is required for their operation.
We try to put the burden on our filtration technology so that you don't
have as much disposal and purchase of the downstream cartridges in and bags.
This is
an SAF 6000
automatic self-cleaning filter. It automatically cleans when it reaches a
pressure differential -- in this case, on this particular one of seven psi -- and
when it reaches that differential pressure
a flush valve opens
and it automatically flushes -- back flushes -- dirt off the screen
into the waste stream.
Amiad has some unique innovative technology behind the
systems.
Internally
we have a four-layer screen that is
only used by our
filtration technology and this provides provides more open area, more filtration
surface to remove more dirt particles in the process.
We also have a special suction scanning technology, and around that suction
scanning technology we have these spring-loaded nozzles that do a better
job of cleaning the filtration surface and also
producing less back flush water when it does go into its cleaning mode.
The backwash water goes down the drain and any water that goes down the drain
is wasted, so with our technology you want more water to go forward
to the next process rather than going down the drain.
Also a lot of that back flush water sometimes contains some chemicals,
contains some heat that you don't want to waste --
so obviously you want to keep that in the process and not waste that either --
chemicals or heat going down the drain. And finally it's putting more load on the
waste treatment system if you're putting more back flush there. So for
those three reasons it's pretty important to minimize the back flush water.
The more load you put on this
with no consumables then the less consumables, the bags or filter
cartridges downstream, you'll be disposing of, so you're saving money in
terms of buying the cartridges or bags in terms of disposing the cartridges and
bags and also the labor takes to actually change out the bags or
cartridges.