Filtralite products - Overview
Filtralite® products are made of expanded clay aggregates; they are available in 3 different particles densities:
Abbreviation | Definition | Particle density |
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N | Normal density | 1100 kg/m3 |
M | Medium density | 1300 kg/m3 |
H | High density | 1700 kg/m3 |
The production process can also include a crushing phase in order to gain access to the internal pore structure of the aggregates and increase the specific surface area (SSA). Some Filtralite® products are not crushed, and available in a "round" form.
Abbreviation | Definition |
---|---|
C |
Crushed |
R |
Round |
The production process ends with a sieving phase to obtain specific grain size fractions.
The Filtralite® products are divided into 4 groups according to their application:
- Filtralite® PURE for drinking water solutions, including treatment prior to desalination, both for physical filtration and biological removal.
- Filtralite® CLEAN for for wastewater treatment,both for biological process and tertiary filtration.
- Filtralite® NATURE for onsite water remediation. Nature-P is enriched with natural dolomite to increase phosphorus removal properties.
- Filtralite® AIR for odour treatment based on biological process.
The table below gives an overview of the Filtralite® products:
Filtralite® product | Grain size [mm]* | Bulk density [kg/m3] | Particle density [kg/m3]** | Voids |
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* undersize and oversize are inferior to 5%, respectively.
** Average value. Specific batch can vary +/- 15% from this value.
Our recommended solutions include:
- Filtralite® PURE Mono-Multi which is a combination of HC material 0.8-1.6 (bottom layer) and NC 1.5-2.5. (upper layer), this dual media is analogue to sand and anthracite filters.
- The Filtralite® PURE Mono-Multi Fine solution is similar, but a finer fraction is used for each layer.
- The best material for carrying out the biological process in drinking water treatment (removal of NH4, NO3, Mn, Fe, ...) is Filtralite® PURE HC 2,5-5.
- For biological wastewater treatment processes Filtralite® CLEAN HC 2,5-5 for nitrification, HR 3-6 and HR 4-8 for denitrification. Filtralite® CLEAN MC 2,5-4 for the final filtration of wastewater.
Settling velocity control is an important parameter of success of our solutions : more details can be found here.
Chemical composition of the Filtralite® products is as follows:
SiO2 | Al2O3 | Fe2O3 | K2O | CaO | Na2O |
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63% | 17% | 7% | 4% | 2% | 2% |