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Airpel Filtration Ltd. is a leading manufacturer and supplier of Self Cleaning Filters for liquid filtration. The Airpel headquarters and manufacturing facility is located at Newbury, Berkshire, England, west of London.
Founded in 1939, Airpel is now a part of SPX Corporation, a major international engineering group. The company maintains close contact with the changing needs of the market through its direct sales force and through an established worldwide network of agents and distributors. In the U.S. Airpel's sole distributor is Filtration Midwest, Inc. Filtration Midwest maintains a network of professional representatives across the U.S. who promote Airpel's complete line of filtration products, including their Duplex Basket Strainers, Simplex Basket Strainers, and Self-Cleaning Filters.
Airpel's manufacturing facility uses the latest CNC machinery in the production of the Airpel range of quality Self Cleaning Filters. Airpel is continually updating the production machinery and processes to ensure its manufacturing methods reflect the latest modern production practices.
Committed to a policy of total Quality Assurance, Airpel has been accredited with ISO 9001 since 1987. With over 60 years experience in the design and manufacture of liquid filtration products Airpel operates from a position of knowledge and authority within the filtration industry. Airpel works together with many companies worldwide in a partnership dedicated to solving filtration problems. Airpel's wealth of experience and expertise could help solve your filtration requirements.
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Airpel offers four forms of blade type Self Cleaning Filter (SCF), all working on the same basic principle. In-coming fluid passes through a wedgewire or perforated element before exiting the filter body. The debris is trapped on the outside of the element. The micron rating of the element is the spacing of the wedgewire or the diameter of the perforations. As debris collects on the outside of the element and progressively blocks the openings, the differential pressure increases. The element is cleaned by rotating it against a pair of stationary scraper blades. These scraper blades lift the debris from the element and the debris tends to move down the channel formed by the blade shield. The effects of gravity then cause the debris to sink into the sump of the filter, where it can be periodically drained.
The Airpel Self Cleaning Filters can be cleaned without disrupting the liquid flow. Because the element cleaning operation is independent of the debris draining operation a number of cleaning cycles can be performed before it is necessary to drain the debris from the filter sump. Liquid loss is therefore minimized. (Some operators, especially those on batch pro-duction, do not drain the filter during the batch run. This eliminates the liquid loss until the final wash-out of the process pipework.)
Airpel Self Cleaning Filters can be manually operated, fully automated, or motorized only (electric or pneumatic). The Self Cleaning Filters can be used on fluids of all viscosities. Filtration from 50 microns and up.
P.O. Box 12456 Wilmington, NC 28405 Phone: (910)790-1906 Fax: (910) 790-1099 E-mail: filtration@filtrationmidwest.com |
