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S&L FIBROTEX - Filter
FIBROTEX® technology employs an expandable-bed fibrous filter element with a PLC. This enables the fibrous filter both to efficiently backwash itself automatically when fully loaded with solids, and to achieve exceptionally fine levels of filtration.
FIBROTEX® offers a significantly better filtrate and backwash efficiency and a much smaller footprint (75% less typically) when compared to sand and other multimedia filters. Backwash water acts as a carrier to remove the displaced particulates rather than as the primary cleaning agent as in other backwashable depth filters. As a result, backwashing is highly efficient and requires a low volume of backwash water. Backwash rates are typically less than 2% of the filtrate and last only for a few minutes. Employing multiple units allows for continual flow and operation 24 hours a day with standby capacity available – even during backwash cycles.
- Capacity: 100 GPM (6 lps) – 50 MGD (19,000 cmd)
- Models AX5: AX200 (Single to multiple unit config.)
- Backwash: 3-5 minutes
- Fine particle filtration
- Prefiltration to RO ((for SDI removal)
- Pathogen filtration from well water sources
- Turbidity removal
- Iron and manganese removal
- Wastewater reclamation
- Suspended solids removal
- Rated as a fine filter, filtering particles as small as 1-2 microns
- Requires only 25% of the floor space of traditional multimedia filters
- Significantly less backwash water rate
- Fully automatic with PLC controls