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What is a Solid Bowl Centrifuge?
In many industries a solid bowl centrifuge is the tool-of-choice for separating solids from liquids, recovering solids or liquids from slurries, clarifying liquids, and classifying solids. Fundamentally, this is “clarification ...
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An Overview of the Centrifugal Dewatering Process
There are many approaches to dewatering: belt presses, screw decanters, two- and three-phase centrifuges, even membrane-based ultrafiltration. Each has its strengths—as well as notable weaknesses. For many applications, centrifuge ...
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Types of Centrifuges and their Applications
On one level, all centrifugation is essentially the same. Gravity will always naturally separate materials of different densities. Using a centrifuge you can speed up and fine tune this natural separation and sedimentation process. Broadly ...
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What is an Emulsion Breaker?
Before we delve into emulsion breakers, let’s make sure we’re all on the same page. At its most basic, an emulsion is a mixture of two (or more) liquids that won’t normally mix (i.e., are “immiscible”). Oil and water ...
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Centrifugal Separators: Working Principle and Design
If you’ve ever bought Italian salad dressing, you understand the fundamental principles of sedimentation and centrifugal separation. Before you dig into your salad, you give that bottle a good hard shake, mixing together the vinegar, olive ...
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How Do Centrifuges Clarify Liquids and Beverages?
Clarification is an extremely important step in beverage production. Particulate impurities (dirt and grit, yeast bodies, udder cells, or anything else) need to be separated for removal prior to homogenization and pasteurization of juice or milk. ...
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Choosing a Centrifuge Over a Belt Press: Considerations
In many industries belt presses are the “safe bet”. Because the technology is older, it’s more likely that operators have experience with it. The start-up costs can seem quite reasonable. And the open design makes the ...
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What is Stokes` Law?
Stokes’ Law is the key to modern centrifugation. Understanding it—and its implications—has had a huge impact on an unlikely array of businesses: dairies, breweries, manufacturing facilities and machine shops, ethanol plants, ...
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Why Craft Breweries should Get a Centrifuge for Brewing
As the world comes out of COVID hibernation, many craft and small breweries are realizing that off-premises sales and packaged beer are going to continue to be their bread and butter for the foreseeable future. As Jack Hendler (co-founder of ...
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Video Provides a Great Overview of CentraSep Centrifuges
CentraSep Centrifuges’ new video has been updated with shots from the new facility, and includes additional equipment like a new table top centrifugal testing unit and more. This video is a great way to learn more about CentraSep, and the ...
