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Strainers

Waterex offers a wide range of manual and fully automatic strainers for use in the mining, hydrometallurgical, process, industrial and oil & gas industries. These units may be supplied as skid mounted or stand-alone units.

Automatic Strainers (Kleerflo)

Kleerflo is a fully automatic backwashing filter/strainer that is used in a number of differing industries to remove suspended solids from water.  Among its applications are:
  • Alkali and detergent wash systems cleaning-in-place
  • Cooling systems sea and fresh water
  • Effluent systems
  • Fire water circuits
  • Gland seals
  • Heat exchanger protection
  • Injection systems surface and subsea
  • Irrigation systems
  • Machinery protection
  • Make-up water/membrane pre-filtration
  • Nozzle protection
  • Polymer make-up
  • process and plant supply water
  • Refrigeration systems
  • Robot welding protection
  • Sand filter
  • Protection
  • Spray bar protection
  • Thickener overflow
  • Wash-down water
  • Washing systems
  • Water test facilities

Technical Data

  • Areas of application   -   Filtration of water and certain liquids
  • Flow rates   -   Up to 4000m3/hr, unlimited units
  • Nominal line sizes   -   50 to 800mm
  • Flange connections   -   As per requirement
  • Filtering apertures   -   80 to 4000µm
  • Operating pressures   -   As per requirement
  • Temperature   -   Up to 70ºC
  • Housing materials   -   Carbon steel, stainless steel, GRP or exotic material as per requirement
  • Manufacturing   -   Sound engineering practice or to recognised codes as per requirement
  • Corrosion protection   -   Fusion bonded epoxy.  Thermoplastic nylon or as per requirement
  • Screen type and material   -   Wedge wire, stainless steel 316L or exotic materials as per requirement
  • Other internal wetted parts   -   Stainless steel 304L, 316L or exotic materials as per requirement
  • Skid mounting   -   As per requirement
  • Backwashing medium   -   Filtrate or external source
  • Controls   -   Fully integrated microprocessor based control system housed in IP65 weather-proof enclosure or client supply.  Systems also available for zones areas.

Automatic Backwashing / No Hassle / Low maintenance