Industrial Filtration

Reliable, efficient & advanced filtration solutions

Strong legacy Metso Outotec has nearly a century of

experience in supplying filtration equipment and services through different brands.

Sustainable productivity Our filtration solutions meet the challenging requirements in a variety of process industries

due to their flexible operation, design and superior results. Our portfolio offers a range

of models for various capacities.

Engineered for industrial processes A leading developer of solid-liquid

separation products and solutions with industrial processes at the core.

Leading process know-how Metso Outotec has a unique Dewatering

Technology Center (DTC) in Lappeenranta, Finland where R&D and testing is done with close cooperation on research with

universities.

Enriching Modern Life with Metso Outotec SolutionsWith almost a century of experience in supplying filtration equipment and services, Metso Outotec provides reliable, efficient and advanced filtration solutions for a wide range of industrial applications. Our comprehensive and industry-leading service support, global network, and world-class team of experts allow us to find the most effective solutions for the most demanding challenges that our clients might face in their daily work.

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Planet Positive

Sustainability is one of Metso Outotec’s key strategic priorities, we are committed to limiting global warming to 1.5 °C. The filtration solutions are a part of the Planet Positive offering, since they are designed to improve water efficiency, lower emissions and amount of energy consumed.

Planet Positive is our all-encompassing approach to sustainability, which covers the environmental, social and financial aspects. Our Planet Positive offering has a central role in our sustainability agenda and 1.5 °C journey as it represents the key means of improving the resource efficiency of our customers’ operations.

Our long-term goal is to provide customers with products and services that are even more sustainable. We will continuously develop our filtration offering, with a focus on energy efficiency, reducing emissions, water efficiency, circular solutions and safety.

Powering Production Filtration makes industrial processes possible. From fluid catalytic cracking used in the production of gasoline to the refinement of industrial minerals used in construction and daily household products, it all goes through a filter.

Driving Commerce From shopping bags and paper packaging for takeout to the pigments and dyes in clothing, the world of commerce relies on filtration for goods and services.

Sustaining Everyday Life Industrial filtration also plays a critical role in our daily sustenance, impacting the foods we eat, the way we cook and the vitamins we take every day.

Learn more about the role industrial filtration plays in today`s modern world.

From pharmaceuticals and dietary supplements to polymers, plastics and dyes, industrial filtration plays a crucial role in the modern world. Separating solids from liquids through filters is a critical step in a wide variety of industrial processes. Filtration solutions in the chemical processing industry can enhance operational efficiency, product quality, yield and consistency while improving the safety, health and environmental performance of products we use on a daily basis.

How Industrial Filtration Enriches Modern Life

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As an established leader in industrial filtration systems, Metso Outotec can improve filtration capacity, productivity, environmental impact and safety across a broad array of markets and applications.

Diverse applications

Chemicals • Zeolite

• Toner

• CMC

• Agrochemicals

• Pigments and dyestuffs

Food • Starch

• Edible oils

• Hydrolyzed protein

• Palm oil

• Shea

• Sterols

Pharmaceuticals • Amino acids

• Antibiotics

• Antacids

• Vitamins

Pulp and paper • Lignin

• Green liquor

• White mud

Bio products• Bio-ethanol

• Bio-lignin

• Biomass

Industrial minerals• Calcium Carbonate

(PCC & GCC)

• TiO2

• Silica

• Kaolin

• Talc

Rubber and plastics• Polymers and resins

• ABS/MBS

• PPS

• Viton

• Additives, vulcanizers,

anti oxidizers, silica..

Metallurgy• Lithium brine

• Metal salts

• Alumina

• Borates

Waste process • Soda ash waste

• Sulphur

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Industrial filtration portfolioWe work to understand global trends, but also consider each market and customer’s challenges and goals. Metso Outotec filtration portfolio offers a wide range of models for various capacities, providing the clients with the most optimal filter type for their processes. All filters are designed for easy maintenance and consistent results under varying process condition. Our filters provide safe and reliable operation from fully automatic filtration, and as a result, it leads to low overall operating costs and competitive total cost of ownership.

Customer benefits:

• Productivity: fully automated to continuous production, maximum efficiency, high pressures and expandable filtration area

• Overall Equipment Efficiency: quality, availability & reliability, process & technical performance and optimized Total Cost of Ownership

• Environment: high water recovery, low residual moisture and energy efficiency

• Safety: designed from bottom to top with safety in mind for safe operation and maintenance

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Pressure filtrationLarox® PF filter

Pressure filtrationLarox® PF-DS filter

Designed for easy maintenance, superior performance, and consistent results under varying process conditions. Larox® PF pressure filters are fully automatic recessed-plate diaphragm filters with horizontally oriented chambers. The continuous filter cloth ensures thorough cloth washing and efficient cake discharge from each chamber at every cycle.

A flexible filter for difficult applications enabling consistent production with reduced downtime. Larox PF-DS filters feature various cake washing options, high corrosion resistance, fume tight cover, range of applications, next generation automation and low footprint and low footprint, guaranteeing flexible processing.

Benefits:

• High capacity with proven efficiency and reliability

• Fully automatic operation, self- diagnostics, and flexible operation

• Efficient cake washing

• Reduced floor space requirements

• Advanced filtration efficiency for a wide range of applications

• Production of dry, consistent, and homogenous filter cake and efficient solids wash

Benefits:• Excellent handling of difficult and slow-filtering materials

• Full automation for consistent results under varying process conditions

• Multiple cake washing options

• Ability to handle corrosive process conditions

• Safe and easy operation and maintenance

• Option for full FDA compliant polypropylene plate pack for food and pharmaceutical applications

Key features:

• 1,6-168 m² filtration area• Up to 16 bars operating pressure• 33, 40, 45 and 60 mm chamber depth• Next Gen automation system

Key features:

• 38 m²-94 m² filtration area• Up to 16 bars operating pressure• 25, 40 and 50 mm chamber depth• Next Gen automation system

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Pressure filtrationTube press filter

Vacuum filtrationLarox® RT-GT filter

Designed to be used in demanding dewatering applications with ultra-fine, compressible, materials, Metso Outotec Tube press filters are proven to produce dry cakes, even from ultra-fine particle slurries, with less energy. The Tube press is a cylindrical high pressure filter, with an operating pressure of up to 100 bar. The high pressures enable a higher degree of separation of the liquid and solid phases.

With safe and optimized single unit, multi-step processing and world-class cake washing efficiency, Larox RT-GT filters are suitable for a wide range of complex Industrial & Chemical Processing Industry applications. Their completely sealed and enclosed design, gas tight and fully automatic operation make the filters safe to operate.

Benefits:

• Superior performance with higher output rates

• Flexibility due to cake wash and air purge options, variable chamber depth and easily expandable plants

• Full automation yielding big savings in the labor costs

• Suitable for wide range of applications and operational requirements

Benefits:• Fully automatic operation eliminating the need for constant supervision

• Extremely high product availability

• Minimal maintenance requirements with low operation costs

• A long filter lifetime thanks to the robust construction and wide selection of materials

• FDA compliant design for foodand pharmaceuticals applications available

• Option for thermal drying with hot gas

Key features:

• Up to 100 bar operating pressure• 3,45 m² / 200 l. per tube• Low maintenance, Low OPEX (few moving parts)• Easily scalable into filtration plants

Key features:

• 1.6-63 m² filtration area

• Gas tight solvent based processing

• Continuous operation

• Superior cake washing

• Gas tight solvent based processing in a fully inert atmosphere (ATEX compliant)

• High availability with low OPEX

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Vacuum filtrationLarox® RT filter

Polishing filtrationDM filter

Larox RT fiters offer safe and optimized multi-step processing in a single unit for a wide range of complex Industrial & Chemical Processing Industry applications. Featuring world-class cake washing efficiency and technology proven in hundreds different processes. High availability and a long filter cloth lifetime with the special cloth tracking system.

Specially designed for excellent removal of entrained organic and suspended solids from electrolyte or crystallizer feeds, utilizing the well proven dual media concept. The Metso Outotec DM filters can be delivered as an integral part of Metso Outotec’s SX- or crystallization- technology delivery or as a stand-alone solution for engineering companies and end users.

Benefits:

• Continuous separation of slurries into filter cake and clear filtrate

• Counter or co-current cake washing

• Option to increase dry solids through mechanical compression

• Option for thermal drying with hot gas (air, steam) or infra red

• Minimal maintenance requirements

• FDA compliant design for food and pharmaceuticals applications available

• Plastic wetted parts available for corrosive process conditions

Benefits:

• High quality filtration

• High capacity and expandable

• Reduced operational costs

• Low operating pressure

• Metso Outotec SX-EW and crystallization technology know-how

Key features:

• 1.6-63 m² filtration area

• Suitable for various applications

• Continuous operation

• Superior cake washing

• True multi-step processing

• High availability with low OPEX

Key features:

• Suitable for flows from less than 1m3/h up to 1270m3/h• Reduces entrained organic and particulates to a level of few ppm• Low operating pressure, low operating cost• Fully automatic operation• Designed to operate in Ex-proof area

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Polishing filtrationLSF filter

Maximize your operation with cost efficient, reliable and proven filtration technology for high-capacity polishing applications. Metso Outotec LSF filters absorption technology reduces particle concentrations to a level of parts per million. Production capacities increase, as do the quality of plant and refinery end products.

Benefits:

• Maximized cloth life through highly effective cleaning

• Minimized space requirements due to compact construction and high unit capacity

• Decreased maintenance with no need for frequent supervision

• Reduced operational costs as filter aids are rarely needed

• Lowered operating costs with low energy requirements

Key features:

• 15-720 m² filtration area• Low operating pressure, low operation cost• Fully automatic operation• Flows up to 576m3 with single unit

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Process engineering and testing

Decades of testing experience resulting

in more than 14 000 test cases in the dewatering database (allowing the determination of suitability of the

filter type)

Unique world-class Dewatering

Technology Center located

in Lappeenranta, Finland

Global footprint with dewatering laboratories in 12

countries and testing capabilities in more than 50 countries

Capabilities to test all Metso Outotec filtration

equipment

All test equipment are suitable for in-house and on-site testing

Able to accommodate

customers’ requests for different sample sizes with bench, lab and pilot scale

equipment

Close cooperation with universities on separation

technology research

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Metso Outotec is a frontrunner in sustainable technologies, end-to-end solutions and services for the aggregates, minerals processing and metals refining industries globally. By improving our customers’ energy and water efficiency, increasing their productivity, and reducing environmental risks with our product and process expertise, we are the partner for positive change.

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