New belt press range for the environment industry

Inter­na­tion­al tech­nol­o­gy group ANDRITZ presents the SME‑Q and the SMX‑Q, the new belt press­es for the envi­ron­ment indus­try reflect­ing the very lat­est state of the art. Due to their low-pro­file com­po­nents, they are extreme­ly oper­a­tor-friend­ly and fea­ture high qual­i­ty design with low main­te­nance needs, thus ensur­ing max­i­mum per­for­mance in terms of dry­ness and throughput.

Dif­fer­ent Mod­els for a wide range of requirements

The medi­um-pres­sure belt fil­ter press­es in the new SME‑Q range are suit­able pri­mar­i­ly for stan­dard and medi­um duty per­for­mance lev­els, while the high-pres­sure belt press­es in the SMX‑Q series were devel­oped for medi­um to heavy-duty per­for­mance lev­els where each indi­vid­ual machine must achieve high through­puts. The two machines include the same fea­tures in terms of design and have an extra-long thick­en­ing zone, a cam­ber wedge for a steady, opti­mized pres­sure increase, a low pro­file, and an open, stain­less steel frame struc­ture for easy access. Both mod­els will pro­vide excel­lent oper­at­ing avail­abil­i­ty and reli­a­bil­i­ty in operation.

Investe­ment ver­sus through­put and perfomance

Com­pared to the SMX‑Q, the medi­um-pres­sure belt press SME‑Q pro­vides a small­er foot­print at low­er invest­ment cost and has been specif­i­cal­ly devel­oped for small to medi­um-sized sewage treat­ment plants and for indus­tri­al appli­ca­tions. The invest­ment costs are low due to its opti­mized struc­tur­al weight. In addi­tion, the inno­v­a­tive design of the belt press makes it pos­si­ble to dis­man­tle parts of the machine quick­ly and eas­i­ly so that it can be trans­port­ed in con­ven­tion­al con­tain­ers or on stan­dard-size trucks.

The high-pres­sure belt press SMX‑Q deliv­ers high­est through­puts thanks to its large fil­tra­tion and press­ing area. Its robust frame struc­ture gen­er­ates high belt ten­sion and high pres­sure on the sludge to pro­vide the best dewa­ter­ing per­for­mance for a belt press. The spe­cif­ic fea­tures of the SMX‑Q enable this machine to be adapt­ed to almost any appli­ca­tion – even with the most chal­leng­ing dewa­ter­ing requirements.

Among the advan­tages of the new ANDRITZ belt press­es are the low­er invest­ment costs (SME‑Q) com­pared to oth­er prod­ucts cur­rent­ly avail­able on the mar­ket, per­fect dewa­ter­ing results, high­est through­puts, and low­est resid­ual mois­ture. They offer the right tech­ni­cal solu­tion for munic­i­pal and indus­tri­al sludge treat­ment plants, for thick­en­ing and dewa­ter­ing in a sin­gle stage (thanks to the effi­cient thick­en­ing zone or com­bi­na­tion with a grav­i­ty table) and for achiev­ing high effi­cien­cy in spe­cif­ic appli­ca­tions such as pulp and paper, manure, bio­gas, slaugh­ter­house and chem­i­cal sludges.

ANDRITZ SEPARATION

Pro­vides mechan­i­cal and ther­mal tech­nolo­gies and ser­vices for solid/liquid sep­a­ra­tion, serv­ing the chem­i­cal, envi­ron­men­tal, food, min­ing and min­er­als indus­tries. The cus­tomized, inno­v­a­tive solu­tions focus on min­i­miz­ing the use of resources and achiev­ing high­est process effi­cien­cy, thus mak­ing a sub­stan­tial con­tri­bu­tion towards sus­tain­able envi­ron­men­tal pro­tec­tion. In addi­tion, the busi­ness area offers tech­nolo­gies and ser­vices for the pro­duc­tion of ani­mal feed and bio­mass pellets.