News | February 17, 2004

USFilter Expands Line Of Water Technology With CSF Plate Separators

Rothschild, WI - USFilter has expanded its line of inclined plate separators for removing solids from drinking water, industrial water, and filter backwash water.

The USFilter Zimpro Products group has announced its latest offering in plate separator technology - the CSF, or channel supported frameless, plate separator. The CSF system offers several unique features which enhance the hydraulic flow and distribution through the plates and and reduce basin depth requirements by eliminating the need for support beams under the plates.

The CSF separator design, using all stainless steel materials, has been successfully installed at numerous water treatment plants in North America, explains USFilter's Marc Roehl, product manager for inclined plate separators. "The CSF line—along with our traditional line of Zimpro® plate settlers, greatly expands the choices available to our customers," he said.

USFilter is a market leader in supplying inclined plate separators for water treatment, having provided some of the world's largest systems at Detroit, Mich., DeKalb County, Ga., and Gwinnett Co., Ga.

These separators use closely spaced parallel plates, set at an angle, to provide a vast amount of settling area in a compact space. When compared with conventional gravity clarifiers, inclined plates can often provide as much settling capacity in one-tenth the required area.

Millions of people and thousands of companies rely on USFilter every day to help them meet their clean water needs. Headquartered in Palm Desert, Calif., USFilter (www.usfilter.com) is a $1 billion water company with 6,000 experienced professionals dedicated to delivering cost-effective, reliable water and wastewater treatment systems and services to municipal, industrial, commercial and institutional customers worldwide.

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Source: USFilter