Inclined Tube Thickener

Product Overview

Inclined tube thickener is an efficient solid-liquid separation equipment designed based on the theory of shallow sedimentation. Its core through the addition of honeycomb inclined tube packing, greatly increase the settlement area, shorten the particle settlement distance, so as to realize the excellent performance of no power consumption, high settlement efficiency, very small footprint. The equipment is especially suitable for concentrate classification and concentration operations in tungsten, tin, molybdenum and other rare precious metals beneficiation plants, and also performs well in the field of wastewater treatment in building materials, chemical industry, environmental protection and other industries, making it an ideal choice for realizing water recycling and reducing operating costs.

Core Value

• Extreme energy saving: completely rely on gravity self-flow, without any power drive, realizing true zero energy consumption operation.

• Extremely small footprint: Modular and compact design, the footprint is only 1/12 - 1/20 of a traditional thickener, which significantly saves capital investment.

• High-efficiency settling: The unique inclined tube area doubles the effective settling area, increasing the settling efficiency by 3-5 times compared with the traditional equipment.

• One machine with double effect: it can realize two functions of material classification and thickening and dewatering at the same time, simplifying the process flow.

Core technical parameters

Note: The above processing capacity is the general slurry reference value, which can be customized according to the nature of materials and process requirements.

Core advantages and features

1. Structural design advantages

• Compact design: Breaking through the concept of the traditional thickener's huge pool body, the structure is compact, greatly saving plant space and civil construction costs.

• Modularized structure: the equipment can be prefabricated modularly and assembled quickly on site, which shortens the installation period by more than 50% and makes the deployment flexible and convenient.

• Powerless operation: the whole process of sedimentation and separation does not require motors, rakes and other driving devices, zero energy consumption, zero operating costs, and very low maintenance costs.

2. Advantages of sedimentation performance

• Shallow settling principle: Using Hazen's "shallow pool theory", the settling area is divided into countless shallow settling units through the inclined tube group, which makes the settling path extremely short and the efficiency extremely high.

• Good quality of effluent water: stable settling process, clear overflow water, low suspended solids content, can be directly reused in production or discharge to meet the standards, to realize the circular economy.

• Strong shock load resistance: it has certain adaptability to the fluctuation of incoming material quantity and concentration, and its operation is stable and reliable.

Working Principle

1. Primary settling zone: after the slurry enters into the equipment, the coarse particles with larger specific gravity quickly settle to the bottom of the cone, and are discharged continuously or intermittently as the bottom stream.

2. Inclined pipe separation area: sewage containing fine particles rises into the honeycomb inclined pipe packing area. The particles in contact with the cohesion of the inner wall of the inclined tube, the formation of "flocculation" effect, and along the wall of the tube slides down to concentrate, the clear water is rising.

3. Clear water overflow area: the separated clear water is discharged evenly through the overflow weir at the top, and the fine particles in the water are effectively removed.

Application areas

• Mining classification and concentration: It is especially suitable for concentrate concentration, desliming classification and tailings dewatering in tungsten ore, tin ore, molybdenum ore, gold ore and other heavy separation plants.

• Beneficiation wastewater treatment: treating wastewater of beneficiation plant, recovering clean water and realizing zero discharge of wastewater.

• Building materials and chemical industry: used for the concentration of quartz sand, kaolin, talcum powder and other non-metallic mineral slurry and production wastewater treatment.

• Environmental protection water treatment: as a pretreatment or deep treatment unit for small and medium flow rate wastewater treatment in chemical, metallurgical, coal and other industries.

Customized service: We can customize the inclined angle, aperture and material of the inclined pipe for you according to your actual material characteristics (particle size, concentration) and working condition requirements, so as to ensure the best treatment effect and economic benefits.

With its subversive advantages of no power, high efficiency and small footprint, the inclined pipe thickener provides you with a new choice of solid-liquid separation that is more economical, energy-saving and efficient. Whether it is a new project or the optimization of the existing process, it is a wise move to improve efficiency and reduce costs.