Hybrid Filter Press

A batch unit, the HP-hybrid filter press is typically used for products with specialty chemicals volumes in the range of500-3000 gallon batches. Products are processed in an enclosed atmosphere without operator or environmental exposure. FDA requirements, and conformation to good manufacturing practices (GMP) requiring containment of product, are continual issues. Applications are replacement of plate and frame filter presses, and products that are compressible and amorphous in nature with high specific cake resistances. 

Figure 12. HP hybrid filter press. (Courtesy of Heinkel Filtering Systems, Inc.)...

Fermentation and Biochemical Engineering Handbook Hybrid Filter Press... 

Anderson, M.L.M. and Young, B.D., Quantitative filter hybridization, in Nucleic Acid Hybridization A Practical Approach, Hames, B.S. and Higgis, S.J., Eds., IRL Press, Oxford, 1985, chap. 4. 

The third alternative is a filter design that attempts to combine the advantages of frits with the advantages of the woven screens. The solution is a hybrid of woven screen and pressed-powder frit metal powder is pressed and sintered into a loose wire mesh. These filters are as thin as woven screens, but have a significantly larger open area and therefore a larger filtering capacity than woven screens. 

Sajeeb R, Manohar CS, Roy D (2009) A conditionally linearized Monte Carlo filter in nonlinear structural dynamics. Int J Nonlinear Mech 44 776-790 Saouma VE, Sivaselvan MV (eds) (2008) Hybrid simulation theory, implementation and applications. CRC Press, London... 

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