This filter has been widely used in industries such as liquor, fruit wine, low-alcohol, rice wine, medicinal wine, grape wine and water treatment. Its filtration clarity is up to 99.8%, it can filter out particles (including microorganisms) below 1~0.1 microns, and even filter out E. coli.
Natural diatomaceous earth is not a good filter aid. It must be chemically treated, burned, crushed, washed, dried, ground and screened to remove organic and other impurities, improve graininess, porosity and surface properties in order to get good filtration performance.
Diatomaceous earth is a biochemical sedimentary rock formed by the cell wall of diatoms, an aquatic plant thousands of years ago. It has a myriad of small and complex pores, its particle size is very small, 2-100 micrometers in diameter, about 90% is a permeable void, its main component is silica, accounting for 85%-90%. It has good chemical stability, high temperature resistance, insolubility and non-toxicity. This porous particle provides an extremely powerful filtration function that removes particles (including microorganisms and bacteria) from 0.1 to 1 micron and even below 0.1 micron and retains the split.
It has the following features:
- Stable performance and good adaptability. Since the diatomaceous earth filter aid is mainly composed of silica, it is chemically stable and is suitable for use in cold and hot conditions and different concentrations of acid, without affecting the basic properties of the stock solution.
- High filtration efficiency and high clarity. The filter aids are of various sizes, the skeleton is hard, rich in single holes, multi-holes and many other shapes, so that the filter layer can not be tightly aggregated, has a large surface area and a large porosity, and achieves high filtration efficiency and the ideal clarity.
- Diatomaceous earth has a degerming effect. It has fine particles and forms a bio-protective film on the membrane to remove most pathogens.