Comprehensive Guide to Sifting Methods
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Concept
Characteristics
Process
Methods
Sieving equipment
Characteristics of sieving
The sieving action may vary according to different densities and the different
textures of the materials
The sifting time can be automatically set to ensure
repeatable results
Separated fractions (including those below 5 micrometers) are recoverable.
for a later evaluation after the analysis is completed
All sieves can be directly and practically tared on balances.
conventional analytics, eliminating the need to transfer retained samples
for the determination of masses
The special sieves with a transparent acrylic frame allow the operator to see and
correctly determine the power level and the endpoint of the test.
Team classification
Industrial screens
•From bars. It is used for particles larger than 2.5 cm. It consists of a
parallel bars group (2.4-3cm long) and rakes (0.9-1.20m)
•Rotary drum. Also called centrifugal drums or trommels. It is
formed by a sieve of cylindrical or truncated-conical shape, which rotates on its axis.
They are made up of cylinders of mesh or perforated metal sheet that rolls.
in almost horizontal position. The composite drum is made up of two or more
sieving surfaces, mounted concentrically on the same axis. There are
concentric, parallel or series-connected drums.
•Flat or vibrating bed. They are made up of a series of sieves.
inclined or horizontal ones gathered and fixed inside a metal frame
hermetically sealed from dust, and agitated by different devices
Fixed. They are used in intermittent small-scale operations, such as screening.
arena, gravel, and coal. They are constructed with perforated metal plates as well.
metallic fabrics (60th sexagesimal). When there is a high tonnage, the fixed screens
they are replaced by vibrating ones.
Laboratory sieves
For water treatment. The sieves used here, in the process of
roughing for the pretreatment of water, they proceed to remove large solids and
dissolved in water. We can also describe the filters for air, with special
application in extruder machines, pigmenting machines, vibrating machines, sieves. They allow
the passage of clean air free of oil and water vapors; they act through a
stainless steel filter or mesh is placed inside the machine to clean the
flow of fluids, powders, and liquids. Regarding the so-called sieves.
Electronics are used for sifting in various processes, they are indicated in
small sample tests, of dry type and wet method, are programmable and
they have a fastening system with different layers of sieves, for different types of
powder: coarse, fine, and very fine.
Molecular. They participate in the adsorption process. They are specifically sieves.
from the laboratory that are used to test liquids and various solutions.