DELKOR Filter Press

Three DELKOR Filter Presses were provided as part of the gold mine processing plant’s gold tailings dewatering system. Each machine features mixed membrane filter plates together with a high-pressure cloth-washing robot and boasts a processing capacity of ~120 m3/h gold tailing sludge (~71 t/h of dry solids). The supply also included various ancillary equipment, including: belt conveyors for cakes discharged from the filter press (each machine is equipped with a cake breaker), pumping skids for membrane inflation, filter cake washing pumps and high-pressure cloth washing pumps. The entire scope of supply, including the slurry feed pumps, is fully controlled and managed by state-of-the-art software. Within this system, filter cakes are washed inside the filter with process water in order to remove any unwanted residual cyanides. The process designed for this application also includes cake squeezing (with pressurized water) and cake air blowing in order to achieve lower moisture levels within the final product.