Aluminum Company of America

Rajakkannu Mutharasan

Diran Apelian

C Edward Eckert

David H DeYoung

Thomas R Hornack

Ronald E Miller

Clarence J Cox

John A Kaems

George E Lyness

Molten metal containing suspended liquid particles is passed preferably generally upwardly through a porous media so constructed and arranged such that the movement of the molten metal therethrough renders the suspended liquid particles gravity separable. The gravity separable liquid particles rise upwardly or settle downwardly so as to be removable from said molten metal for subsequent removal therefrom. An associated apparatus is also provided.

Method for separation and removal of suspended liquid particles from

A filter system for removing solid impurities from molten metal is described comprising a housing containing vertically disposed rigid coarse filter facing the incoming flow of molten metal and capable of removing solids having a particle size of at least 10 microns and a rigid fine filter mounted vertically behind the coarse filter and capable of removing solids having a particle size as small as 1 micron. The apparatus further includes a heater for maintaining the temperature of the molten metal and a sparger mounted adjacent the front face of one filter to provide an intermittent gas flow over the face of the filter to dislodge solids on the filter as filter cake. In a preferred embodiment, the rigid filters are nested cylinders, and the molten metal is directed to the center of the smaller coarse filter cylinder from which it then flows through the coarse filter outward to and through the fine filter cylinder and then from the fine filter out of the filter housing.

Multistage rigid media filter for molten metal and method of filtering

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Broomall, PA, United States of America

Rajakkannu Mutharasan