plate press

A development of the plate-and-frame filter press in which the filtration cavity is created by two adjacent corrugated, recessed plates.  In both cases, the plates are covered with filter cloth and the slurry is pumped into the cavity under very high pressure.  Water passes through the cloth and the cavity fills with the suspended solids, the filter cake.  The cake is discharged by separating the plates.

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