Water/Waste Processing - Feb 2012
Eaton Filters Answer the Call Through its more than 40 year history Global Defense Technology Systems Inc GTEC has been providing mission critical technology based systems solutions and services for national security agencies and other programs of the United States government Recently the company secured a contract with the U S Department of Defense to provide the U S Army with important support systems in the recycling of water for troops based in Afghanistan As part of that contract GTEC is delivering Expeditionary Tricon Systems that incorporate the latest advances in approved Shower Water Reuse Systems Designed to support the Armys need in Afghanistan the systems are rapidly deployable lightweight rugged easily transportable and require a minimal set up time of roughly 45 minutes Challenges In order to be fully effective the GTEC systems required a filtration set up that is affordable efficient easily maintained and fully capable of meeting the rugged demands of an active combat base To help ensure that all of these requirements were met GTEC tested different filtration technologies for more than five years including systems that required labor intensive manual cleaning The need for a self cleaning filter was determined early in the design of the overall system says Rich Riddle GTECs director of Advanced Systems In this application hair removal from the waste stream was a primary challenge that would need to be handled by the filter which needed to serve as a pre filter upstream of a micro filter He adds that not only did the ultimate challenge for the filtration set up require the removal of large quantities of human hair but it also required the removal of large quantities of horsehair To best accomplish this GTEC engineers discovered after 16 February 2012 Water Waste Processing www waterwaste com initial testing that a 15 micron wedge wire type filter media was needed Solution Eatons DCF 800 mechanically cleaned filter was eventually selected to meet these challenges Operating at a consistently low differential pressure the DCF filters eliminate disposable filter bags and cartridges reduce operator handling and are virtually maintenance free with near 100 percent uptime Since the Shower Water Reuse Systems are designed for Shower Reuse Systems Save Lives in Afghanistan
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