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High quality Food Grade Expanded Perlite for use in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing, Food Production and Water Fitration Systems - details see: https://www.machineto.com/expanded-perlite-filter-aid-ezflow-20-10216088

EZFlow Filter Aid

The Uniform, Low Density Filter Aid for Economical Liquid/Solid Separation

EZFlow Filter Aid is Expanded Micronized Perlite, a naturally occurring siliceous volcanic rock readily available throughout the world. A unique property of perlite is that it expands up to 20 times its original volume when it is heated to its softening range. This expansion process is caused by the presence of water in the crude rock. When perlite ore is rapidly heated to above 850°C this water vaporizes and causes the softened rock to expand. Tiny glass-like bubbles are produced which account for the lightweight and exceptional physical properties of EZFlow Filter Aid

It is these light weight glass like bubbles that are milled and graded under stringent quality control conditions to produce EZFlow Filter Aid. This material exhibits a unique, jagged, interlocking structure with myriads of microscopic channels affording optimum flow rates and clarities for a wide variety of applications. EZFlow Filter Aid does not impart taste, colour or odour to liquids being filtered and they are virtually insoluble in mineral and organic acids at all temperatures. Solubility in strong alkaline environments varies depending on temperature and contact time

Major Cost Advantage

EZFlow Filter Aid provide the user with a density advantage of from 20 to 50% over other filter aids which is an important consideration when comparing costs. EZFlow filter cake density is only 110 to 270 kg/m3 (7 to 17 lb/ft3). The dry density of EZFlow Filter Aid ranges from 100 to 200 kg/m3 (6 to 12 lb/ft3). Experience in a variety of applications in many industries has shown that users of EZFlow Filter Aid can substantially reduce filtration costs without sacrificing performance by converting to EZFlow Filter Aid

Usable With Standard Equipment

EZFlow Filter Aid can be used with both pressure and vacuum filtration equipment by merely replacing present filter aid. Plant or laboratory filtration studies will enable the selection of the optimum filter aid to be specified and the dosage that is required. Of special note is the fact that when EZFlow Filter Aid is used with rotary vacuum filters, filter cakes exhibit less cracking than when other filter aids are used

High flow Rates

Due to their unique physical structure, EZFlow Filter Aid offer high flow rates with optimum clarity. They are especially applicable to highly viscous liquids such as syrup or gelatinous slurries requiring fast flow rates. Productivity, clarity and flow rates can be increased through the use of EZFlow Filter Aid

Easy Cake Release

Because EZFlow Filter Aid remains porous and does compact, EZFlow Filter Aid offers easy cake release at the completion of a filtration cycle. Not only does this facilitate filter cleaning, but it reduces manpower requirements and increases productivity

Use of Spent Filter Cake as Animal Feed

A unique benefit to manufacturers using EZFlow Filter Aid in food processing is that spent filter cake is used as a component in animal feed in many countries throughout the world. This reduces spent filter cake disposal costs. In the U.S., this application has been approved by the Association of American Feed Control Officials (AAFCO)

Packaging

EZFlow Filter Aid is available packed in Bulk bag and 20kg bags. Should this not meet your requirements other sizes are available on request

Full Range of Grades

EZFlow Filter Aid is produced in a wide range of grades to economically meet the flow rate and clarity requirements of almost every industry

Inert-Codex Approved

Perlite Filter Aids are sterile and inert and is widely used for filtering liquids in the beverage, food and pharmaceutical industries. They do not impart taste, odour or colour and are listed in the U.S. Food Chemicals Codex published by the National Academy of Sciences. This publication, which is a source of information on the quality and purity of food grade substances and has been adopted by the many Food and Drug Administrations throughout the world