While physical laws may be
bent, they can never be broken. Neither can truly efficient removal of gas contaminants be
achieved without methods which actually take these laws into account. The tools to
accomplish this task have been fine-tuned and proven by King Tool Company over the past
fifty years. Yet persistent in today's filter separation marketplace are attempts to
defeat nature's laws by trend-led designers who have a penchant for miniaturization,
without considering the inevitable trade-off in performance.
King Tool Company's uncompromising approach toward the design of its
filter separators, and indeed toward all of its products, has withstood the test of time.
Still, as in-house improvements are developed which enhance operation or lessen
maintenance for the service personnel, they are expeditiously implemented.
King Tool Company began building its filter separator line with the idea
of optimization by utilizing its own ingenious, concentric circle filter element
arrangement. It was then, and remains even today, unique in its field. The advantage of
this arrangement is that it accommodates the largest number of filter elements for any
given vessel size. Added to this was the King Tool Company Vane Mist Extractor, the most
effective impingement-type liquid particle removal device ever used in gas separation
systems. The result was the most efficient Non-Self-Cleaning Filter Separator in the
industry. This has not changed.
One of the most important factors in the
overall efficiency of a filter separator, and one which is largely ignored, is the length
of the filter elements. Their length affects such things as filter life, pressure
drop, and coalescing effectiveness. So, instead of the 36-inch long filter elements
used in competitive units, King Tool Company employs 72-inch long elements as standard
throughout its line of Horizontal Non-Self-Cleaning Filter Separators. Additionally,
72-inch filters have a decided advantage in coalescing area and volume. On the other
hand, the shorter 36-inch filter elements lead to more frequent change-outs and higher
operating costs.
The King Tool Vane Mist Extractor, well-known
for its performance and reliability, is specified in all King Tool Non-Self-Cleaning
Filter Separators. The Vane Mist Extractor, unlike most competitive units, is not
mounted across the vessel, but longitudinally. This results in more impingement area
and, thereby, more total liquid particle removal. The vane is also less prone to
plugging and metal fatigue than a mesh pad device and doesn't suffer from limited turndown as do centrifugal devices. |
