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Saving drinking water through sustainable filtration

Saving drinking water through sustainable cooling water filtration with GEFA backwash filters from the FW series

Find out how our GEFA backwash filters from the FW series offer a sustainable solution for saving drinking water and improving the efficiency of your cooling water system at the same time. Our robust filters protect your system components from contamination and contribute to operational safety.

Saving drinking water through sustainable filtration

Medium: Cooling water and its challenges

Our backwash filters are specially designed for the filtration of cooling water in open cooling circuits. The medium has a temperature of up to 25°C and a maximum pressure of 10 bar.

Task: Effective filtration for optimum performance

The filtration of the cooling water serves several purposes:

  • Protection against green algae and particles in the open cooling tower.
  • Ensuring a separation size of 50µm in the bypass flow to effectively remove impurities.

Solution: GEFA backwash filter series FW

Our backwash filters offer a number of advantages:

  • Robust construction in a compact design that can be easily integrated into your system.
  • Made of high-quality stainless steel SS 304 1.4301 as standard (higher quality materials available on request).
  • Various separation sizes from 30-800µm available (more available on request) to meet your individual requirements.
Product details backwash filter FW

Implementation: Efficient drinking water savings and increased operational safety

Filtering the cooling water using the off-line process offers several advantages:

  • Cleaning of the medium from green algae and particles in the selected separation size to optimize the performance of your system.
  • The drinking water savings of approx. 30-40%, depending on the circulation, result in considerable cost savings.
  • The function of the downstream components is ensured by the effective filtration of the medium, which guarantees operational safety.

Choose our GEFA backwash filters from the FW series and optimize the performance of your cooling water system. Contact us today to find out more about our products and their application.

GEFA Backwash filter FW

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GEFA Backwash filter FW

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