Our fines recovery systems are custom designed using premium quality components including GIW slurry pumps, CFS dewatering screens, and Krebs gMAX cyclones.
Most competitive systems use many small tangential feed- type cyclones to make their separation. The Krebs gMax cyclone has many advantages over these models including:
Fines Recovery System
- Involute inlet design results in very high capacity and sharp separation. A 10” gMAX makes a finer separation than a 4” tangential feed cyclone and typically, three of the 10” gMax cyclones will have the same capacity as a bank of twenty 4” cyclones.
- Lower operating pressures resulting in significantly reduced horsepower requirements and wear to the cyclones and feed manifold.
- Replaceable “drop-in” liners versus complete cyclone replacement eliminates the need for spare cyclones.
- Large apex opening virtually eliminates cyclone plugging. Because the 4” cones have a very small apex opening, they tend to plug. When a cyclone is plugged, fines that should report to product go straight to the pond.
- Much simpler feed manifold design and maintenance due to the fewer number of larger cyclones required.
Five sizes of field replaceable vortex finders available for each model for maximum flexibility.