Glass microfiber filters offered in this product range are produced from 100% borosilicate glass microfiber without the use of binders or strengthening agents. These filters offer many advantages in a wide range of analytical applications.
The fibers used to manufacture these depth filters are smooth and uniform. This permits their characteristically high flow rates while allowing retention of exceptionally small particles and high load capacity. These characteristics are particularly important in applications involving high concentrations of particulate or gelatinous substances. In choosing the appropriate filter for a specific application, careful consideration should be given to the physical form and concentration of the material to be captured by the filter.
Fine porosity, medium flow rate, with a 0.7µm size particle retention. Frequently used with Grade D to filter diluted aqueous solutions containing strong oxidizing, acidic, or alkaline components prior to laser spectroscopy. May also be used for TCLP analysis and collecting extremely fine precipitated proteins, including immunoglobulins. Binderless borosilicate glass microfiber.
Depth filtration categorizes filter media that traps particulate within the random matrix of fibers found within the thickness of the media. The efficiency rating of the filter is characteristic of the complex void space structure that develops as the fibers overlap. The fibrous material within the filter is commonly glass microfiber, cellulose or polypropylene. In depth filters using glass microfiber, the purity of the filter is dictated by the presence of, if any, binder material that acts as a strengthening agent and aids in holding the fibers together. All of the media described on this page are 100% borosilicate glass and free of binders.
Because of the characteristically high flow rates of depth filters, they are generally used in applications such as single and multi process removal of sediment and coarse particulate. Glass microfiber filters without binders are an ideal medium to entrap sediment for further analysis and counting due to the inert matrix. Also, depth filtration media are commonly used for pre-filtration prior to surface filtration with substrates such as membranes.
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Technical Specifications for Glass Microfiber
- Grade Nomenclature: F
- Particle Retention: 0.70μm
- Material Type: Binderless Borosilicate Glass Microfiber
- Thickness: 0.40mm
- Filtration Speed: 80 sec.
- Basis Weight: 80g/m2
- Fastest flow rate
- High load capacity
- Retention of particles to sub-micron size
- Temperature range up to 500°C
- Use in liquid and gaseous filtration
- Inert fiber composition
- Free of binders or additives
Glass Microfiber Manufacturing
Tremont offers an impressive list of manufacturing capabilities and expertise in glass microfiber and cellulose filter media. We leverage a longstanding and contractual relationship between several mills to put 6 papermaking machines and formers into production. With this enormous capacity at our disposal, we are able to take a project from lab bench through pilot scale and ultimately full production with ease.
Our partner mill output exceeds 120 grade variants manufactured in the USA and internationally. With chemists and scientists of several disciplines, experienced papermakers, the finest controls-on-machine plus a rigorous QA protocol, it is not often a project challenge is beyond our capability.
Paper Making Capabilities:
- Paper making machines in flat bed, slant bed, high speed fourdrinier and rotary forming styles.
- Furnish capabilities of: glass blends, cotton cellulose, soft wood, cotton/wood pulp, synthetics
- Various levels of water filtration, including R.O. for superior purity in analytical and diagnostic applications.
- Web widths from 24 inch (60.9cm) to 72 inch (182.8cm).
- Basis weights from 8lb to 138lb @ 3000ft2 (13g/m2 to 225g/m2).
- Binder free, Binder burn off, Acrylic, PVA and hybrid chemistries.
- Gantry mounted traversing densitometry as well as most other high-resolution verification sensors.
- Static pressure, mixed and multi-stage head boxes.
- Binderless, mixed box, spray on and pulper-saturation style binder introduction.
- Single and multi-stage vacuum boxes.
- Several screen variants for very high consistency formation.
- Wet stream or dry deckle trim.
- Unique end of machine board cut-off capability for very high density, high basis weight celluloses.
- FDA grade manufacturing capabilities.
- Lot selection, furnish verification and supply chain assurance.
- Cotton batch traceability "to farm" with unique commodity procurement services.
Converting Capabilities:
After the papermaking process is complete, our experienced converting staff brings your project from large master rolls down to narrow reels or sheets with ease. Sheeting, die cutting and other unique converting operations are performed at our Hawthorne, NJ facility under our strict ISO production environments.
- High speed rotary knife sheeting (+/- 0.03125 inch).
- Low speed, multi roll CNC sheeting (+/- 0.03125 inch).
- Low tensile strength sheeting capabilities handling the most challenging binderless glass grades to 60 inch web width.
- Vacuum stack counting with laser verification and tab insertion minimum 5 sheet count.
- Narrow roll slitting down to 1/4inch web width even in low tensile glass microfiber.
- Shaftless rewind with core ID's down to 1/2inch ID.
- Die cutting in manual, semi-automatic and automatic repeating modes. Slow speed, platen, clicker, c-frame, fixed tool and bottom-up presses.
- Tonnage from 1 to 140ton in hydraulic and mechanical types.
- Narrow web <5.125 inch (13cm) rotary die cutting with unique "zero-tensile" capabilities, inline micro perforation and rotary parts cut-off. Vacuum in-field parts removal.
- Programmable guillotine cutters from 30 to 44 inch (76.2cm – 111.76cm) width.
- Spreading table station for woven fabrics fabrication.
- Hole drilling, slotting and complex notching.
- Heat treating processes ranging from low temp, long exposure to flash and 1100°C muffle furnace treatments.
- Laminating via heat set, single and dual surface in web widths of 60 inch.
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