The Floatex Attrition Scrubber is available in 2 standards

• Heavy Duty - a high specification design for demanding applications.
• Economy - a lower cost, simpler design for sand applications.

Both units have the same paddle profile and are directly coupled from the motor through to the paddles to enable high start-up torques.

TYPICAL APPLICATIONS

• Surface cleaning of particles.
• Sand particle polishing.
• High-intensity conditioning.
• Liberation of valuable minerals from clay matrix.
• Washing plastic chips for recycling.
• Reaction vessels
• Soil washing - liberation of contaminants.
• Delamination or blunging of clays.

Attrition Scrubbing is a process where a mineral is scrubbed by the action of one high speed slurry flow impacting on another. The advantage of this type of attrition is that as it is being provided by two slurry flows there is little wear on the machine itself.

Two opposed, shaft mounted, turbine type impellers generate opposing slurry flows that provide high particle on particle impact. The ideal solids concentration is 70 to 80%, dependant on the mineral, this giving the maximum particle on particle contact.

A scrubber consists of a series of inter connected cells. A differential pitch between the impellers causes the slurry to be pumped from one cell to another through the scrubber.