Beltpress Dewatering
02/17/26
“How can we use a beltpress to dewater sludge?”
Sludge needs to be dewatered to increase solid content. One way to do it is to condition sludge with a chemical flocculant to aggregate suspended particles, transport it onto a mechanical moving porous belt where free water drains out, then squeeze it into a top belt to force more water out, and then move it through rollers to pressure even more water out, and finally discharge it as a cake. This Beltpress Dewatering syste is a common approach for wastewater dewatering worldwide.
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