Steam Filters
The patented segmented construction of MICROPURE filters offers significant advantages over conventional cartridge filters (shown above). Steam flows into the openings on the outside of each segment disc and passes through the filter and into an adjacent disc. Filtered steam exits through the opening at the center of the cartridge, free from contaminants that can affect the quality of your product. |
Why you need Filtered Steam
To protect costly equipment, maintain processing efficiency and reduce downtime, it’s important to remove scale and debris that are common in most systems. Filtered steam will protect valves, process equipment and process filters from damage.
To protect product purity you need culinary grade steam with particles no larger than 5 microns. When filtered through a MICROPURE Steam Filter, steam used to agitate, mix or cook food will be free from contaminates which can spoil the appearance, smell or taste of your product.
How MicroPure Steam Filters do it better
System Security
- Self Sealing woven stainless steel media with absolute micron retention to fit your need. We have media from 1 micron to 100 micron.
- Each Filter Membrane works independently allowing for maximum filtering capability.
- A stainless steel tension rod and parts that provides continued support upstream and downstream of the filter membrane.
- The design of Micropure Segmented Filters has been subjected to extensive testing in
- Europe and the United States.
Application Versatility
- The required segmented element length and diameter are determined by your application giving each application an individualized fit.
- Unlike conventional cartridge filters, Micropure's Segmented filters can handle bi-directional flow.
- Filters allow higher flow rates than conventional filters while maintaining submicron bacterial efficiency.**
- High Temperature Tolerance
Unlimited Reusability 
- Stainless Steel segmented discs, which will out last the conventional cartridge style filters.
- Since each membrane acts independently, Increasing flow rate or pressure can be achieved by simply adding more membranes/segmented element discs.
Economical
- You only Replace the media discs. The element stays in the filter for its entire life.
- Cost of Ownership is significantly less than competitors.
Convenience
- MicroPure filters can be steam sterilized "in-situ" or in place up to 150 times with no loss of filtering effectiveness as validated by an internationally recognized food laboratory.
- Micropure filters can Also be sterilized using autoclave, hydrogen peroxide, steam or a variety of sanitizing agents.*
- Membrane Replacement is Simple and Easy.
- Simple, on-site visual inspection of individual filter membrane
- Membranes are easily removable for laboratory analysis or culture.
Woven stainless steel filter media – supported by stainless steel segmented discs in a stainless steel housing – maintains its integrity under conditions that cause conventional sintered media to disintegrate.
Unlike other filter media that have a shorter life and must be disposed or removed frequently for acid cleaning, MICROPURE filter media can be easily and repeatedly cleaned by backflushing for a full year under normal use. When replacement finally becomes necessary, the cost is considerably less than our competitors. The reason: only the media is replaced, not the entire element.
The picture to the right shows the difference between the two types of media. Our media traps all particles upstream where the competitor’s filter traps the particles. Our media has a one year warranty on strength and integrity and the competitor’s cartridge can disintegrate after repeated heat treatments.
MICROPURE has the filter size you need from 10 lbs/hr to 10,000 lbs/hr (at 250°F, 32 um grade). If requirements change, you can often keep the same housing. By changing the media porosity or the number of segmented filter discs you can meet your new requirements. With MICROPURE, steam filtration is simple, effective and cost efficient.
No other filter offers this combination of features:
- Segmented design allows exchange of media to meet changing requirements, inspect elements, or to replace old elements
- Available in multiple sizes from 3 to 50 microns and 4 diameter sizes for exceptional versatility
- Meets all culinary steam standards
- Housing and Segmented Discs warranted for 5 years
- Bi-directional flow capability
- Built of high grade stainless steel- to tolerate extreme pressure and temperature variations for unlimited reusability
- Easy to design into virtually any process system
Flow rate information
Based on saturated steam at 29.8 psia (250°F)/2.1 bar (121°C). For other pressures, please consult the table below.
| Temperature | Pressure | Multiplier | ||
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212°F |
100°C |
14.7 |
1.0 |
1.4 |
284°F |
140°C |
52.4 |
3.6 |
.7 |
320°F |
160°C |
89.6 |
6.2 |
.5 |
356°F |
180°C |
145.4 |
10.0 |
.3 |
Technical Data
| Maximum Operating Pressure | 232 psig |
16 bar |
Maximum Differential Pressure |
75 psid |
5.2 bar |
Maximum Reverse Pressure |
75 psid |
5.2 bar |
Pore Sizes |
3,5,10,25,32,50 micron. |
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Material of Construction: |
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Housing |
304 SS |
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Segmented Filter Discs |
304 SS |
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Filter Media |
304 SS |
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O-Rings |
EPDM |
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Flow Rate vs. Differential Pressure Charts
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Warranty
Micropure Filtration, Inc. provides a five year limited warranty on all parts except O-rings and media. A one year warranty on filter media is based on periodic backflushing to prevent overloading. These warranties extend only to components purchased from Micropure or a certified Micropure Filtration Vendor.
Culinary Steam Standards
3A Accepted Practices for a Method of Producing Steam of Culinary Quality requires particulate filtration to 5 microns and larger (Reference No. 609-00;D.2).