Glossary
Listview for the terms
- Candle filter
- Type of filter for liquid filtration
- Carcinogen
- Carcinogenic or cancer-causing
- Carpet beating effect
- Repulse of the filter medium with deposited filter cake from the supporting cage to the filter media diameter
- Cartridge filter element
- Folded (pleated) filter media
- Cartridge filter plant
- Filter plant with cartridge filter elements
- Central dedusting
- Dedusting of several dust sources
- Central exhaust system
- Connection of several exhaust points via a pipe network and exhaust by a single filter plant.
- Centrifugal separator
- Plant for separating heavy elements out of a gas.
- Ceramic filter
- Filter elements made of ceramic materials
- CFR
- Code of Federal Regulations
- Change collar
- Part of the sack changing system
- Changing sack
- Plastic sack for changing filter sack or dust discharge sack.
- Channel filter
- Filter unit without cleaning integreated in a channel
- CIP
- Cleaning in place
- Circulating-air cleaning
- cf. air return
- Clamping device
- Fastening system for filter media
- Clean gas
- dedusted gas (air)
- Clean gas chamber
- cf. filter head
- Clean gas concentration
- cf. residual dust concentration
- Clean gas flap
- Shutoff valve
- Clean gas side
- Components behind the filter medium of first filter stage
- Cleaning
- Removal of the periodically depositing filter cake
- Cleaning control
- Control of filter cleaning
- Cleaning cycle
- Regular process of cleaning
- Cleaning pressure
- Level of compressed air pressure
- Clogging
- Irreversibel clogging of filter media
- Cloth filter
- Term used in liquid filtration
- CLP directive
- Classification, Labelling and Packaging
- CMR substances
- Substances meets the criteria for classification as carcinogenic, mutagenic, and toxic for reproduction
- CMT substances
- carcinogenic, mutagenic or teratogenic substances
- Coanda nozzle
- Injector system
- Coarse dust
- Particle size >10 µm
- Coarse dust filter
- Filter of filter classes G1 to G4
- Cohesion / cohesive
- Binding power between the atoms and molecules within a substance, acting on both these substances
- Commissioning
- First-time intended use of a mashine / plant
- Compact filter
- Type of filter
- Compressed air consumption
- Total consumption of compressed air for filter plants with continuous operating.
- Containment
- Enclosure
- Containment test dusts
- Reference dusts for testing a filter plant used for containment processes.
- Contamination
- Contamination of products, mashines, premises or people
- Continuous Liner System
- Endless liner system at the dust discharge
- Continuous operation
- Kind of operation of the filtration process
- Corrosion
- Wear by chemical reaction
- Cross-contamination
- The directly or indirectly unwanted transmission of contaminations on an item.
- Cross-contamination
- Spreading of active substances
- Cyclone
- cf. Centrifugal separator
- Cyclone filter
- Round filter plant