Haixing screen Co., Ltd .
The continuous slot wedge wire products are used in a wide variety of industries, such as, construction of water wells, drainage wells, breweries-malting industries, water and waste water, treatment, as intakes for dams, rivers and lakes, different mining process (clarification, dewatering, and selection process), food industry and in many other processes and industries. Even though it wedge wire products have multiple uses, this product was originally developed in the United States in order to solve the problems associated with water wells built in fine and very fine uniform sands formations.
Depending on the type of wire used and the slot opening, the open area of a wedge wire screen can vary between 10% and 70% of the total area (see graph). The average opening area of a water well screen varies from 35% to 45% compared with 5% to 15% on average of a other screens (e.g. perforated or bridge screen). In the case of support grids, the filtering area can be up to a 70% of total area, depending on the material used and the slot.