Wet drum separators are mainly used for the recovery of magnetic/ferrosilicon in dense media plants and iron ores. Wet drum separators work on a similar principle to our other existing drum separators. A stationary magnet system with several radial poles attracts the magnetic material to the drum face. The rotating cover then carries the magnetics from one pole to another, at the same time rotating the magnetic particle to allow trapped non magnetics to free fall.

This should then produce a clean magnetic product completing the magnetic separation process. Wet drum separators have three basic designs that work with 3 different types of application, they are concurrent, counter flow and counter current. The purpose of this is to ensure that we can meet recovery figures of 99.9% when dealing with different solid to liquid ratios.