Salt Saturators

Manual handling of large bags of salt is no longer accepted in many applications and industries. The salt saturator is a vessel designed to take away manual handling issues making the requirement for brine a much less costlier and safer option. Ian Flockton Developments Ltd offers a standard range of salt saturators starting at 8 tonne to 70 tonne capacity (other volumes available on request).

Brine is necessary for many applications in the Food, chemical and water industries.

Salt Saturators work on a very simple principal whereby a controlled addition of water is mixed with PDV salt (pure dried vacuum salt).

All salt saturators come complete with a fill line which is designed to accept the salt from a bulk delivery tanker. The outlet of a salt saturator is connected to a brine collection system situated inside the vessel. The brine collection system is firstly covered by graded layers of gravel and then the bed of salt. Water is supplied to the salt saturator via a mains water supply which is controlled via a ball float valve system. Now that the two main ingredients have been added, the water mixes with the salt to become Brine. This brine seeks through the graded filter bed and into the brine collection system giving clean saturated brine through the outlet connection.

All standard models come complete with the following:

• Side manways
• Louvered vents
• Fill lines c/w tanker connection
• Lifting lugs
• Float columns
• Brine outlet c/w internal collection system
• Gravel bed(supply only)
• Pressure relief vents

Optional extras include the following:

• Dust arresters
• Filter Socks
• Overflow downpipes
• Outlet valves
• Access steelwork
• Control Panels
• Level alarms – allows alarms to be activated on high and low level
• Pipework
• Installation
• Removal of existing plant

The shells of our salt saturators are translucent and incorporate a UV stabiliser in order that the salt and water levels can be readily seen. The tops and bases are pigmented mid blue as standard, but any alternative colour to BS2800 can be supplied.

Salt Data
At 20 deg C saturated brine contains 26.45% salt by weight Density of saturated brine: 1.2gms/cc

1 Tonne of PDV salt = approximately 3150 litres of saturated brine.