Dewatering Tubes

The use of specialty textiles fabricated into large diameter tubes has found increasing acceptance throughout the world as an effective alternative, low cost method of dewatering a range of sludge materials, hazardous contaminated soils or dredged waste materials.

The ProTube works effectively by:

CONTAINING the fine grained material to be dewatered within the unique weave of the protube textile.

DEWATERING of the excess water through the specially constructed high flow pores of the ProTube textile. There is significant volume reduction of the material in this stage which allows for the repeated filling of the ProTube product in many cases.

CONSOLIDATION of the fines occurring after the final cycle of filling and dewatering. The fine grained soils contained within the ProTube continue to consolidate through desiccation with residual water vapour continuing to escape through the unique pore structure of the ProTube. This results in the most effective state for final disposal of the waste.