For various reasons, little use is made at present of pulp separation
from the raw juice, although it offers several technological advantage
s. Multistage filtration is presented as a suitable procedure for pulp
separation from the raw juice. The paper discusses the results of lar
ge-scale tests of a functional model in respect of filter performance,
solid concentration, solid composition, and degree of separation, as
well as the implications for the management of tower diffusers.