This category and its subcategories are concerned with the recognition, handling, and processing of materials and components that have more than one constituent part. The systems, machinery, and equipment, as well as the various ancillary products they employ, are designed to analyze, categorize, sort, and separately store or dispose of the different parts. The end results can vary, but they will invariably comprise at least a couple of distinct elements.
Note: Sites related to joining or merging materials and their parts are more properly indexed in the Process_Equipment/Mixers_and_Dispensers category.
Additional note: On the whole, sites concerned with the removal of contaminants in air, gases, and water belong in the Process_Equipment/Filtering category. (This differentiation is based on a recognition that a single cleansed/purified element/condition is the end result of filtering, whereas a separating process [as already implied above] produces at least two parts of the original whole.) At the same time, however, there's something of a fine distinction when it comes to oil/water, liquid/solid, and wastewater treatment systems, which invariably result in two reusable elements and are therefore more properly allocated to this Separators category.
This category contains sites related to the manufacture, supply, and servicing of industrial centrifuges, which are rotating machines designed to separate multi-phase fluids into component elements.
This category contains sites that are concerned with a particular application of chemical engineering whereby waste and impurities are disposed of during what is called "mass transfer" of gases and liquids. The technology is also used both to extract and separate elements from composite materials and to reduce liquids to a solid state. On the whole, applications are confined to the chemical, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, and food processing industries.
This category contains sites related to the manufacture and supply of filters, screens, sheet materials, housings, stand alone units, and accessory products used in a wide variety of filtering and separating systems and devices.
Note: The emphasis in this category is on the filters and screens rather than the equipment and systems that make use of them. Sites of that sort are indexed in either the Process_Equipment/Filtering category or the main Process_Equipment/Separator category or one of its subcategories.
This category contains sites concerned with the size alteration, constituent separation, and sifting, measurement, and classification of various products handled by the processing industries.