The simplest batch filtration equipment is merely a scaled up version of a Buchner filter – a square or round tray , floored with ridged porous tiles over which a filter cloth is stretched . The sluury is loaded onto the tray and suction applied to the underside to force the filtrate through the cloth. Unloading of the cake is manual.

Descriptions of Rotary vacuum and plate filters are to found at:

http://www.rensselaer.edu/dept/chem-eng/Biotech-Environ/FILTRATION/rotvac.htm

http://www.komline.com/Products_Services/Filtration/RotaryVac.html#anchor9776

http://www.solidliquid-separation.com/
 
 

See also Section 7.4 Coulson & Richardson’s Chemical Engineering, Volume2 (Fourth Ed).