Basket strainer consist of a removable Screen which can easily be removed from the top.Basket Strainer are used to trap suspended solids and particulate too large to be caught by most filter media. Basket strainer temporarily disrupt a system when cleaning is required.
If disruption to your system is unacceptable, duplex strainers (2 basket strainer arrangement ) allow the system to run without any interruption by redirecting flow to an alternate basket when the other reaches capacity.