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Filtration Examples and Calculations

The document provides three examples of calculations related to filtration. Example 1 calculates the filter area required for a rotary drum filter. Example 2 calculates the filtration time and volume of filtrate obtained from a calcium-carbonate slurry in a press filter. Example 3 calculates the filter surface area required to filter a given volume of filtrate at a constant pressure drop.

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Filtration Examples and Calculations

The document provides three examples of calculations related to filtration. Example 1 calculates the filter area required for a rotary drum filter. Example 2 calculates the filtration time and volume of filtrate obtained from a calcium-carbonate slurry in a press filter. Example 3 calculates the filter surface area required to filter a given volume of filtrate at a constant pressure drop.

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Module 10: Filtration


Lecture 37: Examples

Examples on filtration

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Module 10: Filtration


Lecture 37: Examples
Examples on filtration
Example 1: A rotary drum filter with
slurry of
is

submergence is used to filter a concentrated aqueous

containing

of solids per cubic foot of water. The pressuredrop

If the filter cake contains 50% mixture (wet basis), calculate the filter area required to

filter 10 gal/min of slurry. The filter cycle time is 5 min. The specific cake resistance depends on the
pressuredrop as:

Viscosity

of

the

filtrate

Density

of

.Neglect filter medium resistance.


Answer:
Recall the expression for the production rate of cake.

Here,

production rate of cake

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Lecture 37: Examples

where

concentration of slurry

Submergencefraction
Speed of the drum
Cycle-time

(density of filtrate)

Slurrydensity

On substitution,

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Module 10: Filtration


Lecture 37: Examples
Example
2:

A calciumcarbonate slurry is to be filtered in a press having a total area of


operated at a constant pressure drop of 2 atm. The frames are
that the filter medium resistance is

and

thick. Assume

per ft. Calculate filtration time and the

volume of filtrate obtained in one cycle. Cake density

. The specific cake

resistance,

Concentration of slurry
Answer:

Thickness of the cake


total mass of the cake formed in one cycle
(cake density)

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Lecture 37: Examples
Note:

Volume of the filter

in one cycle

Re-call the expression for constant pressuredrop filtration

where

Therefore,

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Module 10: Filtration


Lecture 37: Examples
Example 3:
The following relation between specific resistance and pressure drop has been determined:

This relation is valid over a pressure range of


yielding

. A slurry of this material

of cake solid per cubic filtrate is to be filtered at a constant pressure drop of 70


. The resistance of filter

square feet of the filter surface area required to give

per ft. Determine


gal of filtrate in a 1-hr-filtration?

Answer:

Re-call the expression:

Substitute,

Or

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