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Title: Easily optimize batch pressure filtration

Journal Article · · Chemical Engineering Progress
OSTI ID:605700
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  1. Procter and Gamble (United States)

Several years ago, the author wrote an article describing a design method for batch pressure filtration systems. The method maximizes the production capability of a filtration system by selecting the best operating conditions--filtration time, initial mass flux, operating temperature, and pressure drop. Most often, maximizing production will also optimize total system costs, and both capital/investment and operating expenses. The method requires a large number of calculations, and is time-consuming and cumbersome, even with a personal computer. This article presents a simplified and fast calculation technique. It`s based upon several dimensionless numbers and two graphs that relate the dimensionless numbers to each other.

OSTI ID:
605700
Journal Information:
Chemical Engineering Progress, Vol. 94, Issue 2; Other Information: PBD: Feb 1998
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English