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Prediction of throughput of a filter under constant rate conditions 300000
based on test data for concentration, cake and cloth resistances
250000

Filtration pressure, Pa.

INPUTS: *********** *********** *********** *********** *********** ***********
200000
Constant feed rate: 70 litres per minute ***********
Slurry concentration: 0.05 by mass *********** 150000
Solid density: 2800 kg/m^3 ***********
Liquid density: 1000 kg/m^3 *********** 100000
Liquid viscosity: 0.001 Pa.s *********** 50000
Area of filter cell: 9.4 m^2 ***********
Vessel height or clearance: 0.05 m *********** 0
Pressure exponent in concentration: 0.08 *********** 0 500 1000 1500
Pressure exponent in alpha equation: 0.5 *********** Filtration time
Constant in concentration equation: 0.15 ***********
Constant in alpha equation: 450000000 ***********
Medium resistance: 1.00E+011 1/m *********** CALCULATED VALUES:
Pressure increment multiplier: 1.32 *********** Constant feed rate:
*********** *********** *********** *********** *********** *********** *********** 0.0011667
Total Pressure Pressure Average Average Filtrate Filtration Volume
Filtration drop drop cake alpha rate time filtrate
pressure cloth cake concn.
(Pa) (Pa) (Pa) (v/v) (m/kg) (m^3/s) (s) (m^3)
12411 12411 0 0 0 0 0.000
16383 11556.235 3971.6312 0.27 1.42E+010 0.0010863 378 0.411
21626 11617.567 10069.296 0.29 2.26E+010 0.0010921 570 0.620
28546 11649.879 16928.135 0.30 2.93E+010 0.0010951 720 0.784
37680 11675.645 26030.448 0.31 3.63E+010 0.0010975 876 0.956
49738 11697.672 38062.386 0.32 4.39E+010 0.0010996 1045 1.141
65654 11717.319 53956.53 0.33 5.23E+010 0.0011014 1230 1.346
86664 11735.326 74946.226 0.34 6.16E+010 0.0011031 1436 1.573
114396 11752.131 102660.55 0.35 7.21E+010 0.0011047 1668 1.829
151003 11768.013 139250.43 0.36 8.40E+010 0.0011062 1930 2.118
199323 11783.159 187555.37 0.36 9.74E+010 0.0011076 2226 2.447
263107 11797.696 251323.71 0.37 1.13E+011 0.001109 2564 2.821
347301 11811.716 335503.37 0.38 1.30E+011 0.0011103 2948 3.248
 300000 Other filtration graphs:

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Filtration pressure, Pa.

200000 300000

Total filter pressure, Pa.

150000 250000
200000
100000
150000
50000 100000
0 50000
0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 3000 0
Filtration time, s. 0.000 1.000 2.000 3.000
Filtrate volume, m^3.

CALCULATED VALUES:
Constant feed rate: Slurry concentration: 0.00112
m^3/s 0.0184502 by volume

Filtrate rate, m^3/s.

0.00111
Average Mass of Height Pressure Clearance
dry cake dry of forming between 0.0011
per filtrate cake cake new cake plates 0.00109
(kg/m^3) (kg) (m) (Pa) (m)
#DIV/0! #DIV/0! 0.000 0.00108
55.483174 22.783131 0.003 3971.6312 0.044 0.00107
55.190269 34.204643 0.005 3220.6424 0.040 0 1000 2000 3000
55.037191 43.151513 0.006 3280.4446 0.038
Filtration time, s.
54.915733 52.494434 0.007 4255.6235 0.036
54.812328 62.561048 0.008 5553.0191 0.033
54.720419 73.626623 0.010 7277.407 0.031
54.636457 85.946611 0.011 9560.9091 0.028
54.55833 99.781348 0.012 12580.124 0.025
54.484697 115.40994 0.014 16569.224 0.022
54.414664 133.14006 0.016 21837.917 0.018
54.347614 153.31617 0.018 28795.398 0.014
54.283108 176.32751 0.020 37982.093 0.009
Other filtration graphs:

00 0.020
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0.015

V o l u m e fil t r a t e c o l le c t e d , m ^ 3 . Cake height, m.

00
00 0.010
00
0.005
00
0 0.000
0.000 1.000 2.000 3.000 0 500 10001500200025003000
Filtrate volume, m^3. Filtration time, s.

112
111
011
109 3.000
2.500
108 2.000
1.500
107 1.000
0.500
0 1000 2000 3000 0.000
0 1000 2000 3000
Filtration time, s. Filtration time, s.