FACULTY OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

SOLID-LIQUID EXTRACTION PRACTCAL REPORT

GROUP B2 MEMBERS STUDENT NUMBERS

HLAMBISA S 21908369
HOSHE N 21920507
DUBAZANE SM 21944410
NDWANDWE NN 21942286
SIBISI S 21909049
SUMMERY
INTRODUCTION
Extraction is a more efficient, selective and cost-effective alternative to competing separating
methods and this method application leads to an obtainment of oil from oil seeds or leaching
metal salts from ores. Solid-liquid extraction also called “leaching” experimentation is the
process of the separation of solid mixtures using solid-liquid extraction and this process deals
with the removal of soluble substances from solids using a solvent known as distilled water.

In this practical the solute getting extracted from the potassium hydrogen carbonate solid
mixture is called aluminium oxide and this extraction was done using distilled water to
sprinkle the mixture for extraction to happen.

The reason this practical is important is to allow the students to have a full understanding of
the operation taking place on the solid liquid extraction equipment’s and have a full
understanding of the how solids are separated from the mixture using leaching and knowing
this process will not just help the student to complete the report and pass the module but this
will also install a full understanding of the process in such a way that if the student finds a job
on the chemical industries that deals with extraction of solids from liquid not to face any
challenges.
THEORY
 EXPERIMENTAL METHOD AND APPARATUS
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Figure 1 the process flow equipment for the solid-liquid extraction process

1. Material feeder for extraction material 10. Operating valve

2 heating material 11 solvent tank.

3. revolving extractor 12. USB interface

4. water supplier 13 potassium hydrogen carbonate solid

5. water transfer pipe

6. Pump 1
 7. rotary extraction cell

8. process pump3

9.concetratin panel

The most important features of this process equipment are the main pumps namely pump 1,
pump 2 and pump3 and these pumps are responsible for heat generating, other important
features for this equipment are, rotary extractor cell and material feeder

The rotary extractor cell is responsible for rotation of the carbonate solid which are used in
carbon solid mixture since the stage that we focus on in this practical is continuous 3-stage
mode. The speed(valves) is also an important feature operator because this one deals with the
adjustment of different numbers of speed flow.

The procedure that was followed in this experiment was:

 Extraction of material is initially sprayed with unloaded solvent

 The cell is filled with extraction material
 The extraction material is sprayed throughout the duration of the experiment and not
replaced
 As the rotary extractor kept on rotating after 1 revolution the extraction residue drop
happens.

The flow that the extraction material and solvent flow at is known as counter flow and its
moves to different stages.in the 3rd stage,

The operating conditions for this experiment to be perfectly done was that the time should
range from 1 min up to 5 min and the flowrates must start from 20 l/hr up to 100 l/hr, before
the experiment was done, settling such as material feeder speed ,extractor speed, mode,
solvent flowrate were determined.

The conductivity of diferrent times from 1min-5min and changing the flow rates from 40l/hr
up to 100l/hr were used as a reference to measure the concentration values and the main value
that we were focusing on was a C2 value because it was the only one that kept on changing
while C3 and C1 remained constant was measured.