PRESSURE LEAF CLARIFICATION COSTING.

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Pressure leaf filter sizing and costing - effect of cycle time 60000
capital and precoat costs considered
50000
INPUTS: ******** ******** ******** ******** ********
Volume filtered: 3 m^3 ******** 40000

Costs, pounds.
in unit time: 3600 seconds ********
30000
Viscosity: 0.01 Pa.s ********
Cake specific resistance: 2E+11 m/kg ********
20000
Cloth resistance: 1E+11 m^-1 ********
Slurry concentration: 50 kg/m^3 ******** 10000
Max. pressure differential: 4.5 Bar ********
Downtime as % of cycle: 30 % ******** 0
Precoat depth: 2 mm ******** 0.0 2.0 4.0 6.0
Day length: 14 hours ******** Cycle
Days per year: 350 days ********
Precoat bulk density: 350 kg/m^3 ******** Filtrate rate:
Cost of filter aid: 350 £/tonne ******** mu.Rm.q:
******** ******** ******** ******** ******** mu.alpha.w.q:
Cycle ******** Form Volume Filter Filter Number Precoat
time ******** time filtrate area cost precoats cost
(hours) ******** (hours) (m^3) (m^2) (£) (annual) (£)
1.0 ******** 0.7 2.1 20.7 15267 4900 24812
2.0 ******** 1.4 4.2 28.8 20600 2450 17305
3.0 ******** 2.1 6.3 35.1 24588 1400 12038
4.0 ******** 2.8 8.4 40.4 27895 1050 10387
5.0 ******** 3.5 10.5 45.0 30773 700 7723
6.0 ******** 4.2 12.6 49.2 33349 700 8445
7.0 ******** 4.9 14.7 53.1 35699 700 9108
8.0 ******** 5.6 16.8 56.7 37870 350 4863
9.0 ******** 6.3 18.9 60.1 39898 350 5153
10.0 ******** 7.0 21.0 63.3 41805 350 5427
11.0 ******** 7.7 23.1 66.3 43610 350 5688
12.0 ******** 8.4 25.2 69.2 45326 350 5938
13.0 ******** 9.1 27.3 72.0 46966 350 6177
14.0 ******** 9.8 29.4 74.7 48538 350 6407
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Filter
Precoat
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Total
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0.0 2.0 4.0 6.0 8.0 10.0 12.0 14.0 16.0
Cycle time, hours.

0.0008333 m^3/s
833333.33
83333333
Annual Oil Cost per
cost cleared volume
(£) (m^3) (£/m^3)
40079 10290 3.89
37905 10290 3.68
36625 8820 4.15
38282 8820 4.34
38496 7350 5.24
41793 8820 4.74
44807 10290 4.35
42733 5880 7.27
45051 6615 6.81
47232 7350 6.43
49298 8085 6.10
51264 8820 5.81
53143 9555 5.56
54945 10290 5.34