CONSTANT PRESSURE FILTRATION.

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Constant pressure filtration readings from vacuum or pressure test
cake and cloth resistance follows from
equation (2.23)

INPUTS ********* ********* ********* ********* *********

Filter area: 2.72 m^2
Liquid viscosity: 0.001 Pa s
Liquid density: 1000 kg/m^3
Solids in slurry weight fraction: 0.1 -
Mass of wet cake sample: 1280 g
Mass of dry cake sample: 635 g
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Filtration Filtration Filtrate ********* Time Pressure Fitted
time pressure Volume ********* over forming t/V
********* volume cake
(s) (bar) (m^3) ********* (s/m^3) (Pa) (s/m^3)
0 3 0 *******
92 3 0.024 ********* 3833.3333 50295 3859.7852306
160 3 0.039 ********* 4102.5641 73977 4080.5014864
232 3 0.054 ********* 4296.2963 93557 4301.2177421
327 3 0.071 ********* 4605.6338 112013 4551.362832
418 3 0.088 ********* 4750 127440 4801.5079218
472 3 0.096 ********* 4916.6667 133856 4919.2232582
538 3 0.106 ********* 5075.4717 141235 5066.3674287
Average: 3 bar

6000 0.12
Filtrate time over volume,

5000 0.1
Filtrate volume, m^3.

4000 0.08
s/m^3.

3000 0.06
2000 0.04
1000 0.02
0 0
0 0.02 0.04 0.06 0.08 0.1 0.12 0 100 200 300 400 500
Filtrate volume, m^3. Time, s.
 CALCULATED VALUES: ********* ********* *********
Moisture ratio of cake: 2.015748
Dry cake per filtrate volume (equn 2.18): 125.24655 kg/m^3
Filtration pressure: 300000 Pa
Cake specific resistance: 5.215E+11 m/kg
Cloth resistance: 2.861E+12 m^-1
Cake forming pressure: 134176.96 Pa
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Regression Output:
Constant 3506.6392
X Coefficient(s) 14714.417
R Squared 0.9943521

100 200 300 400 500 600

Time, s.