KANKESHWARI DEVI INSTITUTE OF

TECHNOLOGY,JAMNAGAR
a Presentation
on
Leaching
5th sem
sub:- MTO-I
Prepared by
1. 130270105017 Pansheriya Rahul
2.130270105018 Patel Akshay D.
3.130270105019 Patel Akshay N.
 OUTLINES
Introduction to leaching.
Leaching equipments.
Principles of Continuous Countercurrent
Leaching.
INTRODUCTION TO LEACHING
Leaching / solid extraction
methods of removing one
constituent from a solid by
means of a liquid solvent.
Examples:
1. Making coffee from ground
coffee beans
and tea from tea leaves.
(The complex mixture of chemicals that give coffee
and tea their odor, taste, and physiological effects
are leached from the solid by hot water)
2. Extraction of oil from
soybean flakes
3. Extraction of coconut
 LEACHING
EQUIPMENTS

Stationary Solid
Beds

Moving-bed
Leaching

Dispersed-solid
Leaching

DESIRED OUTPUT
 LEACHING
EQUIPMENTS

Stationary Solid
Beds

Moving-bed
Leaching

Dispersed-solid
Leaching

DESIRED YIELD
 Bollman
Extractor
MOVING-
BED
LEACHING

Rotocel
Extractor
 BOLLMAN EXTRACTOR

Contains a bucket elevator in a closed casing.

The buckets are loaded with flaky solids such as
soybeans.
The solids are sprayed with appropriate amount of
half miscella as they travel downward.
Half miscella is the intermediate solvent containing
some extracted oil and some small solid particles.
As solids and solvent flow concurrently down the
right-hand side of the machine, the solvent extracts
more oil from the beans.
Fig. 23.1 (a) Bollman extractor
 Bollman
Extractor
MOVING-
BED
LEACHING

Rotocel
Extractor
 ROTOCEL EXTRACTOR

A horizontal basket is divided into walled

compartments with a floor that is permeable to the
liquid.
The basket rotates slowly about a vertical axis.
Solid are admitted to each compartment at feed
point.
The compartments then pass a number of solvent
sprays, a drainage section and a discharge point.
To give countercurrent extraction, the fresh solvent
is fed only to the last compartment before the
discharge point.
 PRINCIPLE OF CONTINUOUS
COUNTERCURRENT LEACHING

The most important method of leaching is

the continuous countercurrent method suing
stages.
The solid is not moved physically from
stage to stage.
The liquids is being moved from stage to
stage.
 PRINCIPLES OF CONTINUOUS
COUNTERCURRENT LEACHING
Ideal Stages In Countercurrent Leaching

Equilibrium

Operating Line
Constant And Variable Underflow

Number of ideal stages for constant

underflow

Number of ideal stages for variable

underflow
 IDEAL STAGES IN COUNTERCURRENT LEACHING

V phase = the liquid phase (from stage N to stage 1)

L phase = the liquid carried with the solid (from stage 1 to stage N)
Exhausted solids leave Stage N
Concentrated solution overflow from Stage 1
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