TITLE OF PROPOSAL

AUTOMATE THE LIQUID FILTER PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS AND DEVELOPMENT OF EXPERIMENTAL SETUP

 Name of Applicant-Kamlesh B Shah

 PG-Specialization in Mechanical Engineering
(PRODUCTION)
 Name of PG college passed out and marks
secured-MS University (FIRST CLASS)
 Current designation-Director of KBS FILTERS
PVT. LTD.
 Introduction
IMPORATNCE OF FILTERATION
 
 AUTOMATION BY HYDROLIC SYSTEM
 AUTOMOBILE SECTOR I.E. FUEL
FILTRATION, LUBE OIL FILTRATION.
 LUBRICATION OF ROTORY ENGINES
 BEARING INDUSTRIES
 CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES
 VARIOUS OTHER INDUSTRIES WHERE
AUTOMATION IS USED
 RATIONALE OF PROPOSAL
FILTER PERFORMANCE CAN BE EVALUATED AND EXPRESSED
IN TERMS OF CERTAIN PARAMETERS NAMELY
 
 CUT OFF
 PERMEABILITY
 EFFICIENCY
 PRESSURE DROP
 
HENCE IT IS DESIRABLE TO ESTABLISH CLEAR FILTER
EVALUATION SET UP SO THAT THE FILTER QUALITY AND
ITS MFG. PROCESS ARE QUALIFIED.
 
 NOVELTY OF PROPOSAL
WHILE REFERRING VARIOUS I.S. STANDARDS AND ISO STANDARDS I FOUND
ISO-16889 IS AN APPROPRIATE STANDARD

 EXPERIMENTAL SET UP COMPLYING WITH THIS STANDARD WILL LEAD

TO AUTOMATE THE LIQUID FILTER TEST.

 HERE ON LINE PARTICLE COUNTING SYSTEM WILL BE INTEGRATED WITH

THE TEST RIG TO QUANTIFY THE SIZE AND NUMBER OF PARTICLES
UPSTREAM AND DOWNSTREAM OF THE FILTER.

 THIS WILL REMOVE HUMAN ERROR OF MEASURING FILTER EFFICIENCY

WITH PRESENT GRAVI METRIC METHOD POPULARLY USED.
 AIM AND OBJECTIVES

FILTERS OF VARIOUS MICRON RATINGS ARE TESTED WITH VARIOUS CONTROLL

VARIABLE NAMELY
 FLOW RATE

 FLOW PRESSURE

 CONTAMINATION LEVEL (QUANTITY & SIZE OF PARTICLES)

 TEMPERATURE

 VISCOCITY OF FLUID

 HERE THE VALUES OF ABOVE CONTROL VARIABLE WILL BE SELECTED

DEPENDING UPON ITS INDUSTRIAL APPLICATION.

SUCH TYPE OF SET UP WILL BE MUCH MORE HELPFUL FOR SELECTION OF FILTERS IE

 METALIC WITH WIRE MESH

 PAPER MEDIA
 WOUNDCARTRIDGES
 OTHER MEDIA NAMELY GLASS FIBRE, NON WOVEN ETC
 Probable Research Outcomes
 WITH THE HELP OF ABOVE SET UP ONE CAN EASILY DECIDE WHICH FILTER I.E.
FILTER WITH
 
 WIRE MESH
 PAPER MEDIA
 NON WOVEN MEDIA
 GLASS FIBRE
ANY OTHER MEDIA IS ECONOMICALLY OK WITH HIS QUALITY REQUIREMENT.
 

  SUCH SET UP WILL HELP OTHER MSME INDUSTRIES ALSO WHO ARE IN THE
FILTERATION FIELD.

AS ON DATE FOR ON LINE TESTING WHERE HUMAN ERROR IS ZERO ONLY

MULTINATIONAL FILTER MANUFACTURER ARE POSSESSING THIS SET UP AND
FOR TESTING OUT SIDE FILTERS. THEY ARE CHARGING VERY HIGH FEES
 
 References
1) FILTERS AND FILTRATION HAND BOOK - BY T.CHRISTOPHER
DICKENSON

2) THE SCIENTIFIC BASIS OF FILTRATION - BY K J IVES

3) HAND BOOK OF FILTER MEDIA - BY DEREK B PURCHAS

4) SOLID LIQUID FILTERATION AND SEPERATION TECHNOLOGY- BY

A RUSHTON AND A.S. WARD
 
5) INDUSTRIAL FILTRATION OF LIQUID – BY DEREK B PURCHAS

6) FILTRATION - BY GEORGE D DICKEY

7) LIQUID FILTRATION – BY DAVID S AZBEL