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Universidad de Oriente
Cuba
The present paper is refered to the automation of parameter calculation during evaluation and
design of settlers by Talmage and Fitch method. It has not been automated until now. Talmage and
Fitch method is a graphic method and it requires a lot of time to be elaborated, as well as it also
requires experienced people for drawing graphics if it is necessary exactitude in calculations. This
work ended with computer software that only needs physical data of slurry and experimental test
data and supplies you the graphic and results of such method, according to a Cuban Standard. All
calculations and operations carried out by the software are based on novel algorithms, that allow
to simulate the work executed by an experienced technician, but every step of the method is
warranted with mathematical exactitude.
Key words: talmage-Fitch, Method, sedimentation, automatic solution.
Introduccin
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El presente artculo tiene como objetivo informar la existencia del soft SEDTF y de sus bondades para el clculo de los parmetros de sedimentacin utilizando el mtodo de Talmage y Fitch.
Fundamentacin
Tabla 1
Comparacin de SEDTF con los clculos manuales
Anlisis econmico
Indicadores
Gastos por hora
Manual
10,4 UM
Horas de trabajo
300
Tiempo de respuesta
SEDTF
0,07 UM
25
0,17
Dif.
10,33 UM
275
1,830
Dife. Rel
154,97
11,00
10,76
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12
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Conclusiones y recomendaciones
Con este soft se ha logrado automatizar uno de
los clculos, que hasta nuestros das se realizaban
manualmente pese a los grandes avances en la
tecnologa de los ordenadores y su inmersin en la
vida cotidiana, ms an en la de los investigadores
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Bibliografa
1. Bueno, J. L.; Gutirrez Lavin, A., Teoria y prctica
de la sedimentacin, en Ingeniera Qumica, N
207, Junio 1986, pgs. 159-171.
2. Norma Cubana NRIB 579 de 1983.
3. Rosabal Vega, J.; Valle, M., Hidrodinmica y separaciones mecnicas, Cuba, Editorial ENPES, 1989,
pgs. 195-216.
4. Samarski, A. A., Introduccin a los mtodos numricos, Mosc, Editorial Mir, 1986, pgs. 82-99.
5. Surez Alonso, M., Matemtica numrica, La Habana, Editorial Pueblo y Educacin, 1980.
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