ROTARY VACUUM FILTER.

XLS
Prediction of Throughput of a RVF - effect of feed preconcentration
based on leaf test data for moisture, cake and cloth resistance

INPUTS: ******* ******* ******* ******* ******* CALCULATED VALUES:

Drum speed in rpm: 0.333 rpm ******* rps: 0.00555
Fractional submergence: 0.3 (-) ******* form time 54.054054
Drum area: 1 m^2 *******
Total filtration pressure: 64386.562 Pa *******
Liquid viscosity: 0.001 Pa s *******
Liquid density: 1000 kg/m^3 *******
Specific resistance: 2.2E+11 m/kg *******
Cloth resistance: 5.53E+09 m^-1 *******
Moisture ratio: 1.8 (-) *******
IF CAKE DEPTH IS NEEDED: ******* ******* Intermediate values used in calculations:
Solid density: 2650 kg/m^3 ******* Slurry
******* ******* ******* ******* ******* * conc.
Slurry ******* Cake Dry sol. Slurry Slurry * as mass
conc ******* depth thru' thru' thru' * fraction
(% w/w) ******* (mm) (kg/h) (kg/h) (l/h) *
20 ******* 4 62 312 273 * 0.2
22 ******* 4 67 306 264 * 0.22
24 ******* 4 73 302 257 * 0.24
26 ******* 5 78 300 252 * 0.26
28 ******* 5 84 300 248 * 0.28
30 ******* 5 90 301 245 * 0.3
32 ******* 6 97 304 243 * 0.32
34 ******* 6 105 308 243 * 0.34
36 ******* 7 113 314 244 * 0.36
38 ******* 7 123 323 247 * 0.38
40 ******* 8 134 335 251 * 0.4
42 ******* 9 147 350 258 * 0.42
44 ******* 10 163 370 269 * 0.44
46 ******* 11 183 398 284 * 0.46
48 ******* 12 211 439 308 * 0.48
 250
dry solids throughput, kg/h. 200
ED VALUES:
150
seconds 100

50

0
15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50
slurry conc. wt %.

values used in calculations:

Dry First Second Volume
weight coeff. of coeff. of filtrate
per unit equation equation produced
volume (2.23) (2.23)
(m^3)
312.5 5932052.2 286.29162 0.0029946
364.23841 6914180 286.29162 0.0027754
422.53521 8020803 286.29162 0.0025782
488.7218 9277194.4 286.29162 0.0023984
564.51613 10715965 286.29162 0.0022326
652.17391 12379935 286.29162 0.002078
754.71698 14326466 286.29162 0.0019325
876.28866 16634208 286.29162 0.0017941
1022.7273 19413989 286.29162 0.0016613
1202.5316 22827138 286.29162 0.0015326
1428.5714 27117953 286.29162 0.0014066
1721.3115 32674910 286.29162 0.0012818
2115.3846 40155430 286.29162 0.0011567
2674.4186 50767330 286.29162 0.001029
3529.4118 66997295 286.29162 0.0008961