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ExChEL Group Study Session 28 - Filtration

The document summarizes an ExChEL Group study session that discusses various principles of chemical engineering related to filtration. It includes 20 multiple choice questions covering topics like cake formation, filter media types, filtration rates, centrifuge operation, and design of plate and frame filter presses. The study session was held on September 20, 2016 for the listed group of students.

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ExChEL Group Study Session 28 - Filtration

The document summarizes an ExChEL Group study session that discusses various principles of chemical engineering related to filtration. It includes 20 multiple choice questions covering topics like cake formation, filter media types, filtration rates, centrifuge operation, and design of plate and frame filter presses. The study session was held on September 20, 2016 for the listed group of students.

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ExChEL Group Study Session

(BILLONES, FULGENCIO, LAYUG, LOPEZ, SAMPAGA)


(Session no.28, September 20, 2016)

Chemical Engineering Principles Filtration


1. The volume of cake formation filtrate per unit area will change by a factor of ___ if the cake wash
time is doubled.
a.
c. 2
b. 4
d. Cannot be determined
2. In these devices, provisions are made to separate the collected dust from the particles either
continuously or periodically, so that the units can operate continuously on gases for moderate to
high dust concentrations.
a. Tilting-pan filter
c. Cleanable granular-bed filter
b. String discharge filter
d. Removable-medium filter
3. In a leaf filter, the rate of washing is ______ the final filtration rate.
a. Half
c. Equal to
b. A quarter of
d. Twice
4. Cake thickness may be controlled by
a. Reducing the vacuum level in the filtrate formation portion of the filter valve
b. Adjusting the bridge-blocks in the filter valve to increase the effective submergence
c. Reducing the slurry level in the vat
d. All of these
5. The minimum cake thickness for discharge of standard scraper filter.
a. 0.25 mm
c. 0.635 cm
b. 6 in
d. m
6. When the viscosity of the liquid phase in the feed slurry is decreased, the cake moisture content
a. Increases
c. Decreases
b. Remains constant
d. Changes variably
7. A filter media that has poor resistance to alkalis but excellent resistance to oxidizing agents and
solvents.
a. Polypropylene
c. Glass
b. Modacryclic
d. Fluorocarbon
8. A continuous filtering centrifuge with a capacity of 80 tons/h solids.
a. Reciprocating pusher
c. Differential conveyor
b. Screen-bowl decanter
d. Ultracentrifuge
9. An inverting filter centrifuge has a minimum feed solids concentration of 5% by wt and a minimum
mean particle size of 2 microns. What is its minimum velocity in m/s?
a. 2 x 10-7
c. 5 x10-8
b. 2 x 10-6
d. 1 x 10-7
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10. Which of the following is false?


a. Batch filters may be operated with constant-pressure driving force, at constant rate, or in
cycles that are constant with respect to both pressure and rate.
b. In continuous filtration, the resistance of the filter cake is very large with respect to that
of the filter media and filtrate drainage.
c. Filtration is the separation of a fluid-solids mixture involving a passage of most of the fluid
through a porous barrier.
d. None of these
11. A plate and frame press gave a total of 8 m3 of ltrate in 1800 s and 11.3 m3 in 3600 s when ltration
was stopped. Estimate the washing time if 3 m3 of wash water is used. The resistance of the cloth
may be neglected and a constant pressure is used throughout.
a. 3.6 hr
c. 8500 s
b. 2.3 hr
d. 257 s
12. A rotary lter, operating at 0.03 Hz, lters at the rate of 0.0075 m 3/s. Operating under the same
vacuum and neglecting the resistance of the lter cloth, at what speed must the lter be operated
to give a ltration rate of 0.0160 m3/s?
a. 5.4 rpm
c. 0.157 Hz
b. 7.2 rpm
d. 0.240 Hz
For numbers 13 and 14, refer to the problem:
A slurry containing 100 kg of whiting, of density 3000 kg/m3, per m3 of water, and, is ltered in a
plate and frame press, which takes 900 s to dismantle, clean, and re-assemble. The density of the
whiting is 3000 kg/m3. The resistance of the lter medium may be neglected and the viscosity of
water is 1 mNs/m2. In an experiment, a pressure difference of 165 kN/m2 produced a ow of water
of 0.02 cm3/s through a centimeter cube of lter cake.
13. If the cake is incompressible and has a voidage of 0.4, what is the optimum thickness of cake for a
ltration pressure (P) of 1000 kN/m2?
a. 40 mm
c. 60 mm
b. 50 mm
d. 70 mm

14. If the cake is washed at 500 kN/m2 and the total volume of wash water employed is 25 percent of
that of the ltrate, what is the optimum thickness of the cake?
a. 40 mm
c. 60 mm
b. 50 mm
d. 70 mm
For numbers 15 and 16, refer to the problem:
A slurry, containing 0.2 kg of solid per kilogram of water, is fed to a rotary drum lter 0.6 m long
and 0.6 m diameter. The drum rotates at one revolution in 360 s and 20 percent of the ltering
surface is in contact with the slurry at any instant. The density of the solids is 3000 kg/m 3. The
rotary lter breaks down and the operation has to be carried out temporarily in a plate and frame
press with frames 0.3 m square. The press takes 120 s to dismantle and 120 s to reassemble and,
in addition, 120 s is required to remove the cake from each frame. It may be assumed that the
cakes are incompressible and that the resistance of the lter medium may be neglected.

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15. If ltrate is produced at the rate of 0.125 kg/s and the cake has a voidage of 0.5, what thickness of
cake is produced when ltering with a pressure difference of 65 kN/m2?
a. 7.2 mm
c. 7.5 mm
b. 2.7 mm
d. 5.7 mm
16. If filtration is to be carried out at the same overall rate as before, with an operating pressure
difference of 175 kN/m2, what is the minimum number of frames that needs to be used?
a. 2
c. 10
b. 6
d. 15
17. What is the thickness of each frame?
a. 120 mm
b. 110 mm

c. 40 mm
d. 50 mm

18. A rotary drum filter (1.5 m OD) with 40% of its filtering area submerged in the slurry, turns at 0.5
rpm. The filtrate production is 0.72 cubic meter per min per square meter of filtering area
submerged when filtering lime slurry. Average production is 27 cubic meters of filtrate per hour.
What is the length of the drum?
a. 1.6 cm
c. 51 cm
b. 33 cm
d. 6.1 cm
19. A plate and frame filter press with 10 frames is used to filter a slurry at a constant pressure. Total
filtration area is 82 ft2 and the filter delivers 500 lbs of filtrate in an hour. If 10 more frames are
added to the filter press, while other conditions remain the same, what is the time to produce 500
lbs of filtrate, assuming no filter medium resistance?
a. 10.1 min
c. 15.0 min
b. 7.5 min
d. 15.8 min
20. A PFFP is used to filter a certain sludge for 1.5 hours at constant pressure. Washing is done by using
15 percent of the filtrate volume collected. The time of washing is
a. 100 min
c. 108 min
b. 1.8 min
d. 50 min

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