JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING OF JAPAN
Online ISSN : 1881-1299
Print ISSN : 0021-9592
CONSTANT RATE AND VARIABLE PRESSURE-VARIABLE RATE FILTRATION OF POWER-LAW NON-NEWTONIAN FLUIDS
MOMPEI SHIRATOTSUTOMU ARAGAKIEm IRITANITORU FUNAHASHI
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1980 Volume 13 Issue 6 Pages 473-478

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Constant rate and variable pressure-variable rate filtration operations, which may be more frequently encountered in industrial filtrations involving centrifugal pumps, are investigated by using so-called power-law non-Newtonian fluids. Filtration pressure was manually controlled so that constant rate or variable pressure-variable rate filtration experiments were executed. Slurries of Hyflo Super-Cel in sodium polyacrylate-deionized water solutions were filtered, the slurry concentration s being 0.18. The flow behavior index N of the filtrate was about 0.3. Based upon the theories for constant pressure filtration of power-law non-Newtonian fluids presented in the previous paper, methods are presented for analyzing constant rate and variable pressure-variable rate filtration operations. The methods can be used for evaluating not only the overall filtration characteristics of the average specific resistance γav for filtration of power-law fluids and the ratio m of wetto-dry cake mass but also the detailed internal structures of the filter cake during filtration operations. It is also shown that good agreement exists between theories and experiments.

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