Back filter candles

Originally a hot gas filter of the ceramic type was installed. This filter consisted of ceramic filter candles arranged in six groups with separate back-pulsing. 

During the summer 1998 it was decided to install metal filter candles instead of the ceramic candles in the main hot gas filter. The metal filter candles are installed in the original filter vessels but with a new tube sheet and back-pulsing arrangement. 

Tuhtdar Presses As the name implies, this press is composed of a candle filter inside a cyhndrical hydrauhc casing (Fig. 18-192). The filter cloth is wrapped around the filter candle, and a diaphragm is attached to the inner side of the outer casing. During the filtration step, the space in between two cylinders is filled with slurry, and pressure filtration is conducted. At the end of the filtration step, the diaphragm is inflated to squeeze the cake around the filter candle. At the end of expression, the bottom of the hydrauhc casing tube is opened and the filter assembly is lowered. Air is then introduced to pulse the cake off the candle. Alter the cake is discharged, the inner filter candle moves back, and the bottom is closed for the next filtration cycle. 

Some PFBC boiler designs incorporate high-temperature, high-pressure (HTHP) filter devices in the flue-gas stream. These are installed primarily to protec t the gas turbine from erosion damage by the fine particles that escape the cyclones, but as the filters remove virtually all the suspended particulates, they also eliminate the need for back-end removal. The commonest HTHP filter elements used are rigid ceramic candles. 

Candle filters. These consist of multiple high-temperature ceramic or sintered-metal candles fitted within a plenum and a nitrogen supply for online periodic back flushing. Captured particulate matter is discharged into a steel container through a rotary air lock. The particulates are processed in the MPT to ensure 5X decontamination. 

Fig. 9.3. Acid mist removal candle filter being installed atop a stainless steel H2SO4 making tower. It is one of many. Exiting gas passes inward through the candle fabric and out the top of the candle - then out of the tower. The acid mist is caught in the candle fabric by impact, diffusion and Brownian forces (Brink, 2005 Friedman and Friedman, 2004 Lee and Byszewski, 2005 Ziebold and Azwell, 2005). The large total area of the candles gives a low gas velocity through the fabric, which allows 99+% capture of the mist. The captured mist trickles down the fabric and drips back into the tower or into collection pipes (Outokumpu 2005).

Control of the back-pressure level required for efllbctive back-flushing has bear claimed with the use of flat perforated plate elements in the Cricket filter [Filtration and Separation, Sep/Oct., 1991]. Automatic, semicontinuous cleaning of tubular candle filters can also be realised by momentary reversal of the filtrate flow a resulting bump is defivered to the cake, which is dModged and Ds to the cone-shaped bottom of the unit, Bgure 11.53. The effectiveness of these filters is inproved by the use of filter media whkh can handle veiy dilute suspensions of fine (< 0.5 pm) particles, e.g. PIPE membranes). 

A filter that resembles a candle filter is the Cricket filter (from Amafilter), which is so-named because the elements, rather than being cylindrical, are flattened so as to resemble a cricket bat in shape. Each element was suspended from a filtrate collection manifold to which was connected an internal filtrate pipe rising from the bottom of the element. The small volume of each element and the flat surface ensmed complete cake removal during blow-back. 

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