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Other types of coalescing filters include combination units that use three basic operations of liquid-gas surface and depth coalescing, vapour phase adsorption and final particle filtration to remove free entrained water, water-oil emulsions, free oil, oil vapours, dirt particles and some types of entrained organic liquids and vapours. 

The scale-up of conventional cake filtration uses the basic filtration equation (eq. 4). Solutions of this equation exist for any kind of operation, eg, constant pressure, constant rate, variable pressure—variable rate operations (2). The problems encountered with scale-up in cake filtration are in estabHshing the effective values of the medium resistance and the specific cake resistance. 

This can be substituted for in the basic filtration equation 4, which can then be solved for the filtration operation in question. 

This allows each section, as it rotates, to go through a series of operations such as filtration, dewatering, cake washing, and discharge. Two basic designs exist, depending on the method of soHds discharge. 

Nutsche filters are well suited for handling flammable, toxic, corrosive and odor-noxious materials since they are autoclaved and designed for use in hazardous and ex-proof environments when extremely safe operation is required. They are available in almost any size with the larger machines for a slurry filling batch of 25 m and a cake volume of 10 m Such filters have a filtration area of 15 m and are suitable for fast filtering slurries that produce readily 0.5 m thick cakes. The basic configuration is shown in Figure 11. 

The stirred batch reactors are easy to operate and their configurations avoid temperature and concentration gradient (Table 5). These reactors are useful for hydrolysis reactions proceeding very slowly. After the end of the batch reaction, separation of the powdered enzyme support and the product from the reaction mixture can be accomplished by a simple centrifugation and/or filtration. Roffler et al. [114] investigated two-phase biocatalysis and described stirred-tank reactor coupled to a settler for extraction of product with direct solvent addition. This basic experimental setup can lead to a rather stable emulsion that needs a long settling time. 

The basic unit operations/processes required for treating the acid pickling wastewater are (a) neutralization with NaOH and/or lime to increase the pH and (b) physicochemical methods, such as chemical coagulation, precipitation, clarification (sedimentation or DAF), and filtration to remove BOD5, COD, and iron. 

The operation cycle is a stepwise process. The essential steps are filling the vessel, filtration (service), back-pulse (cleaning), cake settling, and sludge discharge. In practice, the steps will vary in length from application to application, but all working operation sequences include these basic steps, which will be addressed in order. 

Equation 7.8 may be regarded as the basic relation between —AP, V, and /. Two important types of operation are (i) where the pressure difference is maintained constant and (ii) where the rate of filtration is maintained constant. 

As the drum rotates, each compartment undergoes the same cycle of operations and the duration of each of these is determined by the drum speed, the submergence of the drum and the arrangement of the valve. The normal cycle of operations consists of filtration, drying and discharge. It is also possible, however, to introduce other operations into the basic cycle, including ... 

The cationic polymerization of 2-vinylfuran with strong acids can be allowed to proceed to black crosslinked resins which display a remarkable proton affinity when swelled in organic solvents (19). Their very high Lewis basicity can be exploited to scavenge Bronsted acids the insoluble resin is easily removed by filtration at the end of the operation and readily regenerated by neutralization with a strong Bronsted base. 

Fluorhydroxyapatite can be synthesised by the traditional double-decomposition method generally used for apatite precipitation. An ammonium phosphate and fluoride solution (solution B) is added, dropwise, into a hot (generally at boiling temperature) calcium solution (solution A) at a basic pH level as previously published [122,123]. Fluorapatites close to stoichiometry are obtained (a = 2, see the following reaction equation) however, a very small residual amount of OH always seems to be present. Filtration and several washing operations are necessary to remove the counter-ions. The reaction is almost total due to the very low solubility of fluorhydroxyapatites. 

Bearing in mind the previous discussion, there are basic official or unofficial sterilization procedures, all of which are overkills, designed to kill or get rid of the very last and most resistant organism in the system being treated. Filtration is, of course, designed to physically remove all bacteria present. It does not usually remove viruses or mycoplasms and, as noted above, some of the assumptions made during a filtration process need to be very carefully evaluated by the operator. 

E. Separations. The basic filtration operation has been previously illustrated. Low-temperature filtrations for the collection of thermally sensitive compounds or products which arc soluble al higher temperatures may be performed with an H-type Schlenk tube. Fig. 1.30, in a large low-temperature bath. The jacketed, fritted funnel illustrated in Fig. 1.25 also permits low-temperature filtration. 

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