Classifiers gravity

Vacuum filters are available in a variety of types, and are usually classified as either batch operated or continuous. An important distinguishing feature is the position of the filtration area with respect to gravity, ie, horizontal or non-horizontal filtering surface. 

M = mechanical transport of sands to discharge N = nonmechanical gravity or pressure S = sedimentation classifier and F = fiuidized-bed classifier. 

In a general sense, however, the term heavy oil is often appHed to a petroleum that has a gravity <20° API. The term heavy oil has also been arbitrarily used to describe both the heavy oil that requires thermal stimulation for recovery from the reservoir and the bitumen in bituminous sand (also known as tar sand or oil sand) formations, from which the heavy bituminous material is recovered by a mining operation. Extra heavy oil is the subcategory of petroleum that occurs in the near-soHd state and is incapable of free flow under ambient conditions. The bitumen from tar sand deposits is often classified as an extra heavy oil. 

In the operational sense, some filters are batch devices, whereas others are continuous. This difference provides the principal basis for classifying cake filters in the discussion that follows. The driving force by which the filter functions—hydrostatic head ( gravity ), pressure imposed by a pump or a gas blanket, or atmospheric pressure ( vacuum )— will be used as a secondary criterion. 

The classifying operation is carried out in a pool of fluid pulp confined in a tank arranged to allow the coarse solids to settle out, whereupon they are removed by gravity, mechanical means, or induced pressure. Solids which do not settle report as overflow. Mesh of sepa-... 

M Mechanical transport of sands to discharge N Noumechauical (gravity or pressure) discharge of underflow S Sedimentation classifier F Fluidized bed classifier... 

Beneficiation Ball and pebble mills, batch or continuous, offer considerable opportunity for combining a number of processing steps that include grinding [Underwood, Jnd. Eng. Chem., 30, 905 (1938)]. Mills followed by air classifiers can sei ve to separate components of mixtures because of differences in specific gravity and... 

Gravity decanter, illustration, 243, 244 Happel/Jordan method, 241 Horizontal gravity, 239 Lamella classifiers, 239 Settler vessel, illustration, 240 Time planning and scheduling, process design, 36... 

Analysis procedures can be additionally classified into procedures that involve physical properties, wet chemical analysis procedures, and instrumental chemical analysis procedures. Analysis using physical properties involves no chemical reactions and at times relatively simple devices (although possibly computerized) to facilitate the measurement. Physical properties are especially useful for identification, but may also be useful for quantitative analysis in cases where the value of a property, such as specific gravity or refractive index (Chapter 15), varies with the quantity of an analyte in a mixture. 

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