Medium pressure filters

The most important feature of the pressure filters which use hydrauHc pressure to drive the process is that they can generate a pressure drop across the medium of more than 1 x 10 Pa which is the theoretical limit of vacuum filters. While the use of a high pressure drop is often advantageous, lea ding to higher outputs, drier cakes, or greater clarity of the overflow, this is not necessarily the case. Eor compressible cakes, an increase in pressure drop leads to a decrease in permeabiUty of the cake and hence to a lower filtration rate relative to a given pressure drop. 

The fundamental case for pressure filters may be made using equation 10 for dry cake production capacity Y (kg/m s) derived from Darcy s law when the filter medium resistance is neglected. Eor the same cycle time (same speed), if the pressure drop is increased by a factor of four, production capacity is doubled. In other words, filtration area can be halved for the same capacity but only if is constant. If increases with pressure drop, and depending how fast it increases, the increased pressure drop may not give much more capacity and may actually cause capacity reductions. 

There are many technical problems to be considered when developing a new commercial and viable filter. However, the filtration hardware in itself is not enough, as the control of a continuous pressure filter is much more difficult than that of its equivalents in vacuum filtration the necessary development may also include an automatic, computerized control system. This moves pressure filtration from low to medium or even high technology. Disk Filters. 

Thickening Pressure Filters. The most important disadvantage of conventional cake filtration is the declining rate due to the increased pressure drop caused by the growth of the cake on the filter medium. A high flow rate of Hquid through the medium can be maintained if Httle or no cake is allowed to form on the medium. This leads to thickening of the slurry on the upstream part of the medium filters based on this principle are sometimes called filter thickeners. 

Dislodging of Cake by Reverse Flow. Intermittent back-flushing of the filter medium can also be used to control cake growth, leading to filtration through thin cakes in short cycles. Conventional vacuum or pressure filters can be modified to counter the effects of the forces during the back-flush (23,24). 

Rotary Drum Filters The rotaiy drum filter is the most widely used of the continuous filters. There are many design variations, including operation as either a pressure filter or a vacuum filter. The major difference between designs is in the technique for cake discharge, to be discussed later. All the alternatives are characterized by a horizontal-axis drum covered on the cylindrical portion by filter medium over a grid support structure to allow drainage to manifolds. Basic materials of construc tion may be metals or plastics. Sizes (in terms of filter areas) range from 0.37 to 186 m (4 to 2000 ft ). 

In the true gravity case, pumps are not used. If, however, the liquid is highly viscous, to achieve efficient operation, pumps are required to force the fluid through the pressure filters. The pump can be considered essentially as a press with a plate-and-frame filter. The plate-and-frame filter consists of a series ot frames over which the filter medium is stretched. A centrifugal basket of fine mesh is another method of particulate removal. 

Irradiation of lomefloxacin 271 in dilute neutral aqueous solution (in which it exists as a zwitter ion) in Pyrex-filtered 500 W medium pressure mercury (Helios Italquartz) at 17°C gave pyrrolo[3,2,l-(/ ]quinoline 272 (99JOC5388). Under this condition, reductive defluorination via a radical anion took place. This study is important because of the phototoxicity of the fluorinated compounds which could be used as antibacterials (Scheme 49). 

A solution of the 2-azido ester or amide (ca. 2 g) in a mixture of MeOII (95 mL) and sodium-dried THF (95 mL) was photolyzed under N2 in a Hanovia photochemical reactor (110-W medium-pressure Hg lamp with a Pyrex filter). The reaction was monitored by observing the rate of disappearance of the absorption band (Nf) at 2140 cm 1 (irradiation times of 3-5 h were generally required). When the reaction was complete the solvent was removed in vacuo and the brown residual oil chromatographed on alumina [petroleum ether (bp 60-803C)/benzene 7 3]. Further elution with benzene followed by removal of the solvent gave the product (the esters as pale yellow oils, the amides as crystalline solids), which were further purified by vacuum distillation or by recrysiallization. 

A solution of the quinoxaline 1-oxide (4 mmol) in cyclohexane was degassed by boiling and passing N2 through and irradiated with a medium-pressure water-cooled Hg lamp (Hanau TQ 150), equipped with a Pyrex filter, until conversion was complete. The solvent was evaporated in vacuo at 20 C and the residue was extracted with a small amount of cyclohexane. The product was deposited on strong cooling. Attempted chromatography resulted in the formation of AfW-diacylbenzene-l,2-diamines. 

The reaction mixture is cooled, diluted with 100 mL of sat. aq NaCI and extracted with four 50-mL portions of Ei,0. The combined ethereal extracts are washed with 50 ml. of sat. aq NaCI, dried, filtered and concentrated to a volume of a few milliliters. 20 ntL of petroleum ether arc added to precipitate the soluble salts. The mixture is filtered through a silica gel column (petroleum ether)and purified by medium-pressure liquid chromatography yield 360 mg (65%). 

Supply of MU water for a medium-pressure (450 psig) WT boiler, from a surface water source with very variable suspended solids and hardness (sugar refinery, South Africa). The process used is a. carbonate removal using hot-lime precipitation softening coupled with silica adsorption by magnesia addition b. clarification in anthracite filters and c. cation ion-exchange for the balance of hardness removal. 

The apparatus is dried in an oven at 140° overnight and cooled under nitrogen or argon prior to the irradiation. A Vycor filter sleeve and a 450-watt medium-pressure mercury lamp are placed in the immersion well. The Vycor filter, the quartz immersion well (catlog No. 19434), the 450-watt mercury lamp (catalog No. 679A36), and the requisite transformer are all available from Hanovia Lamp Division, Canrad-Hanovia Inc., 100 Chestnut Street, Newark, New Jersey 07105. 

By far, the most frequently used device is the ultraviolet detector. Three types are employed (23) — single wavelength with low pressure mercury source, multiwavelength filter photomer with medium pressure mercury source, and spectrophotometer. 

If a constant pressure difference is maintained across a filter medium and filter cake, then for the filtration of volume of liquid F, filtration time is proportional to the square of F. 

Rates of photodegradation of copolymer films were measured in air using a filtered medium pressure Hg arc as the source of radiation and o-nitrobenzaldehyde as the actinometer. Table 1 gives the dosage levels incident on these films. 

Burdick and Jackson). All solutions were photolyzed to less than 5% conversion in a standard 3 ml capacity, 1-cm path length quartz cell. Samples were irradiated with a 450-Watt medium pressure, Hanovla mercury lamp focused through an appropriate band-pass filter (280 nm or 254 nm) onto the 1-cm quartz cell with the requisite solution. Test solutions could be purged with either helium or oxygen using a needle valve assembly attached to the tapered quartz cell neck. The loss of carbamate due to photolysis and the amounts of known photoproducts were determined quantitatively by GC using eicosane as an internal standard. The columns were 6 stainless steel containing Carbowax 20M on chromosorb G. 

Watt medium pressure mercury lamp through a pyrex filter, b - Ha, Hx, He, H5, Hc and represent the integrated areas of... 

Figure 1. Exotherm curves for exposure of mixtures of 10 weight percent MM and diacrylate monomers (200 ppm hydroquinone inhibitor) to medium pressure mercury lamp through Pyrex filter (I = 19.4 mW cm 2).

Figure 5. UV absorption spectra of a thin film of an equimolar mixture of TTDBM/SEGDVE as a function of exposure time to a Pyrex-filtered medium pressure mercury lamp (I 19 mW cm"2).

Figure 7. Exotherms of equimolar mixtures of MPBM and CHVE in air and nitrogen exposed to a medium pressure mercury lamp through a Pyrex filter (I 19 mW cm 2).

Mixtures of 25-30% fluorine diluted with nitrogen were used in this work. The gas mixtures were prepared in a secondary container. The appropriate polyether was dissolved either in perfluoro-2-butyl-THF (FC-75) or in Krytox GPL 100 (a fluorinated oil), which also contained about 5 g of pulverized NaF to absorb the relased HE The reaction mixture was cooled to - 10°C, stirred with the aid of a vibromixer and irradiated with a 450-W medium-pressure mercury lamp. A stream of fluorine in nitrogen (ca. 140 ml/min) was passed into the mixture such that the temperature did not rise above +10°C. The reaction was stopped after 200 mmol of fluorine had been passed through. The mixture was poured into water and the organic layer was washed with sodium bicarbonate solution. The water layer was extracted twice with CFCL. The combined fluorocarbon fractions were washed with water, dried with MgS04, and filtered, and the solvent was removed under reduced pressure. 

This indoline derivative has antihypertensive and diuretic actions. Indapamide (233) in methanol under nitrogen was irradiated with a medium-pressure mercury lamp through a copper sulphate filter solution for 12 h. The filter removed wavelengths below 300 nm. Products were separated by preparative TLC and identified as 2-methylindoline (234), the formylhydrazide (235), the amide (237) and semicarbazide. The procedure was repeated under oxygen to give the above products plus the urethane (236), acid (238), ester (239) and TV-acetylanthranilic acid [146]. 

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