Plain Dutch meshes

Grootenhuis (Proc. Inst. Mech. Eng. [London], A168, 837—846 [1954]) presents data which indicate that for a series of screens, the total pressure drop equals the number of screens times the pressure drop for one screen, and is not affected by the spacing between screens or their orientation with respect to one another, and presents a correlation for frictional losses across plain square-mesh screens and sintered gauzes. Armour and Cannon (AIChE J., 14,415-420 [1968]) give a correlation based on a packed bed model for plain, twill, and dutch weaves. For losses through monofilament fabrics see Pedersen (Filtr. Sep., 11, 586-589 [1975]). For screens Inclined at an angle 0, use the normal velocity component V ... 

FIGURE 13.1 Model Predicted Liquid Hydrogen Bubble Point Pressure Over the Anticipated Operating Range of a Cryogenic Fuel Depot for (a) Five Finest Dutch Twill, (b) Coarse Dutch Twill and Plain Dutch, and (c) Twilled and Plain Square Mesh Screens. All curves assume GHe pressurant and Tgas=Tuquid-... 

Textiles, as a woven cloth or a nonwoven fabric, are probably the most common industrial filter medium, and are made from natural (cotton, silk, wool) and synthetic fibres. Wire cloths and meshes are also widely used in industrial filtrafions, produced by weaving monofilaments of ferrous or non-ferrous metals the simpler plain weave is used for sieving and sizing operations, and the more complex weaves such as Dutch twills are used on pressure and vacuum filters. At the small scale, particularly for laboratory use, filter papers are common, made from fibrous cellulosic materials, glass fibre or synthetic polymers these papers are made using developments from conventional paper manufacturing processes. 

There are a number of different filter materials. Wire screens are the most common. Several t5 es of wire screens are available, such as the square mesh with plain weave and the square mesh with Dutch twill. There are also depth filtration media, such as sintered metal powder and random metal fibers. Advantages and disadvantages of different filter materials are shown in Table 1. 

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