Rate operator

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. 

Factors affecting RO membrane separations and water flux include feed variables such as solute concentration, temperature, pH, and pretreatment requirements membrane variables such as polymer type, module geometry, and module arrangement and process variables such as feed flow rate, operating time and pressure, and water recovery. 

DCC uses heavy VGO as feedstoek and has die same features has the FCC but with the following differenees speeial eatalyst, high eatalyst-to-oil ratio, higher steam injeetion rate, operating temperature, residenee time, and lower operating pressure. 

Negative rated operating pressure Tlie tested maximum negative pressure at which a duct is rated. 

Positive rated operating pressure The rested maximum positive pressure at which the duct is rated. 

The manufacturer based on reasonable service life expectancy under specified operating conditions determine the pressure rating of a pump. It is important to note that there is no standard industry-wide safety factor in this rating. Operating at higher pressure may result in reduced pump life or damage that is more serious. 

A test run is conducted to evaluate the performance of a 50,000 bpd (331 m /hr) FCC unit. The feed to the unit is gas oil from the vacuum unit. No recycle stream is processed however, the off-gas from the delayed coker is sent to the gas recovery section. Products from the unit are fuel gas, LPG, gasoline, LCO, and decanted oil (DO). Tables 5-2 and 5-3 contain stream flow rates, operating data, and laboratory analyses. The meter factors have been adjusted for actual operating conditions. 

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Operating costs are conveniently considered in two groups, fixed and variable costs those dependent on production rate and those that are independent of production rate. Operating costs can be further broken down into a number of key elements as indicated in Table 14.1, where estimation guidelines for continuous plant are also given [42]. Of critical interest in the present context is how these values vary between a batch and a continuous plant of nominally the same production rate. 

A critical issue in scaling up a process is the uniformity in deposition rate and material quality. In general, once the deposition rate is constant within 5% over the whole substrate area, the material properties also do not vary much. After fine-tuning the power and gas flow rates, operators still may face in homogeneity issues. These can be caused by local changes in temperature, RF voltage, and gas composition, due to various causes. As an example, it has been reported that improper attachment of the substrate to the grounded electrode results in a local decrease of the deposition rate [150, 151]. 

The HTTR is an experimental helium-cooled 30 MW(t) reactor. The HTTR is not designed for electrical power production, but its high temperature process heat capability makes it worthy of inclusion here. Construction started in March 1991 [47] and first criticality is expected in 1998 [48]. The prismatic graphite core of the HTTR is contained in a steel pressure vessel 13.3 m in height and 5.5 m in diameter. The reactor outlet coolant temperature is 850°C under normal rated operation and 950°C under high temperature test operation. The HTTR has a primary helium coolant loop with an intermediate helium-helium heat exchanger and a pressurized water cooler in parallel. The reactor is thus capable of providing... 

In the filtration of a sludge, the initial period is effected at a constant rate with the feed pump at full capacity, until the pressure differences reaches 400 kN/m2. The pressure is then maintained at this value for a remainder of the filtration. The constant rate operation requires 900 s and one-third of the total filtrate is obtained during this period. 

The purchaser will specify the equipment s normal and rated operating points. The purchaser will also specify any other anticipated operating conditions. The purchaser will specify when fluids are flammable or hazardous. 

The vendor shall provide eomplete performance curves, ineluding differential head, typieal efficieney, water NPSHR, and power expressed as funetions of capacity. The curves shall be extended to at least 120 percent of capacity at peak efficiency, and the rated operating point shall be indicated. The head curve for maximum and minimum impeller diameters shall be ineluded. The eye area of the first-stage impeller and the impeller identification number shall be shown on the curves. If applieable, the curves shall indicate viscosity corrections. Minimum flow (both thermal and stable), preferred and allowable operating regions, and any limitations of operation shall be indicated. 

Feed water salinity Feed flow rate Operating Pressure... 

The equipment shall be capable of operation at the normal and rated operating points and any other anticipated operating conditions specified by the purchaser. 

The key process parameters for filtration scale-up are trans-membrane pressure, filtration area, shear rate, operating time, temperature, flux rate, protein concentration, and solution viscosity (5). 

To discuss the separation of time scales, we begin with the argument that a system that reaches the continuum via a narrow bottleneck can exhibit more than one time scale [45a,b,f, 51]. Particular attention will be given to the question of when this will be the case. The argument begins by considering the time evolution in the bound subspace. As is well known [52,53, 54], one can confine attention to the bound levels by the introduction of an effective Hamiltonian H in which the coupling to the continuum is accounted foT by a rate operator T ... 

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