Spray single stage

Baffle separators of the Venetian blind, V, W, and wave types are widely used for spray removal. They have small space requirements and low pressure drops. They operate by diverting the gas stream and ejecting the droplets onto the collector baffles. Efficiencies of single stages may be only 40-60%, but by adding multiple stages, efficiencies approaching 100% may be obtained. 

Spray towers even 20-40 ft high cannot be depended on to function as more than a single stage. 

Many different vacuum bleacher designs are available (Figure 25) to the industry, some with single-stage spraying of the premixed clay/oil slurry into the vacuum... 

Complete descriptions of the particle beam, its operation, its experimental setup, and its utility in protein structural studies have been previously described. (8, 12). Relevant PB dimensions include a 25 pm diameter fused silica capillary for production of the aerosol spray, a 22 cm length desolvation chamber to remove solvent, a single stage momentum separator, and a nozzle-substrate distance of 5 mm. Particle beam deposits ranged in size from 20 pm to 100 pm in diameter, and averaged approximately 50 pm. Deposit were made onto a water insoluble calcium fluoride (CaFj) window (25 mm dia. x 2 mm) from International Crystal Laboratories (Garfield, NJ). 

Figure 354. Flow sheet of a single-stage spray dryer ...

In a single-stage spray dryer the process is finished when most of the moisture in the pore space has dried. The agglomerates accumulate in the lower part of the spray-drying chamber and are removed by the suction of a fan driving a dust-collection system. The agglomerates are collected in a cyclone while dust is collected in a wet scrubber. Material-laden scrubber water may be recirculated and mixed with the liquid feed. 

Fig. 6.4-8 Typical particle from single stage spray drying with small. .satellites" attached...

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