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These ideas of impeller flow, head and power input as related to operating variables have some merit for a qualitative description of the effects of the operating variables on the process. However, it requires extensive experience, and usually actual experiments, to decide whether a system performance is favored by a particular combination of flow and head. (Rushton and Oldshue (R12) note that high values of Q/3Care preferred for blending and solid suspension, low ratios for liquid-liquid and gas-liquid operations.) This approach still requires the systematic study of impeller speed and diameter as process variables. 

Here F filters a suspension and produces a clear filtrate as well as a concentrated suspension which is pumped into and out of reservoir RZ. During the process a fraction of the concentrated suspension is eliminated. In order to have a continuous process it is advisable to have working state values close to steady state values. The exit or output control variables (D and CD registered) are connected to a data acquisition system (DAS), which gives the computer (PC) the values of the filtrate flow rate and of the solid concentration for the suspension transported. 

The decisions made by the computer concerning the pressure of the pump-flow rate dependence and of the flow rate of the fresh suspension, are controlled by the micro-device of the execution system (ES). It is important to observe that the majority of the input process variables are not easily and directly observable. As a consequence, a good technological knowledge is needed for this purpose. If we look attentively at the xj — X5 input process variables, we can see that their values present a random deviation from the mean values. Other variables such as pump exit pressure and flow rate (xg,X7) can be changed with time in accordance with technological considerations. 

Particles of microcrystalline size can also be obtained by spray-drying procedures, resulting in a porous, free-flowing, easily wetted, essentially monodispersed powder. With proper control of process variables, spherical particles are obtained that may be coated with agents to aid suspension and promote stability. However, the process is not normally considered for the preparation of ultrafine powders. 

Most UF processes are operated in cross-flow mode. When the solvent of a mixture flows through the membrane, retained species are locally concentrated at the membrane surface and resist the flow. In the case of processing solution, this locahzed concentration of solute normally results in precipitation of a solute gel over the membrane. When processing a suspension, the solids collect as a porous layer over the membrane surface. In view of the above, it is clear that the permeate rate can be effectively controlled by the rate of transport through the polarization layer rather than hy membrane properties. Hence, UF throughput depends on physical properties of the membrane, such as permeability, thickness, and process and system variables like feed consumption, feed concentration, system pressure, velocity, and temperature. 

Recovery of cells can be accomplished using one of several alternative unit operations, such as centrifugation, membrane filtration, or settling. Subscripts are employed in the figure to identify the usual process variables at particular points in the diagram. We employ the recycle ratio (R) to represent the ratio of the volumetric flow rate of the suspension of cells leaving the separation device to the volumetric flow rate of the net product stream. The symbol t / represents the ratio of the concentration of biomass in the recycle stream to that in the effluent from the CSTBR. You may assume that the system is operating at steady state and that the feed is sterile. 

Set (7.1) consists of two vector and one scalar stochastic equation. This set is helpful in examining statistical properties of two vector (v and w ) and one scalar (p ) random unknown variable as functions of 1) the statistical properties of random variable 2) the macroscopic characteristics of suspension flow, and 3) physical parameters. Since Equations 7.1 are linear, it is natural to use the correlation theory of random processes when investigating these vector and scalar variables in terms of those functions [35], Particulars of necessary calculation are described at considerable length in reference [14,25). Here, we confine ourselves to only a brief enumeration of the major logical steps of this calculation. 

Baths, probes, and cup-horns are common laboratory equipment. For large-scale uses, other types of emitters are preferred. Whistles (Fig. 9) can be used for processing liquid mixtures or suspensions. The principle consists of injecting the mixture under a few bar overpressure through a variable slit onto a vibrating blade located in a resonant cavity. The advantage is the simplicity and the compatibility with a flow process the inconvenience is the erosion undergone by the blade. 

In the devolatilization of emulsion polymers, the mass transfer between the aqueous phase and the gas phase is frequently the rate-determining step. Consequently, the agitation, the gas flow rate, and other process variables or design characteristics that increase the interfadal area between the aqueous phase and the gas phase will improve the devolatilization. However, care must be taken to avoid foaming and coagulation. Column continuous countercurrent strippers are often used in devolatilization of suspension polymers, while stripping in tank reactors is more convenient for low-Tg film-forming latexes. 

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