ISSN:
0001-1541
Keywords:
Chemistry
;
Chemical Engineering
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
,
Process Engineering, Biotechnology, Nutrition Technology
Notes:
In 1856 Darcy observed that water flowed through a sand bed at a rate proportional to the area of the bed and to the difference between the upstream and dowstream hydraulic heads and inversely proportional to the bed thickness. Since that time many investigators have accumulated masses of data in support of numerous theoretical and empirical relationships for correlating and predicting pressure drop, flow rate, and fluid and bed properties. Naturally certain areas of research have received less attention than others.Among the areas receiving least attention are flow through beds composed of particles of identical shape but mixed size, flow through unconsolidated beds composed of small particles, and flow under the influence of a centrifugal driving force. Accordingly, the flow of liquids through unconsolidated beds of small spherical particles of mixed size was investigated in two laboratory centrifugal filters. Experimental conditions were such that the flow was laminar and the cakes were incompressible. While there was some difficulty in obtaining reproducibility of cakes, the data for any particular cake were correlated satisfactorily by the Darcy equation adapted for centrifugal filtration.
Additional Material:
4 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aic.690060112
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