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Plate and Frame Filter Press

This document provides instructions for operating a plate and frame filter press. It describes the setup, working principle, and experimental procedure. Solids are deposited on filter cloth-covered plates as liquid passes through under pressure. Observations are made of filtrate volume over time to determine filtration rate parameters like specific cake resistance and filter medium resistance. Calculations are shown to find concentration, compressibility factor, and resistances based on measurements of pressure drop, area, viscosity, and dry cake mass.

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Plate and Frame Filter Press

This document provides instructions for operating a plate and frame filter press. It describes the setup, working principle, and experimental procedure. Solids are deposited on filter cloth-covered plates as liquid passes through under pressure. Observations are made of filtrate volume over time to determine filtration rate parameters like specific cake resistance and filter medium resistance. Calculations are shown to find concentration, compressibility factor, and resistances based on measurements of pressure drop, area, viscosity, and dry cake mass.

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Plate & frame

filter press

instrute
ch
INSTRUCTION
MANUAL
PLATE AND FRAME FILTER PRESS

SET UP
DESCRIPTION
SPECIFICATIONS
INSTALLATION REQUIREMENTS
INSTALLATION AND CONNECTIONS
PRECAUTIONS
TROUBLE SHOOTING

EXPREMENTATION
WORKING PRINCIPLE
AIM
PROCEDURE
OBSERVATION TABLE
CALCULATIONS
REASULTS

INTRODUCTION:
A filter press contains a set of plates designed to provide a series of chambers or
compartments in which solids may collect. The plates are covered with a filter
medium such as canvas. Slurry is admitted to each compartment under pressure;
liquor passes through the canvas and out discharge pipe, leaving a wet cake of
solids behind.
The plates of filter press are square in shape and compartments are designed so
that they formed as in the plate and frame filter press. Plates and filter cloth
squeezed tightly together by a screw so as to make it leak-proof.
Auxiliary channel carry slurry from the main inlet channel into each frame. Here the
solids are deposited on the cloth covered faces of the plates. Liquor passes through
the cloth, down grooves or corrugations in the plate faces, and out of the press.
After assembly of press, slurry is admitted under pressure of 3 to 5 atm. Filtration is
continue until liquor is no longer flows out the discharge or filtration pressure
suddenly rises.
An air should be blown to press after filtration to remove remaining liquor from the
slurry. Now it will give a wet cake.

PREOCEDURE:
1. Prepare 5 % slurry of CaCO3 in the filtration feed vessel.
2. Blow air in slurry for agitation.
3. Now admit air in the vessel up to 1.5 kg/cm.
4. Prepare filter press and start filtration and start stop watch simultaneously.
5. Note down VOLUME of filtrate with respect to time.
6. Note the drop in rate of filtrate due to cake resistance.
7. After filtration remove wet cake and dry it to note its weight.
8. Clean filter cloth after filtration.

OBSERVATIONS:
1. Size of filter plate = m.
2. Total area of press = m.
3. conc. Of slurry
4. Viscosity of filtrate = N-S/m.
5. Density of filtrate kgs/m.
6. mass of wet cake = kgs.(mf)
7. mass of dry cake = kgs.(mc)
8. Slope of graph on y axis (Kp) = sec/m6.
9. Intercept of graph on y-axis () = sec/m.
10.p kgs/m or n/m.

Sr.n Vol. of Time V /V V =


v1+v2
o filtrate V cm taken cc.
2

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

CALCULATIONS:
1. Specific cake resistance: = A.kp (p)
C X .
2. Area of filtration - m.

3. Kp = slope of graph sec/m6.

4. C = conc. Of slurry.

5. p = pressure drop. N/m.

6. = viscosity of filtrate. N-s/m.

7. C = Cs
1- [Me/Mc -1] Cs/

= kgs/m.
Here Cs = initial concentration.

8. Rm = A. (p)

9. Compressibility factor S = slope of log v/s (p).
= Specific cake resistance
Rm= filter medium resistance
A = area of filtering surface
= area of plates X no of plates
= Viscosity of filtrate= 0.866 cp.
W = mass of accumulated dry solids
Gc = 9.81

= Calculate for any two successive observation.
v

= time between successive observation.


v = increment of filtrate collected over time period
v 1+v 2
V= in m/kg & Rm in m.
2
No. of plates = 9
Size of plate = (19.6 X 19.6) = 384.16 cm
Total area of plates = 384.16 X 9 = 3457.44 cm.

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