Enhancement of fine particle filtration with efficient humidification

Filtration is one of the most effective methods to remove suspended fine particles from air. In filtration processes,pressure drop of compact dust cake causes problems in efficiency and economy, which has received increasing attention and still remains challenging. In this study, we developed a novel technique to intensify the filtration of fine particles with efficient humidification. Two strategies for humidification, including ultrasonic atomization and steam humidification(controlling of ambient humidity), were employed and proved to be both effective. The regeneration frequency of the filter could be reduced by 55% with ultrasonic atomization, while steam humidification could lead to a 78% reduction in regeneration frequency. The effect of operating conditions on pressure drop and the mass loading during filtration were investigated. The dust cake showed a loose and porous structure with an optimized droplet-to-particle ratio. With the ratio of 1.53 and 0.0282, the maximum mass loading was 552 g·m-2upon the ultrasonic atomization and 720 g·m-2upon the steam humidification. The results show that humidification could slow down the increase of pressure drop during filtration and improve the efficiency of process.     

从工业角度透视纤维介质在气溶胶过滤上的应用(英文)

Filtration of aerosol particles using non-woven fibrous media is a common practice for air cleaning. It has found wide applications in industries and our daily lives. This paper overviews some of these applications and provides an industrial perspective. It starts from discussing aerosol filtration theory, followed by a brief review on the advancement of filtration media. After that, filtration applications in respiratory protection, dust collection, and engine in-take air cleaning are elaborated. These are the areas that the author sees as the typical needed ones in China’s fast pace economical development endeavor, where air filtration enables the protection of human health, environment and equipment for sustainability.     

烧结复合式烧结金属丝网颗粒移动床过滤器研究

A new gas clean-up process called “integrated sintered metal screen moving granular bed“ (ISMSMGB) for the integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) and pressured fluidized bed combustion (PFBC) was developed on the basis of a sintered metal candle filter and a cross-flow moving granular bed filter. This is a combination of the surface and deep bed filtering processes. A set of facilities was established and a series of cold model tests were carried out. The dust removal efficiency and the pressure drop of the filter were measured and analyzed. The results show that this process features the advantages of the moving bed for high capacity as well as high inlet dust load and the surface filter for high efficiency. Meanwhile, the granules moving downward cleans the cake on the screen surface, so that the system is operated at steady state.     

循环过程中陶瓷滤材内粉尘沉积规律实验研究

The penetration and deposit of particles within the medium is thought to be one reason that the residual pressure drop of the rigid ceramic filter increase with cycle number. In this study, the change in the microstructure of a single layer ceramic filter candle during filtration-cleaning cycle was observed by scanning electron microscope (SEM) and the resistance property of the filter was monitored accordingly. The experimental results show that there exists a serious dust deposit within the filter medium, especially at the surface region. This should be responsible for the decrease of the filter permeability. The deposit law of dust in the filter medium during filtration-cleaning cycle was then studied by measuring the deposit depth, the deposit amount, the particles distribution within the medium, the size distribution of deposited particles, and so on. Particles migration and fine particles penetration were found to be the main reasons, for which dust deposit within the filter medium became aggravated with cycle number. Based on a differential form of Ergun equation, an expression for the pressure drop of a used ceramic filter was developed with a good agreement with experimental results. Then, the effect of dust deposit on the residual pressure drop was studied at the different face velocities and dust sizes. It was found that face velocity and dust size significantly influence dust deposit within filter medium, and then the operation performance of the filter.     

恒压过滤介质阻力分析

A mathematical model for constant pressure filtration is established. The distribution of hydraulic pressure within the cake and the medium resistance are measured. The medium resistance Rm is calculated from the suppositional filtration time Ore. It is demonstrated that Rm is nearly a constant for a given filter cloth.     

CROSS-FLOW FILTRATION OF FUNGAL SUSPENSION WITH REVERSED-FLOW CLEANING

The separation of fungal suspension Trichoderma reesei was studied by using cross-flow filtration(CFF)with re-versed-flow cleaning(RFC)technique.The advantage of this technique is demonstrated in comparison with other filtra-tion techniques.The filtration rate is influenced by different frequencies of RFC.For optimum combination of CFF andRFC,both experimental and theoretical considerations are necessary and are discussed.An expression has been derivedfor the optimum filtration time needed to maximize the flux for a given RFC period assuming that the filtration stage canbe approximated by Ruth’s equation.The practical usefulness of this calculation is demonstrated on a batch thickening op-eration.     

多管陶瓷过滤器内耦合效应数值模拟

The Reynolds stress transport model and the Eulerian two-fluid model provided by the FLUENT code were applied to evaluate the gas-particle two-phase flow in the ceramic filter vessel. The ceramic filter vessel contains six candle filters, which are arranged in the form of equilateral hexagon. The variation of the areal density of the filter cake during the filtration and the back-pulse process were analyzed. The coupling effect between filters, gas and solid, filtration and pulse cleaning process were investigated, respectively. The numerical results show a good approach to predict the particle distribution in the vessel and the particle deposition on the filter element. This study provides the base for the intensive study on the analysis of the gas-particle flow in the filter vessel.     

用活性炭吸附强化超滤过程脱除废水中染料的研究(英文)

In this study, orange G dye was efficiently removed from aqueous solution by ultrafiltration (UF) mem-brane separation enhanced with activated carbon adsorption. The powdered activated carbon (PAC) was deposited onto the UF membrane surface, forming an intact filter cake. The enhanced UF process simultaneously exploited the high water permeation flux of porous membrane and the high adsorption ability of PAC toward dye molecules. The influencing factors on the dye removal were investigated. The results indicated that with sufficient PAC incor-poration, the formation of intact PAC filtration cake led to nearly complete rejection for dye solution under opti-mized dye concentration and operation pressure, without large sacrificing the permeation flux of the filtration process. Typically, the dye rejection ratio increased from 43.6% for single UF without adsorption to nearly 100% for the en-hanced UF process, achieving long time continuous treatment with water permeation flux of 47 L·m 2·h 1. The pre-sent study demonstrated that adsorption enhanced UF may be a feasible method for the dye wastewater treatment.     

混凝耦合多孔陶瓷膜净化河水简

Membrane filtration technology combined with coagulation is widely used to purify river water. In this study, micro filtration （MF） and ultrafiltration （UF） ceramic membranes were combined with coagulation to treat local river water located at Xinghua, Jiangsu province, China. The operation parameters, fouling mechanism and pilot-scale tests were investigated. The results show that the pore size of membrane has small effect on the pseudo-steady flux for dead-end filtration, and the increase of flux in MF process is more than that in UF process for cross-flow filtration with the same increase of cross-flow velocity. The membrane pore size has little influence on the water quality. The analysis on membrane fouling mechanism shows that the cake filtrationhas significant in fluence on the pseudo-steady flux and water quality for the membrane with pore size of 50, 200 and 500 nm. For the membrane with pore size of 200 nm and backwashing employed in our pilot study, a constant flux of 150 L-m^-2-h^-1 was reached during stable operation, with the removal efficiency of turbidity, total organic carbon （TOC） and UV254 higher than 99%, 45% and 48%, respectively. The study demonstrates that coagulation-porous ceramic membrane hybrid process is a reliable method for river water purification.     

硅藻土-木桨纤维为助滤剂强化过滤过程的研究(英文)

In this paper, a study to enhance the filtration for solid/liquid materials difficult to be filtered, such as highly viscous, highly compactible or gel like materials, is presented. Filter aids diatomaceous earth and wood pulp cellulose are used to enhance the filtration by improving filter cake structure and properties in the filtration of a biological health product and a highly viscous chemical fiber polymer melt product. The property of solid/liquid systems, filtration at different flow rates, specific cake resistance, cake wetness, filtration rate, filtrate turbidity for filter aid selection and evaluation, and operation optimization are investigated. The results are successfully applied to industrial process, and can be used as a reference for similar filtration applications.     

Zur Frage der optimalen Reinigungsbedingungen für Schlauchfilter mit DruckstossabreinigungInvestigations on optimal cleaning conditions for bag filters with pulse jet cleaning

Pressure drop, residual dust quantity, cleaning intensity as well as the time-dependent outlet dust concentration have been measured in a pulse-jetIn this paper, examples of the measuring results are given and correlations between the cleaning intensity and the outlet dust concentration are discusIt is shown that an optimum cleaning pressure exists at which the dust cake was completely removed. At this cleaning pressure the outlet dust concentra     

清灰效率对炷状陶瓷过滤器的影响

研究了脉冲清灰效率对过滤过程的影响。假定粉尘结构在过滤和清灰中不变的条件下 ,对清灰效率的影响进行了分析。发现在一定的启动压降下 ,存在着一个最佳的清灰效率 ,即在 90 %～ 95 %之间。由于在运行的前几个循环中 ,粉尘压降、残留粉尘压降以及粉尘厚度、残留粉尘厚度存在较大的变化 ,因而在开始的几个循环中 ,不宜采用相同的清灰时间间隔     

陶瓷过滤器滤管外瞬态流场

在由 3根陶瓷滤管组成的实验装置上 ,利用热线风速仪对脉冲反吹时滤管外瞬态流场进行了测定 ,分析了喷吹压力和脉冲宽度对滤管外流场的影响。结果表明 ,滤管外流场存在严重的气体回流区 ,回流速度峰值数倍于正常过滤气速。随着离开滤管壁面距离的增加 ,喷吹速度和回流速度逐渐减小 .随着喷吹压力的增加 ,反吹速度和回流速度也显著增加 .     

An approximate theory for stresses in dust cake of ceramic candle filters

A simplified theory is developed that yields the approximate stresses within a dust cake on the outer surface of ceramic candle filter and gives the critical factors which ensure complete detachment of cake. The radial and tangential stresses in cake during filtration have been derived by consideration of active state of stress in the dust cake. Back pulses of cleaning gas expand dust cake on the condition, that their power is just adequate to properties of cake, such as angle of internal friction and cohesion. Expansion of the dust cake induces tension cracks and disintegration of the cake. Back pulses of higher values hamper expansion of cake and cause “patchy” cleaning.     

Modelling pressure drop evolution on high temperature filters

A high temperature high pressure filtration facility is available at the ETSI-University of Seville, which allows testing different elements and cleaning reverse-flow pulse strategies using real coal ash under diverse operating conditions. The facility is capable of processing 850 Nm³/h gas flow rate at maximum temperature and pressure of 550 °C and 7.5 barg respectively. An extensive testing campaigns have been carried out with the aim of evaluating alternatives for hot gas filtration technologies and optimising the performance of commercial filtering elements.In this framework, this paper focuses on a semi-empirical model developed for predicting the rise of the pressure drop with time. The model is based on theoretical considerations and the application of the experimental data generated using four filtering elements (PTFE and 3MFB700 bag filters, DSN1020 and CS1150 rigid filters). Nonlinear regression has been used to estimate and validate the coefficient of the model (specific dust cake coefficient) with arbitraries relations between independent and dependent parameters, by using iterative estimation algorithms. This is a valuable tool to select the best filtration options and optimum cleaning strategies in high temperature applications. Investigations about the factors affecting the specific dust cake resistance coefficient (filtration velocity, temperature, filter medium) are also presented.     

Influence of pulsing-air injection distance on pressure drop in a coke dust bagfilter

The effect of the pulsing-air injection distance between the nozzle and venturi on total pressure drop was investigated in a pilot-scale pulse-jet bagfilter for coke dust of a steel mill factory. Theoretical and empirical models were used to predict the pressure drop. The empirical model contains two parameters—dust cake resistance and exponent of areal mass density—to be estimated by experiment. The optimum injection distance for minimizing the total pressure drop was evaluated by 64 experimental data at a fixed filtration velocity and pulse pressure in the practical ranges of dust concentration and pulse interval time. The dust cake resistance shows a minimum value at the optimum injection distance. The empirical model is in good agreement with the experimental data, showing a correlation coefficient of 0.952.     

A model analysis on the reasons for unstable operation of jet-pulsed filters

Various physically based models are available to describe an uneven distribution of the filter cake on the filter area of jet-pulsed bag filters. Such an uneven distribution is intrinsically present, when only segments of the filter are cleaned at a time but not the entire filter. Moreover, also patchy cleaning causes an uneven filter cake loading, since only a fraction of a filter cake is removed by a jet pulse while the other fraction remains basically intact on the filter cloth. Unstable filter operation can be defined by a continuous or periodic reduction of the filtration time per cleaning pulse. The operation of a jet-pulsed filter was mathematically simulated and, by systematically altering model parameters, unstable operation was obtained. Three situations were investigated: a continuous increase of the filter cake resistance parameter, a continuous increase of the filter cloth resistance parameter, and a particular cake detachment function where, after a filter cake survived some filter cycles, it can hardly be removed. The transient pressure difference simulation results reveal characteristic patterns: Taking normal stable operation as a reference, an increase of the filter cake resistance leads to shorter filtration and somewhat longer cleaning intervals (i.e., more cleaning pulses). An increase of the filter cloth resistance causes longer filtration and also considerably more cleaning pulses. Deficient filter cleaning gives shorter filtration periods and extremely long cleaning intervals. A comparison between model simulations and pilot plant results shows that there, the experimentally observed unstable operation can most likely be attributed to problems with cake detachment. Hence appropriate measures for avoiding unstable operation were successfully introduced.     

Distributions of age, thickness and gas velocity in the cake of jet pulsed filters—application and validation of a generations filter model

Different imperfections are observed with jet pulsed filters. They manifest themselves most obviously in the curve of the pressure drop versus time. A convex pressure drop curve indicates cake compaction. But jet pulsed filters frequently show a concave rise of the pressure drop curve. This phenomenon is due to a strongly nonuniform cake area load on the filter and it is generally attributed to incomplete cake removal. Incomplete cake removal takes place when only a fraction of the total filter area is cleaned at the end of a filter cycle or when patchy cleaning prevails. Patchy cleaning means that a jet pulse removes the entire filter cake of only a fraction of the exposed filter area except for a thin adhesive dust layer.In this paper a filter model is proposed in which the different classes of cake thickness are understood to result from different cake generations. A cake becomes one generation older when it survives the jet pulse cleaning at the end of a filtration cycle, although the area that is occupied by the cake on the filter medium is diminished by the jet pulse.This generations filter model can be used to find the distributions of age, thickness and gas velocities in the cake from steady-state operational data. The steady-state, periodic model provides a complete basis for the simulation of heterogeneous gas/solid reactions in the cake of jet pulsed filters.In the model intermediate cake build up during the cleaning procedure is considered. There redeposition of removed filter cake also takes place, and its extent is estimated. The model can also serve to determine from macroscopic process data, if the cleaning system of a filter installation operates in the undesirable mode of patchy cleaning.Experiments from a pilot plant for dry flue gas cleaning are presented and the generations filter model is validated with the experimental data.     

磁絮凝膜过滤工艺中附加磁场强化清洗

基于磁强化絮凝膜过滤(MEFMF)工艺中磁絮体和含磁滤饼层的特性,设计了在线(on-line)和离线(off-line)磁强化清洗(MEC)工艺.在磁场和曝气剪切的协同作用下,含磁滤饼层脱离膜纤维表面,膜通量恢复率较常规物理清洗(RC)明显提高.在离线磁强化清洗时,设计反洗装置中心的磁感应强度为6 mT,曝气强度为500 L·m^-2·min^-1,控制清洗时间为5 min,维持反洗压力0.04 MPa,可达到最佳的膜清洗效果,通量恢复率达97%以上.在外加磁场强化清洗过程中,滤饼层中的磁种发生磁化作用,滤饼层表现出微弱的宏观磁性,在磁场的作用下向磁极运动,使得膜通量恢复率明显提高.此外,在MEFMF工艺中采用间歇磁强化清洗,可以更加有效地去除引起不可逆膜污染的胶体和有机物,降低膜污染速率,减缓膜污染.     

烛状陶瓷过滤器的清灰分析

研究了脉冲清灰效率对过滤过程的影响。假定粉尘结构在过滤和清灰中不变的条件下,对清灰效率的影响进行了分析。发现,在一定的启动压降下,有一个最佳的清灰效率,在90%～95%之间。由于在运行的前几个循环中,粉尘压降、残留粉尘压降以及粉尘厚度、残留粉尘厚度存在较大的变化,因而在开始的几个循环中,不宜采用相同的清灰时间间隔。