Filtration in hydrophobic media: 1. Evidence of molecular selection by crossflow filtration of butter oil

The oils and fats industry needs well-identified fractions with well-defined physical properties for its final formulated products. In view of future applications, a triglyceride partition phenomenon of butter oil on a hydrophobic membrane is investigated by crossflow filtration. Triglycerides are separated into four groups according to their molecular weight and unsaturation index, leading to behavior that can be interpreted in terms of consistent stereochemical parameters.     

次毫米过滤组件分区高含量污泥试验研究

采用次毫米过滤(SMF)组件实现高含量污泥(MLSS)分区(A区和B区),为膜生物反应器(B区)的稳定高效运行提供适宜的污泥质量浓度(5.0～10.0 g.L-1)。研究了回流体积比≥2.0条件下SMF组件(孔径0.47 mm)分离高含量污泥的运行特征及分区效果,对比分析了两区微生物实测与理论含量的差异,并考察了SMF组件耦合A区对营养物的去除效果。结果表明,在分离高含量污泥时,目标B区的污泥的质量浓度为2.0～10.0 g.L-1,对膜生物反应器是适用的;对应A区的污泥的质量浓度在15.5～33.5 g.L-1。SMF组件滤出液MLSS的质量浓度在1.4～4.2g.L-1,平均通量可达192 L.m-.2h-1。此外,SMF组件耦合A区对COD的去除率在82%以上。     

Efficiency of wood cellulose filtration

木浆纤维素作为助滤剂应用广泛,其过滤性能亟待研究。不同的过滤条件对木浆纤维素滤饼层的过滤性能会有很大影响。本文通过单因素法考察了过滤压力对滤饼层截留精度和平均滤速的影响,并通过正交实验法考察了木浆悬浮液黏度、木浆浓度、木浆添加量、悬浮液含水对滤饼层截留精度和平均滤速的影响。实验表明木浆纤维素属于中等可压缩性物料,其过滤性能随过滤条件变化呈规律性变化。通过对实验结果的分析,确定了优化方案。研究结果为木浆纤维素过滤的小型工业试验提供参考。     

Measurements and evaluation of concentration distributions in filter cake formed in dead-end ultrafiltration of protein solutions

To clarify the internal structures of the filter cake formed on the membrane surface in protein ultrafiltration, a method has been developed for measuring the variations of protein concentration across the filter cake on the basis of the principle of inclined ultrafiltration, where the membrane was inclined and a large amount of filter cake was formed, and the results were compared with the calculations based on a compressible cake filtration model, which explicitly took the non-homogeneity and the compressibility of the filter cake into account. The experimental results obtained from ultrafiltration of bovine serum albumin (BSA) solutions under constant pressure conditions clearly demonstrated that the filter cake tended to have a much more compact structure at the membrane in comparison with a relatively loose condition at the surface. It was also found that the thickness of the filter cake formed on the membrane increased as the filtration progressed. Further, the effects of pH and the solute concentration in the feed solution on the structure of the filter cake have been examined experimentally. The measured concentration distributions accorded well with the calculated results based on a compressible cake filtration model. This study revealed that the dynamic deposition behaviors of the protein molecules in dead-end ultrafiltration could be accurately described by a compressible cake filtration model.     

Determination of solid fat content (SFC) of binary fat blends and use of these data to predict SFC of selected ternary fat blends containing low-erucic rapeseed oil

Several oils and fats often used for the industrial preparation of European shortenings were blended in binary systems. The equilibrium (after 48 h at 15°C) solid fat contents (SFC; determined by pulsed NMR spectroscopy) were measured and plotted against blend composition. SFC of the blends resulted from the SFC of each fat for the considered temperature as well as the type of interaction existing between those fats (namely, ideal behavior, monotectic interaction, eutectic interaction, and so on). The type of relationship fitted was dependent on the kind of interaction: Linear relationships were found for total compatibility between fats, and polynomial-type (order 2) relationships were found for fats exhibiting incompatibility. Some corresponding ternary oils and fats blends were also prepared and analyzed. Selected relationships (regression equations of the fitted curves) obtained for binary blends were combined in order to calculate the SFC of the corresponding ternary blends. Experimental values were generally close to predicted ones. The representation of SFC as a function of composition is interesting as it allows one to determine rapidly and easily the type of molecular interaction between two fats and also to determine equations that can be combined to calculate easily the SFC of corresponding ternary blends crystallized in the same way with a good accuracy. The texture (hardness) of several binary and ternary blends was also measured. The combination of the results obtained for SFC with the results obtained for the hardness of binary blends allows the prediction of the hardness of a corresponding ternary blend under the same conditions.     

Study of Protein Adsorption During Sterile Filtration of Protein Formulations by ILC

Protein adsorption is usually regarded as the main reason for filter fouling in sterile filtration of protein formulations. To achieve a better insight into this phenomenon, protein adsorption was studied during filtration of stabilized bovine serum albumin (BSA) and γ-globulin formulations through 0.2-µm microfilter membranes by inverse liquid chromatography (ILC). Adsorption processes can be studied with this method by measurement of breakthrough curves. The change of the concentration in the fluid phase is measured with high accuracy by an inline UV-detector.     

Effect of cake layer structure on colloidal fouling in reverse osmosis membranes

A series of reverse osmosis (RO) membrane filtration experiments was performed systematically in order to investigate the effects of various hydrodynamic and physicochemical operational parameters on a cake layer formation in colloidal and particulate suspensions. Bench-scale fouling experiments with a thin-film composite RO membrane were performed at various combinations of trans-membrane pressure (TMP), cross-flow velocity (CFV), particle size, pH, and ionic strength. In this study, silica particles with two different mean diameters of 0.1 and 3.0 μm were used as model colloids. Membrane filtration experiments with colloidal suspensions under various hydrodynamic operating conditions resulted that more significant permeate flux decline was observed as TMP increased and CFV decreased, which was attributed to the higher accumulative mass of particles on the membrane surface. Results of fouling experiments under various physicochemical operating conditions demonstrated that the rate of flux decline decreased significantly with an increase of the ionic strength as well as particle size, while the flux decline rate did not vary when solution pH changed. The experimentally measured cake layer thickness increased with a decrease in particle size and solution ionic strength. Furthermore, the model estimation of cake layer thickness by using a cake filtration theory based on the hydraulic resistance of membrane and cake layer was performed under various ionic strength conditions. The primary model parameters including accumulated mass and specific cake resistance were calculated from the cake layer resistance. This result indicated that the formation of cake layer could be closely related with solution water chemistry. The model estimated cake layer thickness values were in good agreement with the experimentally measured values.     

Ultrafiltration of Parvovirus

Abstract

Ultrafiltration is frequently used in the biotechnology industry for protein purification. The main applications of ultrafiltration are for protein concentration and buffer exchange. This paper focuses on ultrafiltration for purification of parvovirus. The feasibility of using ultrafiltration to remove contaminating host cell proteins from the virus particles has been investigated. Purification of virus particles and virus vectors for clinical applications of gene therapy and in the manufacture of viral vaccines is a major large‐scale separations problem. Today, parvoviruses, such as adeno associated virus, are being extensively investigated as gene therapy vectors. Consequently, development of robust purification operations will be essential.

Tangential flow ultrafiltration and high performance tangential flow filtration of Aedes Aegypti densonucleosis virus has been investigated using flat sheet membranes with a nominal molecular weight cut off of 100 and 300 kD. Virus particles were detected in the permeate of the 300 kD membrane for both modes of operation. In tangential flow filtration no virus particles were detected in the permeate from the 100 kD membrane. However, during high performance tangential flow filtration significant passage of virus particles through the membrane was observed. The results obtained here are in general agreement with results obtained in previous studies of high performance tangential flow filtration for protein purification. Optimization in the operating conditions of high performance tangential flow filtration may result in a highly selective unit operation for purification of virus particles and virus vectors.     

采用超临界技术制备高性能生物滤料的实验研究

采用超临界CO2萃取技术制备高性能的核桃壳滤料,考察了萃取温度、压力及时间对萃取效果的影响。实验结果表明,在萃取温度为45℃,萃取压力为35 MPa,萃取时间为2 h条件下,制备出的核桃壳滤料明显优于常规滤料,平均孔径2.62×10-7cm,比表面积高达9.30 m2/g,总孔容积6.1×10-3cm3/g,约为常规滤料的4倍。大大延长了滤料的运行周期和使用寿命,减少滤料的反冲洗次数,具有很好的节水和处理水的性能。实现了核桃壳的再生利用,达到了以废治废的目的,具有较高的经济效益和社会效益。     

A Simple Numerical Model of Pressure Drop Dynamics During the Filtration of Liquid Aerosols on Fibrous Filters

We present a new numerical model of filtration of liquid aerosols on fibrous filters. The main goal of the model is to describe the dependence of pressure drop on time during the nonstationary filtration process. The main difference between the current model and others present in the literature is that it contains very few parameters—in its minimal form only two—and still describes the results of experimental measurements with a very good accuracy. We also estimate the dependence of the parameters of the model on the process conditions (i.e., gas flow velocity and the geometrical parameters of the filter) which enable the use of the presented model to predict the filtration process evolution in any fibrous filters.     

几种常见液固过滤方法的能耗与物耗及改进方向

液固过滤过程中能耗与物耗相当可观,对我国节能减排任务的负面影响不可忽视.分析了四种常见的过滤方法(循环过滤、多级过滤、真空过滤和错流过滤)的高能耗与三种常见的过滤装置与方法(手动板框压滤机,分散的深层过滤器与助滤过滤)的高物耗的概况,并简单叙述了改造的大致方向.     

Conditioning for Municipal Sludge Dewatering. From Filtration Compression Cell Tests to Belt Press

Belt presses are commonly used to achieve sewage sludge dewatering. As this process essentially works by squeezing, it was interesting to better understand how the sludge conditioning affects cake expression. Experiments were carried out with conditioned municipal activated sludge on both a filtration compression cell (FCC) and a laboratory-scale belt press. Two cationic polyelectrolytes with a high charge density (80%) but different molecular weights were used. A significant impact of the conditioning was observed for FCC tests. The higher molecular weight polyelectrolyte led to much shorter filtration phases than with the medium molecular weight one. However, it produced wetter filter cakes. It also led to more elastic filter cakes but less susceptibility to creep. Higher final dryness was observed for sludge conditioned by the medium molecular weight polymer. Experiments carried out on the belt press device did not exhibit such impact. Consequently, the FCC test is not suitable to analyze the sludge dewatering by belt press, although it enables characterization of the expression phase. Indeed, some additional features involved in belt press, such as shear forces or progressive pressurization of the cake, are not characterized by classical FCC tests.     

Conditioning for Municipal Sludge Dewatering. From Filtration Compression Cell Tests to Belt Press

Belt presses are commonly used to achieve sewage sludge dewatering. As this process essentially works by squeezing, it was interesting to better understand how the sludge conditioning affects cake expression. Experiments were carried out with conditioned municipal activated sludge on both a filtration compression cell (FCC) and a laboratory-scale belt press. Two cationic polyelectrolytes with a high charge density (80%) but different molecular weights were used. A significant impact of the conditioning was observed for FCC tests. The higher molecular weight polyelectrolyte led to much shorter filtration phases than with the medium molecular weight one. However, it produced wetter filter cakes. It also led to more elastic filter cakes but less susceptibility to creep. Higher final dryness was observed for sludge conditioned by the medium molecular weight polymer. Experiments carried out on the belt press device did not exhibit such impact. Consequently, the FCC test is not suitable to analyze the sludge dewatering by belt press, although it enables characterization of the expression phase. Indeed, some additional features involved in belt press, such as shear forces or progressive pressurization of the cake, are not characterized by classical FCC tests.     

Filtration in coal liquefaction.: 2. Relation between digestion conditions and filtration rate

In systems for the liquefaction of coal by solvent extraction, removal of the undissolved solids from the liquefaction products is a fundemental part of the process. For separation of solids by filtration to be economically viable, it is essential to achieve high filtration rates. The influence of the extraction conditions, temperature, residence time and coal feed size, on the rate of filtration has been investigated. It has been shown that the rate of filtration is sensitive to the presence of a gel-like intermediate formed during the dissolution of the coal. The formation of this intermediate imposes limitations on the choice of digestion conditions, in particular the coal feed size. However, by inducing polymerization, the gel can be stabilized, thus allowing significantly improved filtration rates to be achieved.     

Filtration of zinc ions utilising pretreated Streptomyces rimosus biomass

The performance of biofiltration of zinc utilising pretreated Streptomyces rimosus was studied. Streptomyces rimosus biomass is able to bind zinc ions in batch mode. The biomass granules may be regenerated easily by using a biomass pretreatment which confers rigidity to biosolids, without decreasing the zinc uptake capacity, thus allowing collection of the biomass by filtration. Accordingly, biomass was pretreated with an anionic enzymatic tension active product (Extran AP41) and regeneration with a cleaning product (HCl) was successfully realised. It was shown that the optimum concentration of biomass and pressure range are found to be between 50 and 120 g dm^?3 and 0.5 and 1 × 10⁵ Pa, respectively. Complete regeneration was reached after three cycles under optimal experimental conditions when the biosorbent was saturated with synthetic ZnCl₂ solution. The filterability of biosolids was demonstrated. A combination of a batch reactor and a filtration process made it possible to increase the performance of the complete treatment process. The biosorption capacity of the biomass to bind Zn ions was slightly increased (from X = 14 mg g^?1 in batch mode to X = 16.1 mg g^?1 in a process combining batch reactor and pressure filtration) and the experimental contact time was considerably reduced. Integration of the filtration process produced a dewatering cake which considerably facilitated the regeneration operation. Copyright © 2003 Society of Chemical Industry     

不同滤料固定颗粒床过滤性能对比

在固定床冷态实验装置上研究了平均粒径和稳态过滤压降相近、颗粒形状和表面状况不同的两种滤料(陶瓷球和石英砂)的过滤性能. 结果表明,两种滤料过滤性能变化规律基本一致. 粉尘沉积量(?m)增加,过滤效率先增大后减小,过滤压降偏离稳态过滤压降程度(G)增大. ?m相同时,过滤效率和G均随过滤气速增大而减小,但过滤后期高气速下G与低气速下接近. 增大入口粉尘浓度,总体过滤效率无明显改变,粒径大于0.7 ?m的粉尘过滤效率提高,G更显著. 两种滤料难过滤粉尘粒径均为0.35~0.6 μm. 因颗粒形状和表面状况不同,两种滤料过滤性能存在差异,其它条件相同时,石英砂总体和分级过滤效率均高于陶瓷球,G也较大;增大入口粉尘浓度,石英砂过滤效率随粉尘沉积量变化程度相对较小.     

Assessment of recycled glass and expanded clay in a dual media configuration for drinking water treatment

The aim of this study was to investigate the overall performance of different types of recycled glass media with the optimized coagulation conditions for drinking water treatment. Tests were performed using a laboratory-based filtration unit, with dual filter media configurations and synthetic raw water. The glass media showed comparable performance for both filtration and backwashing and avoided the breakthrough of particles in the effluent. Moreover, the promising performance of the glass media was a slow head loss development which should grant longer filtration runs, less backwashing requirement and thus possible clean water and energy savings. Finally, the optimized combination of filtration media and coagulation operations can lead to the best filtration performance.     

Melt differential electrospinning of polyphenylene sulfide nanofibers for flue gas filtration

Polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) nanofibers have broad application prospects in high temperature dust removal, high temperature oil-water separation, radiation protection, and other fields. PPS nanofibers were prepared by melt differential electrospinning without any other additives, which ensures the excellent properties of PPS fibers. The effects of spinning parameters (spinning voltage, spinning distance, spinning temperature) on the morphology of PPS fibers were systematically studied, and the average diameter of PPS fibers with 1.28 μm was obtained under the optimum conditions (spinning distance of 6 mm, temperature of 310°C and spinning voltage of 35 kV). The effect of spinning voltage on the crystallinity and thermal stability of the fiber was analyzed. Finally, the filtration efficiencies of the commercial dust-proof filter bags and the obtained PPS fibers with the same weight were compared. It was demonstrated that filtration efficiency of the obtained PPS fibers with 186 g/cm² reached up to 99.95%. This study aims to provide a new idea for green industrial manufacturing and application of electrospinning PPS nanofibers.     

Crystallization and pressure filtration of anhydrous milk fat: Mixing effects

Melt crystallization of anhydrous milk fat and subsequent filtration of the slurry is a common process for obtaining milk fat fractions with different physical and chemical properties. The crystallization mechanism is very complex and little is known about how the crystallizer conditions and the crystal size distribution (CSD) affect the filtration process. The objective of this study was to characterize the fractionation process and determine which geometric parameters of the crystallizer affect the filtration step. Two scales of fractionation were studied, 0.6 L and 3.6 L, with crystallization at 28°C. The slurry was pressure-filtered after 24 h at 500 kPa in a 1-L chamber. Impeller diameters and speeds were varied for both scales. Photomicroscopy and spectrophotometry were used to characterize the crystallization process, and filtration rates were measured by weighing the amount of filtrate passing through the filter. Filtration resistance values, calculated using the constant pressure filtration equation, as well as photomicroscopy results indicated that the agglomerates and crystals that formed had different morphological characteristics for the different mixing and flow regimes in the crystallizer. Crystallization conditions that provide an optimal filtration time, a solid fraction with minimal liquid entrainment, and a CSD with an intermediate range of sizes (80–500 μm) having good packing properties for filtration were found.     

Granular filtration for airborne particles: Correlation between experiments and models

Granular filtration has been widely used for liquid filtration and hot gas filtration, but less is known for the filtration of airborne particles, especially the ultrafine ones, at the room conditions. A cylindrical packed bed was designed and tested for the filtration of particles in the range of about 10 nm to 15 µm in diameter at different configurations and kinetic conditions. Three sizes of uniform glass beads (2, 4, and 6 mm in diameter) were tested as the filtration media each at three media thicknesses (H = 2.5, 7.6, and 12.7 cm), and at two airflow rates (50 and 65 liters per minute). The filtration efficiencies were the lowest for particles between 0.1 and 1 µm in diameter. The particle filtration efficiency decreased with the increase in the granule size and the airflow rate, but a thicker bed corresponded to higher filtration efficiency. The experimental results showed much higher efficiency than existing models can predict, therefore, an empirical model using least square method is reported.