Monday, 31 October 2005 - 8:42 AM
30b
Modeling Pilot-Scale Cross-Flow Filtration of Simulated Nuclear Waste
Michael Poirier1, Samuel D. Fink
1, Ralph Haggard
2, Vince Van brunt
2, and Travis Deal
2. (1) Savannah River National Laboratory, Savannah River Site, Aiken, SC 29808, (2) University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC xxxxx
The authors conducted pilot-scale tests with simulated nuclear waste and a sintered stainless steel cross-flow filter to evaluate the impact of operating parameters on performance. The filter unit contained seven tubes each 10 feet long, 5/8 inches inner diameter, and 0.5 micron pore size. The demonstration used a batch size of 300 gallons. The axial velocity varied from 12 – 26 ft/s, the transmembrane pressure from 15 – 65 psi, and the insoluble solids concentration from 0.03 – 4.5 wt % to determine their impact on filter flux. The authors used statistical techniques to determine how well the data fit classical filtration models, and to develop a model to fit this data. The steady state model included resistance terms for the filter, the cake, and the flow through a porous bed.
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