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A statistical design of parametric study of pressure filtration for fine coal dewatering is presented. The effects of five major parameters of the dewatering, i.e. applied pressure, filtration time, cake thickness, solids concentration and slurry pH, on cake moisture reduction and air consumption were investigated. The study was conducted starting with two level factorial experiments to identify the most significant parameters, and concluding with response surface methodologies to establish an optimum operating condition for the dewatering of fine coal. It was observed that applied pressure, cake thickness and filtration time were identified to be the key operating variables for reduction of filter cake moisture as well as air consumption. With the key parameters, an optimum condition for the dewatering was determined to be an applied pressure of 93 psi with a cake thickness of 2.5 cm and a filtration time of 4.8 minutes for the laboratory filtration system. At these optimum conditions the filter cake containing about 22 percent moisture by weight and consuming air by 4.1 m3/(m2·min·kg) on dry solid basis was obtained.
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Sung, DJ., Parekh, B.K. Statistical evaluation of hyperbaric filtration for fine coal dewatering. Korean J. Chem. Eng. 13, 304–309 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02705954
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02705954