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11.7. APPLICATIONS AND PERFORMANCE OF EQUIPMENT

TABLE 11.12. Sizes of Commercial Continuous Vacuum Filters
(a) Horizontal Belt Filters"

Series Ft? Range No. Vac. Pans
2600 10-45
4600 45-200
6900 150-700
9600 130-500
13,600 600-1 200

(Eimco).

(b) Rotary Drum, Disk, and Horizontal Filters
Rotary Drum Component Filtersb
Filter Surface Area (sqft)
DrumC
Diam
(ft) Length (ft)
4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24
6 76 113 151 189 226
a 200 250 300 350 400
10 310 372 434 496 558 620
12 456 532 608 684 760 836 912

Disk Component Filtersd
Disk diam (ft)" 6 7 8 9 1
Number of disks
Min. 2 3 4 5 6 7
Max. 8 9 10 11 12 13
Filtering area per disk (sqft) 47 67 90 117 147 180
area
Horizontal Filters
Dia(ft)* 6 8 10 13 15 16 17 18 19 20 22 24
Area (sqft)
Nom 28 50 78 133 177 201 227 254 283 314 380 452
Liquid Eff 25 45 65 120 165 191 217 244 273 304 372 444
in pan
a Filtrate 10-1600 Ib/(hr)(sqft).
Filtrate bAdaptable to knife, wire, string, belt, or roll discharge.
"All-plastic construction filters also available in 3 and 4 R drum dia,
providing filter areas of 9 to 100 sqft.
All disks are composed of 10 sectors. Disk spacing is 16 in.
"The American filter, a similar disk filter, also available in 4ft
diamfeter, with 20 sqft disk.
Also available in 3, 4, and 11.5ft diameter.
(Dorr-Oliver Inc.).