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- Title
Clogging modeling in pleated filters for gas filtration.
- Authors
Rebai, M.; Prat, M.; Meireles, M.; Schmitz, P.; BacIet, R.
- Abstract
A model of clogging of a pleated filter in gas filtration is presented. The model is obtained by combining a semi-analytical model of the flow in a pleated filter and an empirical model of clogging of the planar filter medium applied locally along the pleated filter channels. The model takes into account the formation of a filtration cake of variable thickness at the porous wall of the pleated filter entrance channels and the resulting evolution of the entrance channels aperture distribution during the filtration/clogging process. Based on the numerical predictions, two main clogging scenarios are identified and analyzed. The optimum pleat density, defined as the pleat density maximizing the filter capacity, is determined and shown to be greater than the pleat density minimizing the pressure drop for a clean filter. Predictions of the evolution of overall pressure drop across the pleated filter due to clogging are compared with experimental data.
- Subjects
GAS filtration; CAKE filters; CHEMICAL engineering; FIBROUS composites; POROUS materials; FILTERS &; filtration
- Publication
Chemical Engineering Research & Design: Transactions of the Institution of Chemical Engineers Part A, 2010, Vol 88, Issue 4, p476
- ISSN
0263-8762
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1016/j.cherd.2009.08.014