Aqueous suspension of china clay is to be concentrated using micro-filtration. Thicknessof…

Aqueous suspension of china clay is to be concentrated using micro-filtration. Thicknessof filtration membrane is 100 µm and it can be taken as ideal. The suspension feedcontains 8 vol.% of solid particles. Concentrated suspension (retentate) should contain15 vol.% of solid particles. The process is carried at 26°C and mean filtration pressure0.7 MPa. By an experiment with pure water at 14°C and filtration pressure 0.36 MPa fluxof filtrate was determined to be 416 L.m-2.h-1.Determine the area of a filtration module to filtrate 125 m3 of feed per day. What aregoing to be the flow rates of filtrate and concentrated suspension?Determine the concentration of the solid particles in filtrate when a non-idealmembrane with identical permeability and rejection factor R = 0.8 is used. What are goingto be the flow rates of filtrate and concentrated suspension and the filtration area?