
Solid-Liquid Filtration
A User's Guide to Minimizing Cost and Environmental Impact, Maximizing Quality and Productivity
Trevor Sparks(Author)
Butterworth-Heinemann (Publisher)
Published on 28. November 2011
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-08-097114-8 (ISBN)
Description
Exploring the success factors that combine to deliver this performance. Finding ways to get more from your processes, with examples, case studies and scenarios.
Solid-Liquid Filtration is a crucial step in the production of virtually everything in our daily lives, from metals, plastics and pigments through to foods (and crockery) and medicines. Using a practical and applied approach, Trevor Sparks has created a guide that chemical and process engineers can use to help them:
Understand how filtration processes affect production processes, production costs, product quality, environmental impact and productivity
Optimise process development and project execution, with real examples and supporting software forms and tools
Develop reporting tools to monitor processes, and find ways to get more from processes
This book's focus is helping process engineers understand their filtration processes better. Its accessible approach and style make it a valuable resource for anyone working in this sector, regardless of prior knowledge or experience.
Solid-Liquid Filtration is a crucial step in the production of virtually everything in our daily lives, from metals, plastics and pigments through to foods (and crockery) and medicines. Using a practical and applied approach, Trevor Sparks has created a guide that chemical and process engineers can use to help them:
Understand how filtration processes affect production processes, production costs, product quality, environmental impact and productivity
Optimise process development and project execution, with real examples and supporting software forms and tools
Develop reporting tools to monitor processes, and find ways to get more from processes
This book's focus is helping process engineers understand their filtration processes better. Its accessible approach and style make it a valuable resource for anyone working in this sector, regardless of prior knowledge or experience.
Reviews / Votes
"An Irish-based consultant to both end users and technology providers of filtration, Sparks offers a guide to engineers and technicians in processing plants and other operations that separate solids and liquids using filters. His topics include the physical phenomena of solid-liquid filtration, competitiveness in processing, filter design, process testing, and getting the most from filtration processes." --Reference and Research Book News, October 2012More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Elsevier Science & Technology
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Chemical and process engineers; filtration specialists; consultants
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
430 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-08-097114-8 (9780080971148)
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Trevor Sparks
Solid-Liquid Filtration
A User's Guide to Minimizing Cost & Environmental Impact, Maximizing Quality & Productivity
E-Book
05/2014
Butterworth-Heinemann
€74.95
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Person
Trevor Sparks PhD., founder of Filter-Ability Ltd, Ireland, is a consultant within the filtration industry, working for end-users and technology-providers. He has worked in the process industries for 20 years and has focussed on filtration for the last 15 of these. He has previously worked for BHR Group Limited, Larox Oyj (now a part of Outotec), Finland, and as a Marie-Curie Research Fellow at UC RUSAL in Ireland. He is a Member of the Council of the Filtration Society.
Content
1 Introduction
Part I: Background
2 History of Filtration
3 Physical phenonmena
Part II: Competitive Advantage
4 Competitiveness in processing
5 The outcomes of filtration process
Part 3: Filtration Process Success Factors
6 Slurry Filterability
7 Filter Design
8 Filter Installation
9 Filter Cloth
10 Filter Maintenance
11 Filter Operation
Part 4: Creating and Sustaining a competitive advantage
12 Process Testing
13 Getting the most from your ltration processes
Part I: Background
2 History of Filtration
3 Physical phenonmena
Part II: Competitive Advantage
4 Competitiveness in processing
5 The outcomes of filtration process
Part 3: Filtration Process Success Factors
6 Slurry Filterability
7 Filter Design
8 Filter Installation
9 Filter Cloth
10 Filter Maintenance
11 Filter Operation
Part 4: Creating and Sustaining a competitive advantage
12 Process Testing
13 Getting the most from your ltration processes