Basket Centrifuge (Bottom Discharge)

Overview

	Size / Design Variable	Diameter
	Costing Variable (Built-in Model)	Diameter
	Costing Variable (User-Defined Model)	Filter Area in m2
	Emissions Port	Yes
	Hosts	Centrifugation in a Basket Centrifuge (Bottom Discharge) Procedure

A Basket Centrifuge with bottom discharge of the cake, is used to represent an equipment resource typically used to host a centrifugal filtration procedure for removing suspended solids from a slurry. The basic operation contained in this procedure is the Cloth filtration but additional operations can be included such as cake washing, transfer out, gas sweeping, purging/inerting etc. The procedure can be executed in a batch or continuous mode.

Basket Centrifuge (Bottom Discharge): Equipment Tab

See Basket Centrifuge

Sizing: Design Mode

In Calculate (Design Mode), the user specifies the Maximum Diameter and the system computes the Number of Units and the Diameter.

Sizing: Rating Mode

In User-Defined (Rating Mode), the user specifies the Number of Units and the Diameter.

The Height to Diameter ratio is always specified by the user and the Filter Area and Vessel Volume are always calculated by the system.

For more information on sizing of centrifuges, see Centrifugation: Modeling Calculations.

Costing

The purchase cost of the equipment is based on the diameter of the basket. By default it is calculated by the programs built-in model for a Basket Centrifuge with a bottom discharge.