Nutsche Filtration Procedure

Overview

A Nutsche Filtration Procedure can be created by selecting the following menu option:
Unit Procedures } Filtration } Nutsche Filtration

	Operating Mode	Batch/Semi-Continuous
	Host Equipment	Nutsche Filter
	Emissions Port (Vent)	Yes
	Special Input/Output Ports	Yes

This unit procedure can simulate filtration, cake, and drying in a Nutsche filter. Nutsche filters are commonly used in the synthetic pharmaceutical and specialty chemical industries to recover precipitated (or crystallized) products and remove suspended impurities from liquid solutions.

Special Inputs / Outputs

●      Cake Removal: the designated output port for the cake.

Operations

The following operation types are currently supported in the context of this unit procedure:

●      Filter, see Cloth Filtration

●      Dry Cake, see Cake Drying (in a Nutsche Filter)

●      Flush, see Flush

●      React (Stoichiometric), see Batch Stoichiometric Reaction (in a Nutsche Filter)

●      Wash Cake, see Cake Wash 

●      Charge, see Charge

●      CIP, see Clean-In-Place (CIP)

●      Cool, see Batch Cooling

●      Gas Sweep, see Gas Sweep

●      Heat, see Batch Heating

●      Hold, see Holding

●      Purge / Inert, see Purging / Inerting

●      SIP, see Steam-In-Place (SIP)

●      Transfer In, see Transfer In

●      Transfer Out, see Transfer Out

SEe Also

The following procedures offer a similar functionality:

●      Plate and Frame Filtration Procedure

●      Centrifugation in a Basket Centrifuge (Top Discharge) Procedure