A Nutsche Filtration Procedure can be created by selecting the following menu option:
Unit Procedures } Filtration } Nutsche Filtration
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Emissions Port (Vent) |
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Special Input/Output Ports |
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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.
● Cake Removal: the designated output port for the cake.
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
The following procedures offer a similar functionality:
● Plate and Frame Filtration Procedure
● Centrifugation in a Basket Centrifuge (Top Discharge) Procedure