Research Article
Performance Assessment of Sintered Metal Fiber Filters in Fluid Catalytic Cracking Unit
Table 4
Dust cake thicknesses estimated and pressure drop across the cake.
| Maximum pressure drop/kPa | Face velocity/m/min | Pressure drop across cake/kPa | Estimated cake thickness/mm | Estimated cake mass/g | Dust attached to filters/% |
| 3.5 | 1.15 | 2.06 | 1.75 | 68.74 | 65 | 1.5 | 1.56 | 1.32 | 54.23 | 72 | 2.2 | 0.37 | 0.43 | 28.69 | 78 |
| 4.2 | 1.15 | 2.79 | 3.04 | 97.65 | 68 | 1.5 | 2.28 | 2.37 | 85.22 | 78 | 2.2 | 1.12 | 1.21 | 60.37 | 81 |
| 5.0 | 1.15 | 3.52 | 4.15 | 129.05 | 71 | 1.5 | 3.04 | 3.32 | 110.24 | 82 | 2.2 | 1.83 | 1.43 | 78.56 | 86 |
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