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Particulate Hot Gas Stream Cleanup Technical Issues.
Quarterly Report January 1 – March 31, 1998.

Southern Research Institute

In this pdf format, this document has 31 pages and is 2.48 MB.

Table of Contents

Executive Summary

1

Introduction

2

Objectives

3

Task 1 Assessment of Ash Characteristics

4

Laboratory Measurement Techniques

4

Reproducibility

5

Non-Ideal Effects – Gas Flow Through a Dust Cake with Non-Uniform Porosity

6

Permeability as a Function of Gas Pressure

9

Permeability as a Function of Temperature

10

Site Visit to the PSDF

12

Appearance to Filter Cakes

13

Laboratory Analyses of PSDF Ashes

20

Inertial Effects in the Westinghouse FL0301 Filter Vessel

21

Comparison of Specific Gas-Flow Resistance and K2

24

Task 2 Filter Material Characterization

27

Future Work

29