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Title: Modeling of the Effects of Pleat Packing Density and Cartridge Geometry on the Performance of Pleated Membrane Filters
Pleated membrane filters are widely used to remove undesired impurities from a fluid in many applications. A filter membrane is sandwiched between porous support layers and then pleated and packed into an annular cylindrical cartridge with a central hollow duct for outflow. Although this arrangement offers a high surface filtration area to volume ratio, the filter performance is not as efficient as those of equivalent flat filters. In this paper, we use asymptotic methods to simplify the flow throughout the cartridge to systematically investigate how the number of pleats or pleat packing density affects the performance of the pleated membrane filters. The model is used to determine an optimal number of pleats in order to achieve a particular optimum filtration performance. Our findings show that only the “just right”—neither too few nor too many—number of pleats gives optimum performance in a pleated filter cartridge.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2108161
PAR ID:
10330500
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
Fluids
Volume:
6
Issue:
6
ISSN:
2311-5521
Page Range / eLocation ID:
209
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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