Patent · US Expired

Cleaning of hollow fibre filters

US4921610A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMay 4, 1988
Grant dateMay 1, 1990
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Expiry dateMay 4, 2008

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB01D2321/18
  • WIPO fieldChemical engineering
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

In the cleaning and removal of solids from microporous hollow fibre filters by a series of chemical cleaning cycles, the optimum time and pattern of the cleaning cycles is calculated from the rate of diminution in filtrate flow rate and the time and filtrate lost in each cycle.

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