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filter cake

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filter cake [′fil·tər ‚kāk]
(engineering)
(materials)
A concentrated solid or semisolid material that is separated from a liquid and remains on the filter after pressure filtration.


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Further, three main types of filtration occur with a filter--sieving or screening, filter cake, and internal or deep bed.
2]/g; and isolating the pigment by a process comprised of preparing an aqueous slurry of the ground pigment; filtering the slurry resulting in a filter cake containing particles of transparent pigment; and either flushing the pigment from the filter cake; or drying the filter cake optionally followed by grinding.
Tetratex membrane filter media vastly improves the performance of traditional filter fabrics which rely on the formation of a surface filter cake to capture fine dust particles, which can permit the migration of dust through the media leading to high emission values and raised pressure drop.
 
 
 
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