Abstract
Abstract An experimental study of the instantaneous filtrate flow rate
is in this work applying a special new technics. The preliminary
experiments showed that independently from the processed material and
the (steady) filling flow rate the filtrate flow rate proved to be
constant. The experimental method was filling the empty basket,
revolving with the operational speed. The experimental results opened a
new field of investigations that is the application of the filling flow
rate as an independent variable. The filtrate flow rate vs. filling flow
rate diagrams exhibit characteristic shapes similar to each other: They
have a special breakpoint. The position of this breakpoint divides two
ranges of the operational field: filter surface under-loaded and
over-loaded by the rate of filling, respectively. The loading of the
filter surface means the specific filling flow rate relative to the
filter area of the machine.