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Some concept of Materials and Heat Balance in Metallurgical Processes are Gaseous Fuel, Gassification Material, Heat Content Data, Furnace, Imperial Smelting Process, Imperial Smelting Process. Main points of this lecture are: Specific Gravity, Slurry, Specific Gravity, Quiz Question, Specific Gravity, Slurry Stream, Quartz, Calculate Density, Mass Flow, Flow Rate
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Lecture 3: Exercise on measurement of quantities. Content Exercise (i) Specific gravity of slurry Exercise (ii) % solids in slurry Exercise (iii)Mixing of slurry streams Exercise (iv)Slurry making Exercise (v)Units Exercise (vi)Quiz question Exercise – (I) specific gravity of slurry Calculate specific gravity of slurry which contains 65% lime. The specific gravity of lime is 2600 kg/m^3. Also calculate volume of slurry. Substituting the values in equation 1of lecture 2 65 ൌ ଵൈଶሺౣିౣ ሺଶିଵሻ^ ଵሻ
By solving ρ (^) ୫ ൌ specific gravity of slurry ൌ 1 (^667) ୫୩య Volume of slurry in percent ൌ 65 ൈ ଵଶ ൌ 41.66%
% solid ሺ%xሻ ൌ ଵൈౣ ౩ሺಙ౩షభబబబሻ^ ሺౣି^ ଵ^ ሻ
Exercise – (II): % solids in slurry A slurry stream containing quartz is diverted into a 1 liter can. Time taken to fill is 8 seconds. The density by weight of (^) andthe slurry(b) mass and flow quartz rate is quartz 1400 kg/m within^3 and slurry. 2600 kg/m^3 respectively. Calculate (a) percent solids
Substituting the values in equation 1 of lecture 2
Equation 3 of lecture 2 Mሺkg/hrሻ ൌ Fሺ^ ౩^ ሺౣି (^) ౩ି ଵ^ ଵ ሻ^ ሻ
F ൌ ଷ଼ mଷ^ ⁄hr M ൌ ଷ଼
Mଵ ൌ 1364 kg mଷ^ and
=289kg/hr. If the time to fill the can is 7s,rest everything remains the same, calculate mass flow rate of quartz in slurry. Answer =330 kg/hr Exercise (III) Mixing of slurry streams Two slurry streams enter a pump. One stream has flow rate of 5m^3 /hr and contains 40% solids by weight. 3000kg mOther‐ (^3) in bothstream slurry has streams.3.4 m^3 /hr Calculate flow rate tonnage and contains of any 55% solids solids pumped/hr. by weight. Density of solid is
To solve the problem, use the following steps.
ଵ ൌ 2728 and Mଶ ൌ 2953
Calculate how many kg of magnetite must be added to 100kg water to make up a slurry with specific ୫ Specific gravity of Feଷ O4 ൌ 5.2g/cmଷ Wt % solid =ଵൈହ.ଶ ሺଵ.ସିଵሻଵ.ସൈሺହ.ଶିଵሻ
Exercise (IV) Slurry making
gravity ሺρ ሻ ൌ 1.4. g/cmଷ.
ൌ ଵൈହ.ଶൈ.ସଵ.ସൈସ.ଶ ൌ 35.4 %. Wt % water =100 – 35.4=64.6 %
=155kg Mass of magnetite =155‐ 100 =55kg