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Sedimentation Calculations in Food Engineering

The document presents a problem set focused on sedimentation in food engineering, featuring calculations for settling velocities of various particles in different fluids and conditions. It includes scenarios involving wheat and stones, dust particles, sand in salt solution, oil droplets, coffee extract particles, quartz particles, glass spheres, and oil drops. Each problem requires the application of principles of fluid mechanics and sedimentation to determine the settling velocities and related parameters.

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Sedimentation Calculations in Food Engineering

The document presents a problem set focused on sedimentation in food engineering, featuring calculations for settling velocities of various particles in different fluids and conditions. It includes scenarios involving wheat and stones, dust particles, sand in salt solution, oil droplets, coffee extract particles, quartz particles, glass spheres, and oil drops. Each problem requires the application of principles of fluid mechanics and sedimentation to determine the settling velocities and related parameters.

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Food Engineering Unit Operations I

PROBLEM SET 4 – SEDIMENTATION

1. We wanted to separate wheat (p = 1100 kg/m3) from stones of the same size (p = 1200
kg/m3) by differential settling in a fluid.
a) If the separation were carried out in air (air = negligible),
b) If the separation were carried out in water ( = 1000 kg/m3),
calculate the ratio of the settling velocities.

2. Calculate the settling velocity of dust particles of 60 m diameter in air at 21°C and 100
kPa pressure. Assume that the particles are spherical and of density 1280 kg/m3.

3. Calculate the settling velocity of sand particles 0.2 mm in diameter having a density of
2469 kg/m3 in 22% salt solution at 20°C. Density of 22% salt solution at 20°C is 1240
kg/m3 and the viscosity is 2.7 x 10-3 Ns/m2.

4. Oil droplets having a diameter of 20 m are to be settled from air at an air temperature of
37.8 °C at 101.3 kPa pressure. The density of the oil is 900 kg/m3. Calculate the terminal
settling velocity of the drops?

5. Solid spherical particles of coffee extract from a dryer having a diameter of 400 m are
falling through air at temperature of 422 K and pressure 101.31 kPa. The density of the
particles is 1030 kg/m3. Calculate the terminal settling velocity and the distance of fall in
5 s.

6. Solid quartz particles having a diameter of 100 m are settling from water at 294.3 K. The
density of the spherical particles is 2650 kg/m3. Calculate the terminal settling velocity of
these particles.

7. Calculate the terminal settling velocity of a glass sphere 0.080 mm in diameter having a
density of 2469 kg/m3 in air at 300 K and 101.32 kPa. Also calculate the diameter of a
sphalerite sphere having a density of 4000 kg/m3 with the same terminal velocity.

8. Drops of oil 15 m in diameter are to be settled from air. The specific gravity of the oil is
0.90 and the air is at 21°C and 1 atm. A settling time of 1 minute is available. How high
should the chamber be to allow settling of these particles?

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