Dewatering Screw Pressing: Model Development and Sensitivity Analysis for Process Understanding
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Soledad Gutiérrez; Franco Mangone; Adrián Ferrari
- Source
- Subject
- Pressing
Set (abstract data type)
Mathematical model
Downstream (manufacturing)
business.industry
Computer science
Process (computing)
Model development
Sensitivity (control systems)
Process engineering
business
Dewatering
- Language
Dewatering screw presses (DSP) are a type of dewatering unit for sludge, which operate by compressing the material and letting water permeate to the outside. This is desirable to reduce downstream transportation costs, since sludge is often an unwanted product and needs to be disposed of. No simple mathematical models for DSP were found in open literature, and so one is proposed and analyzed in this work. Sensitivity and identifiability analysis are carried out in order to select the best parameter set for future parameter estimation.