WO1989006567A1 - Filter apparatus for filtering a liquid - Google Patents

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WO1989006567A1
WO1989006567A1 PCT/GB1989/000026 GB8900026W WO8906567A1 WO 1989006567 A1 WO1989006567 A1 WO 1989006567A1 GB 8900026 W GB8900026 W GB 8900026W WO 8906567 A1 WO8906567 A1 WO 8906567A1
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Denis Bowes Verity
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
    • B01D—SEPARATION
    • B01D39/00—Filtering material for liquid or gaseous fluids
    • B01D39/02—Loose filtering material, e.g. loose fibres
    • B01D39/04—Organic material, e.g. cellulose, cotton
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
    • B01D—SEPARATION
    • B01D27/00—Cartridge filters of the throw-away type
    • B01D27/04—Cartridge filters of the throw-away type with cartridges made of a piece of unitary material, e.g. filter paper
    • B01D27/06—Cartridge filters of the throw-away type with cartridges made of a piece of unitary material, e.g. filter paper with corrugated, folded or wound material
    • B01D27/07—Cartridge filters of the throw-away type with cartridges made of a piece of unitary material, e.g. filter paper with corrugated, folded or wound material having a coaxial stream through the filtering element
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
    • B01D—SEPARATION
    • B01D39/00—Filtering material for liquid or gaseous fluids
    • B01D39/14—Other self-supporting filtering material ; Other filtering material
    • B01D39/16—Other self-supporting filtering material ; Other filtering material of organic material, e.g. synthetic fibres
    • B01D39/18—Other self-supporting filtering material ; Other filtering material of organic material, e.g. synthetic fibres the material being cellulose or derivatives thereof

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  • the present invention relates to filter apparatus for filtering a liquid.
  • a filtering apparatus of this type conventionally is in the form of a rigid chamber having a liquid inlet and a filtrate outlet and a filtering medium is included in the chamber.
  • This medium often is in the form of a metal mesh, for example in oil filters for internal combustion engines and in recent times a paper filter medium has been proposed.
  • the metal mesh medium can only filter out relatively large particle sizes and the paper filter medium tends to clog extensively.
  • British Patent 2,119,272 discloses a filter for lubricating oil which comprises an axial flow, spirally wound filter element of annular cross-section formed from a icroporous sheet of resin bonded cellulosic fibres derived from sulphated wood pulp, preferably a mixture of soft and hard woods with the fibres preferably oriented in one direction and with the sheet having pores of 5 to 100 microns diameter.
  • a filter for lubricating oil which comprises an axial flow, spirally wound filter element of annular cross-section formed from a icroporous sheet of resin bonded cellulosic fibres derived from sulphated wood pulp, preferably a mixture of soft and hard woods with the fibres preferably oriented in one direction and with the sheet having pores of 5 to 100 microns diameter.
  • British Patent 2,031,296 is similar and shows a spirally wound, axial flow paper filter element demountabl attached to a cast metal filter head which includes an inlet port and an outlet port and a mounting flange.
  • British Patent 2,018,149 is concerned with separating out lymphocytes from a suspension and includes a mass of fibres 2 exhibiting an average fibre diameter of greater than 10 microns but not greater than 60. Again, this does not provide entirely satisfactory results.
  • British Patent 1,301,822 discloses a separator comprising oil and water insoluble porous paper, impregnated both with a cured water in soluble strengthening resin which extends throughout the paper in film form, coating fibres of the paper without substantially altering the porous character of the paper.
  • a fluorochemical is also carried by the fibres of the porous paper, the paper being repellant to oil and sufficiently hydrophillic to be instantaneously wetted by the water.
  • British Patent 752,827 utilizes a filtering medium of small particles of resin impregnated paper.
  • British Patent 682,400 discloses a filter medium of the edge filtration type comprising a pile of annulae or strips of paper made substantially of material having hollow fibres and impregnated with the waterproofing medium.
  • the impregnation with the waterproofing material is carried to an extent sufficient to fill only a small proportion of the hollow fibres to render the paper discs or strips resistant to loss of identity when wetted while enabling the remainder of the hollow fibres to absorb their maximum capacity for water and permit only the other liquid, for example oil, to pass the filter.
  • British Patent 572,256 is concerned with an oil filter in which an inlet pipe is surrounded for almost the whole of its length by a sleeve or tube of paper strip coiled into a tapered spiral and filtering material is arranged in the surrounding container outside the tapered spiral.
  • US-Patent 4,369,110 employs, for use on an internal combustion engine, an oil filter in which the chamber, which is fed via a needle is filled with a packing of discrete fibres.
  • filter apparatus for filtering a liquid
  • said apparatus comprising a rigid chamber having a liquid inlet and a filtrate outlet and a mass of hollow fibres formed as a cross-linked matrix of Alpha cellulose, loosely packed into said chamber, when dry, whereby when the liquid is passed therethrough the matrix will expand to be tightly packed into the chamber.
  • the construction of the present invention can filter out very small particle sizes indeed and can operate for an extended period without becoming significantly clogged.
  • the hollow fibre matrix preferably has a pore size distribution in the range 5nm to 500nm (nanometers) and the walls of the matrix have a density of 0.28 to 0.5 grams per cc when loosely packed dry into the chamber.
  • the hollow fibre matrix being formed of cotton staple fibres.
  • the fibres can be formed into the matrix in a number of different ways, a preferred method of manufacture is to form the fibres into a sheet on a conventional paper making machine and subsequently rolling this sheet up into a cylinder to form the mass.
  • the sheet has a thickness of 0.5 to 2 mm preferably of 1.1 to 1.2 mm.
  • the filter is capable of removing small quantities of P.C.B.s (small polychlorinated biphenyls) by the mechanism of hydrogen bonding.
  • P.C.B.s small polychlorinated biphenyls
  • the filter media quenches free radicals of normal autoxidation it will perform the same function in the free radical degradation of P.C.B.'s and as a result will aid the removal of such materials and intermediaries from the circulating fluids.
  • a distributor is associated with the liquid inlet to cause the liquid to be filtered to be distributed over a wide surface area of the mass. This can be achieved, for example, by feeding the liquid to be filtered over a substantial surface area of one axial end of the cylindrical mass.
  • the chamber may be cylindrical and have an inlet feed tube passing axially through the centre of the mass, an inlet gallery being formed between one axial end of the mass and an end wall of the chamber, and the distributor may be arranged to project a plurality of streams of liquid to be filtered against the end wall from which it is deflected to flow back onto the one axial end of the mass.
  • the feed may be from said one axial end and a rose or perforated plate may be provided to produce the distribution.
  • the reverse ability could be provided by silanising the filtering medium with a silane compound, such as a halogen alkyl silane, or an alkylsilyl ester.
  • a silane compound such as a halogen alkyl silane, or an alkylsilyl ester.
  • This produces a matrix which converts the surface into a non-hydrogen bonding form which thus rejects polar materials and can therefore be successfully used for the fine filtration of water glycol and other fire-resistant fluids.
  • the Alpha cellulose again removes very fine particles both metallic and non-metallic, can remove oxidised acid precursor materials, inorganic acids and basic compounds in the presence of water and organic acids.
  • the apparatus illustrated includes a rigid chamber indicated by the general reference numeral 10 having a circular lower end wall 12, a cylindrical peripheral wall 14 and a conical end wall 16.
  • the lower end wall 12 is provided with a conventional threaded spigot 18 for connection to a receptacle for the filtrate from the apparatus.
  • a feed tube 20 Co-axially mounted within the spigot is a feed tube 20 provided at its upper end with a distributor 22 having a plurality of discharge apertures 24.
  • a supporting grid indicated by bar 26 is mounted above the lower end wall 12 to define therebelow an outlet gallery 28.
  • a filtering medium 30 Packed within the chamber 10 is a filtering medium 30.
  • This medium is in the form of a mass of hollow cross-linked matrix Alpha cellulose fibres the walls of which have a pore size distribution in the range 5 nm to 500 nm (nanometers) and a fibre matrix density of 0.28 to 0.5 grams per cc. These fibres are loosely packed into the chamber and this is preferably achieved by forming the fibres, which may be cotton staple fibres, into a sheet on a conventional paper making machine to have a thickness of 0.5 to 2 mm, preferably of 1.1 to 1.2 mm. The sheet is then rolled up into a cylindrical roll and inserted into the chamber 14. In this way an upper surface 32 and a lower surface 34 of the filter mass are provided which are annular in shape.

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Abstract

Filter apparatus for filtering a liquid, the apparatus comprising a rigid chamber (10) having a liquid inlet (20) and a filtrate outlet (18), a mass (30) of hollow fibre cross-linked matrix of Alpha cellulose is loosely packed into the chamber, when dry, whereby when the liquid is passed therethrough the matrix will expand to be tightly packed into the chamber. The fibres are preferably cotton staple fibres.

Description

FI TER APPARATUS FOR FILTERING A LIQUID
The present invention relates to filter apparatus for filtering a liquid.
A filtering apparatus of this type conventionally is in the form of a rigid chamber having a liquid inlet and a filtrate outlet and a filtering medium is included in the chamber. This medium often is in the form of a metal mesh, for example in oil filters for internal combustion engines and in recent times a paper filter medium has been proposed. The metal mesh medium can only filter out relatively large particle sizes and the paper filter medium tends to clog extensively.
British Patent 2,119,272 discloses a filter for lubricating oil which comprises an axial flow, spirally wound filter element of annular cross-section formed from a icroporous sheet of resin bonded cellulosic fibres derived from sulphated wood pulp, preferably a mixture of soft and hard woods with the fibres preferably oriented in one direction and with the sheet having pores of 5 to 100 microns diameter. Such a structure has certain advantages over the conventional oil filter but still does not enable the removal of very small particle sizes.
British Patent 2,031,296 is similar and shows a spirally wound, axial flow paper filter element demountabl attached to a cast metal filter head which includes an inlet port and an outlet port and a mounting flange. British Patent 2,018,149 is concerned with separating out lymphocytes from a suspension and includes a mass of fibres 2 exhibiting an average fibre diameter of greater than 10 microns but not greater than 60. Again, this does not provide entirely satisfactory results.
British Patent 1,301,822 discloses a separator comprising oil and water insoluble porous paper, impregnated both with a cured water in soluble strengthening resin which extends throughout the paper in film form, coating fibres of the paper without substantially altering the porous character of the paper. A fluorochemical is also carried by the fibres of the porous paper, the paper being repellant to oil and sufficiently hydrophillic to be instantaneously wetted by the water. British Patent 752,827 utilizes a filtering medium of small particles of resin impregnated paper.
British Patent 682,400 discloses a filter medium of the edge filtration type comprising a pile of annulae or strips of paper made substantially of material having hollow fibres and impregnated with the waterproofing medium. The impregnation with the waterproofing material is carried to an extent sufficient to fill only a small proportion of the hollow fibres to render the paper discs or strips resistant to loss of identity when wetted while enabling the remainder of the hollow fibres to absorb their maximum capacity for water and permit only the other liquid, for example oil, to pass the filter. British Patent 572,256 is concerned with an oil filter in which an inlet pipe is surrounded for almost the whole of its length by a sleeve or tube of paper strip coiled into a tapered spiral and filtering material is arranged in the surrounding container outside the tapered spiral.
US-Patent 4,369,110 employs, for use on an internal combustion engine, an oil filter in which the chamber, which is fed via a needle is filled with a packing of discrete fibres.
None of these structures produces an adequate cleaning or filtering out of small particles at a low cost.
It is now proposed, according to the present invention, to provide filter apparatus for filtering a liquid, said apparatus comprising a rigid chamber having a liquid inlet and a filtrate outlet and a mass of hollow fibres formed as a cross-linked matrix of Alpha cellulose, loosely packed into said chamber, when dry, whereby when the liquid is passed therethrough the matrix will expand to be tightly packed into the chamber.
The construction of the present invention can filter out very small particle sizes indeed and can operate for an extended period without becoming significantly clogged.
It has been found that the use of alpha cellulose as the filtering medium gives these much improved results. The hollow fibre matrix preferably has a pore size distribution in the range 5nm to 500nm (nanometers) and the walls of the matrix have a density of 0.28 to 0.5 grams per cc when loosely packed dry into the chamber.
This can be achieved by the hollow fibre matrix being formed of cotton staple fibres. Although it is contemplated that the fibres can be formed into the matrix in a number of different ways, a preferred method of manufacture is to form the fibres into a sheet on a conventional paper making machine and subsequently rolling this sheet up into a cylinder to form the mass. Advantageously the sheet has a thickness of 0.5 to 2 mm preferably of 1.1 to 1.2 mm.
The filter is capable of removing small quantities of P.C.B.s (small polychlorinated biphenyls) by the mechanism of hydrogen bonding. The less chlorinated P.C.B.'s have a sufficient degree of aromaticity to create hydrogen bonds with the surface of the filter media and therefore will be retained and effectively removed from the fluid. It is these lower chlorinated materials which tend to be those with the highest carcinogenic properties. P.C.B.'s will also be degraded by the usual free radical mechanism which applies in most chemical reactions. In tne same way that the filter media quenches free radicals of normal autoxidation it will perform the same function in the free radical degradation of P.C.B.'s and as a result will aid the removal of such materials and intermediaries from the circulating fluids.
In a preferred construction a distributor is associated with the liquid inlet to cause the liquid to be filtered to be distributed over a wide surface area of the mass. This can be achieved, for example, by feeding the liquid to be filtered over a substantial surface area of one axial end of the cylindrical mass. The chamber may be cylindrical and have an inlet feed tube passing axially through the centre of the mass, an inlet gallery being formed between one axial end of the mass and an end wall of the chamber, and the distributor may be arranged to project a plurality of streams of liquid to be filtered against the end wall from which it is deflected to flow back onto the one axial end of the mass.
Other means may be provided for distributing the liquid to be filtered over the axial end. For example the feed may be from said one axial end and a rose or perforated plate may be provided to produce the distribution.
Advantageously means are provided to support the mass whereby an outlet gallery is formed between the other axial end of the mass and the other end wall of the chamber, the filtrate outlet being connected to the outlet gallery. One of the advantages of using a matrix formed of loosely packed Alpha cellulose is the high hydrogen bonding ability which enables adsorption to take place with polar material in its natural state. It has been found that when a compacted matrix of Alpha cellulose material is formed under controlled conditions particularly advantageous properties are provided as a filter medium for hydrocarbon fluids. It has been found that this can greatly extend tne life of hydrocarbon oils as used in machinery. On fuels such as diesel oils, it has been found that such a filter prevents the precipitation of amorphous waxes by conversion into micro-crystaline forms which prevents blockage of the injectors and connecting lines, etc. This can be found to be achieved even in temperatures as low as -12°C.
It is also contemplated that the reverse ability could be provided by silanising the filtering medium with a silane compound, such as a halogen alkyl silane, or an alkylsilyl ester. This produces a matrix which converts the surface into a non-hydrogen bonding form which thus rejects polar materials and can therefore be successfully used for the fine filtration of water glycol and other fire-resistant fluids. In its unsilanised state it has been found that the Alpha cellulose again removes very fine particles both metallic and non-metallic, can remove oxidised acid precursor materials, inorganic acids and basic compounds in the presence of water and organic acids. In order that the present invention may more readily be understood, the following description is given, merely by way of example, reference being made to the accompanying drawing in which the sole figure is a schematic cross-section of one embodiment of apparatus according to the invention.
The apparatus illustrated includes a rigid chamber indicated by the general reference numeral 10 having a circular lower end wall 12, a cylindrical peripheral wall 14 and a conical end wall 16. The lower end wall 12 is provided with a conventional threaded spigot 18 for connection to a receptacle for the filtrate from the apparatus. Co-axially mounted within the spigot is a feed tube 20 provided at its upper end with a distributor 22 having a plurality of discharge apertures 24.
A supporting grid indicated by bar 26 is mounted above the lower end wall 12 to define therebelow an outlet gallery 28.
Packed within the chamber 10 is a filtering medium 30. This medium is in the form of a mass of hollow cross-linked matrix Alpha cellulose fibres the walls of which have a pore size distribution in the range 5 nm to 500 nm (nanometers) and a fibre matrix density of 0.28 to 0.5 grams per cc. These fibres are loosely packed into the chamber and this is preferably achieved by forming the fibres, which may be cotton staple fibres, into a sheet on a conventional paper making machine to have a thickness of 0.5 to 2 mm, preferably of 1.1 to 1.2 mm. The sheet is then rolled up into a cylindrical roll and inserted into the chamber 14. In this way an upper surface 32 and a lower surface 34 of the filter mass are provided which are annular in shape.
When the apparatus described is fitted to a source of liquid to be filtered, this liquid passes up through the feed tube 20 and is sprayed outwardly through the apertures 24 against the conical wall 16. It is deflected downwardly by this wall to fall relatively evenly over the upper surface 32 of the mass 30. As the liquid flows down, the fibres of the matrix immediately expand so that they become tightly packed in the chamber 10. It has been found that these can filter out particle sizes as low as 1 micron and that a very small pressure drop indeed is experienced as the liquid flows downwardly. There is a certain measure of passage of the liquid between the convolutions, but the liquid finds its own path through the mass which gradually swells up to provide the necessary homogenious filtering medium. The liquid flows out into the outlet gallery 28 and thence through apertures 34 into the outlet spigot 18.

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1. Filter apparatus for filtering a liquid, said apparatus comprising a rigid chamber having a liquid inlet and a filtrate outlet and a mass of hollow fibres formed as a cross-linked matrix of Alpha cellulose, loosely packed into said chamber, when dry, whereby when the liquid is passed therethrough the matrix will expand to be tightly packed into the chamber.
2. Apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the walls of the hollow fibre matrix have a pore size distribution in the range 5 nm to 500 nm (nanometers) .
3. Apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the hollow fibre matrix has a density of 0.28 to 0.5g per cc when loosely packed dry into said chamber.
4. Apparatus as claimed in claim 1 wherein said hollow fibre matrix is formed of cotton staple fibres.
5. Apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said fibres are formed into a sheet on a paper- making machine and said sheet is subsequently rolled into a cylinder to form said mass.
6. Apparatus as claimed in claim 5, wherein said sheet has a thickness of 0.5 to 2mm preferably of 1.1 to 1.2 mm.
7. Apparatus as claimed in claim 1 and further comprising a distributor associated with said liquid effective to cause said liquid to be filtered to be distributed oover a wide surface area of said mass.
8. Apparatus as claimed in claim 7, wherein said fibres are formed into a sheet on a paper making machine and said sheet is subsequently rolled into a cylinder to form said mass, and wherein said distributor feeds said liquid to be filtered over a substantial surface area of one axial end of said cylindrical mass.
9. Apparatus as claimed in claim 8, wherein said chamber is cylindrical and further comprising an inlet feed tube passing axially through the centre of said mass, an inlet gallery formed between one axial end of the mass and an end wall of the chamber, and wherein said distributor is arranged to project a plurality of streams of liquid to be filtered against said end wall from which it is deflected to flow back onto said one axial end of the mass.
10. Apparatus as claimed in claim 9, and further comprising means to support the mass whereby an outlet gallery is formed between the other axial end of the mass and the other end wall of the chamber, the filter outlet being connected to said outlet gallery.
11. Apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said matrix is silanised.
12. Apparatus as claimed in claim 11, wherein said matrix is silanised by treating with a halogen alkyl silane or an alkylsilyl ester.
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