he tons of feed required per day
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If it is desired to produce 100 lb/h of the middle cut, calculate the tons of feed required per day?

Transcribed Image Text:Solids are being screened using a Mesh 20 screen followed by a Mesh 48 screen. The particle siz
distribution of the feed, coarse, medium, and fine fractions in dry basis is shown in the table. It i
desired to recover all solids with particles sizes range of -20/48.
Mesh
+3
-3+4
-4+6
-6+8
-8+10
-10+14
-14+20
-20-28
-28-35
-35+48
-48-65
-65+100
-100+150
-150+200
Pan
D, (mm)
6.680
4.699
3.327
2.362
1.651
1.168
0.833
0.589
0.417
0.295
0.208
0.147
0.104
Feed
(wt. %)
0.0000
0.7844
2.7451
5.4902
3.9216
7.0589
7.8432
11.3726
17.6471
18.0393
10.9804
5.4902
5.8824
2.4231
0.3215
Coarse
(wt. %)
0.0000
34.5271
24.1892
11.4865
10.8109
8.4055
5.7973
2.0263
1.7433
0.4595
0.3271
0.1326
0.0689
0.0254
0.0004
Medium
(wt. %)
0.0000
0.2858
0.3143
1.4286
1.6858
2.7123
0.8286
10.7269
23.1429
27.4286
12.1211
9.8572
7.2858
2.1736
0.0085
Fine
(wt. %)
0.0000
0.0001
0.0008
0.0015
0.0021
0.0048
0.0175
5.5421
6.0094
4.1095
31.6729
25.6075
21.9533
4.6585
0.4200
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