CH ENGR C125 Quiz: Example Problems
9 Jan 2019
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Name: after graduation, you decide to work for a startup that is working on a novel protein therapeutic for the treatment of arthritis. You are asked to design a new process for the purification of the protein without using a centrifuge to avoid the capital cost associated with the purchase of the centrift,jge. You come up with the flow diagram below. - - - - - - non-continious process (added all at once) Provide justification for your answer based on the diagram: there are three (3) membrane filtration steps in this process. Please clearly indicate your answer in the diagram: your supervisor is ready to trust your design and do a trial run. You carefully set up each membrane and making sure the pressures does not exceed the membrane standards. Your process works according to plan until the last two membrane filtration steps. It appears one of the membranes has cake buildup severely reducing the flux across the membrane.
