Mechanisms of pelleting flocculation |
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| Authors: | Mitsuo Yusa |
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| Institution: | Research and Development Center, Ebara-Infilco Co., Ltd., 4720 Fujisawa, Fujisawa-shi, Kanagawa-ken 251 Japan |
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| Abstract: | Basically speaking, flocculation and coagulation should be theoretically treated as a many-body problem. However, such potential energy theories of coagulation as the DLVO theory have been developed as a two-body problem, i.e., interaction between two plates or two particles in an infinite medium. The concept volume fraction of the constituent particles in the floc, i.e., voidage fraction in the floc is excluded from these theories and, therefore, the traditional theories are not applicable to the phenomenon of “pelleting flocculation”.In an effort to formulate a theory of flocculation that leads to pellet-like flocs, three possible mechanisms of flocculation process are involved, i.e., (1) perikinetic flocculation, (2) orthokinetic flocculation, and (3) an additional process of mechanical syneresis. A few hypotheses are also presented, which may become the prelude to a subsequent flocculation theory. |
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