Separation of solid-liquid suspensions with ultrasonic acoustic energy

Water Research

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 2543-2549

  Bekker, M C ^a   Meyer, J P ^a   Pretorius, L ^a   Van Der Merwe, D F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Acoustic; Separation; Sound waves; Standing waves; Suspension; Transducer; Ultrasonic

Indexed keywords

COOLING WATER; POWDERS; SEPARATION; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); TALC; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONIC WAVES; WATER;

ULTRASONIC ACOUSTIC ENERGY;

INDUSTRIAL WATER TREATMENT;

COOLING WATER; TALC; WATER;

ACOUSTIC TECHNIQUE; LIQUID-SOLID SEPARATION; SUSPENSION; TALC; WATER;

ARTICLE; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; SUSPENSION; TRANSDUCER; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 0031259735     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0043-1354(97)00088-2     Document Type: Article

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