Investigation of the flocculation of colloidal suspensions by controlling adsorbed layer microstructure and population balance modelling

Chemical Engineering Research and Design

Volumn 83, Issue 7 A, 2005, Pages 905-914

  Somasundaran, P ^a   Runkana, V ^a,b  

^a School of Engineering and Applied Science   (United States)

^b TATA RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT AND DESIGN CENTRE   (India)

Author keywords

Colloidal suspensions; Conformation; Flocculation; Polymer; Population balance modelling; Surface forces

Indexed keywords

COLLOIDS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ELECTROLYTES; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FLUORESCENCE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROSTRUCTURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE; POLYMERS; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS); TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

ABSORBING POLYMERS; COLLOIDAL SUSPENSIONS; ELECTROLYTE CONCENTRATIONS; SURFACE FORCES;

FLOCCULATION;

FLOCCULATION;

EID: 22744458129     PISSN: 02638762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1205/cherd.04345     Document Type: Article

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