Innovative enhancement of the design and precision of the capillary suction time testing device

Water Environment Research

Volumn 81, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2344-2352

  Sawalha, Ola ^a   Scholz, Miklas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Capillary suction time test; Dewatering testing; Product development; Synthetic sludge; Wastewater

Indexed keywords

PRODUCT DESIGN; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; SEALANTS; WASTEWATER;

CAPILLARY SUCTION TIME; COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; SPECIFIC RESISTANCE TO FILTRATION; SYNTHETIC SLUDGE; TESTING DEVICE;

TESTING;

SEALANT;

CAPILLARY PRESSURE; DEWATERING; FILTRATION; INNOVATION; SLUDGE; WASTEWATER;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CAPILLARY SUCTION TIME; DEVICE; FILTRATION; FLOW KINETICS; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SLUDGE; SLUDGE DEWATERING; SUCTION; TURBIDITY; VISCOSITY; WASTE WATER; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; SEWAGE; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRAFILTRATION;

CAPILLARITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; SEWAGE; ULTRAFILTRATION; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID;

EID: 73949154403     PISSN: 10614303     EISSN: 15547531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2175/106143009X407276     Document Type: Article

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