Theoretical and experimental investigation of water flow through porous ceramic clay compositewater filter

Fluid Dynamics and Materials Processing

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 373-398

  Plappally, A K ^a,c   Yakub, I ^b,c   Brown, L C ^a   Soboyejo, W O ^b,c   Soboyejo, A B O ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PRISM   (United States)

Author keywords

Multiplicative; Porous ceramic; Volume fraction

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL DATA ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FLOW EXPERIMENTS; HETEROGENEOUS POROUS MEDIA; INDEPENDENT VARIABLES; LOW COSTS; MERCURY INTRUSION POROSIMETRY; POINT-OF-USE; POROUS CERAMICS; ROOM TEMPERATURE; TAP WATER; THEORETICAL APPROACH; WATER FLOWS;

CERAMIC MATERIALS; DATA REDUCTION; FLOW OF WATER; HYDRAULICS; MERCURY (METAL); POROUS MATERIALS; POTABLE WATER; SINTERING; TITRATION; VOLUME FRACTION;

WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 77953726707     PISSN: 1555256X     EISSN: 15552578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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