Gravitational drainage of compressible organic materials

AIChE Journal

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3099-3108

  Christensen, Morten Lykkegaard ^a   Dominiak, Dominik Marek ^a   Nielsen, Per Halkjær ^a   Keiding, Kristian ^a   Sedin, Maria ^b  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Dewatering; Manure; Settling; Sludge; Specific cake resistance

Indexed keywords

CAKE COMPRESSION; CAKE RESISTANCE; DRAINAGE SIMULATION; DRY MATTER CONTENT; DRY MATTERS; FEED CONCENTRATION; FILTRATION RESISTANCE; INPUT PARAMETER; NEW EXPERIMENTAL METHOD; ORGANIC MATERIALS; ORGANIC WASTES; PARTICLE SUSPENSIONS; SETTLING; SETTLING VELOCITY; SLUDGE; SPECIFIC CAKE RESISTANCES;

COMPRESSIBILITY; DEWATERING; GLUCOSE; MANGANESE OXIDE; MANURES; SEWAGE;

SLURRIES;

EID: 78349292205     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.12222     Document Type: Article

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