Settling behaviour of pellet flocs in pelleting flocculation process: Analysis through operational conditions

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1346-1352

  Zhang, Gang ^a,b   Huang, Ting Lin ^a   Tan, Chi ^a   Li, Zhan Peng ^a   He, Wen Jie ^c   Han, Hong Da ^c   Li, Chen ^a  

^a XI'AN UNIVERSITY OF ARCHITECTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JINAN   (China)

^c Tianjin Waterworks Group Co Ltd   (China)

Author keywords

Flocs blanket; Particle settling velocity; Particle size; Pelleting flocculation; Porosity

Indexed keywords

AGITATION INTENSITY; AGITATION SPEED; DYNAMIC EXPERIMENT; EXPERIMENTAL CONDITIONS; FERRIC FLOCS SLUDGES; FLOCS BLANKET; LOWER DENSITY; OPERATING CONDITION; OPERATIONAL CONDITIONS; OPTIMUM OPERATIONS; PARTICLE SETTLING VELOCITY; PELLET SIZE; PELLETING FLOCCULATION; PELLETING FLOCCULATION BLANKETS; POLYACRYLAMIDES; RAW WATER; SETTLING VELOCITY; UP-FLOW RATES;

FLOCCULATION; ORE PELLETS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; POROSITY; VELOCITY;

PELLETIZING;

POLYACRYLAMIDE;

FLOCCULATION; PARTICLE SIZE; POROSITY; SETTLING VELOCITY; SLUDGE;

ARTICLE; FLOCCULATION; FLOW RATE; PARTICLE SIZE; POROSITY; SLUDGE SETTLING; VELOCITY;

ACRYLIC RESINS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FLOCCULATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PARTICLE SIZE; SEWAGE; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 78649670590     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2010.429     Document Type: Article

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