Separation, solid-liquid slurry pretreatment

This chapter summarizes the solid-liquid separation operations commonly used for the pretreatment of drying operations. We focus on the practical aspects of cake filtration, centrifngal filtration, and mechanical expression. The choice of equipment depends on the objective of the separation, the properties of the slurry, and the scale of prodnction. The details of solid-liquid separation theories are omitted. The reader is referred to the references for further information. 

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