Settling of particles

Solid-liquid Flow of liquids in pipelines/filters Settling of particles in liquid (e.g. rust and sludge)... 

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Settling of particles in fluid, example 17 Shaft work 45... 

As a starting point we can view the ocean as one large reservoir to which materials are continuously added and removed (Fig. 10-17). The major sources of material include rivers and winds, which carry dissolved and particulate materials from the continents to the sea. The major removal process is the formation of marine sediments both by settling of particles through the water column as well as by precipitation of insoluble solid phases. For many ele-... 

The sedimentation process is concerned essentially with the settling of particles and, therefore, bears a relationship with the particle size. Very fine particles settle very slowly and in these situations, in order to speed up the sedimentation process, it becomes necessary to agglomerate the particles into large lumps which settle more rapidly. 

Much less is known about the settling of particles in fluids exhibiting a yield stress. Barnes (39) suggests that this is partly due to the fact that considerable confusion exists in the literature as to whether or not the fluids used in the experiments do have a true yield stress 39. Irrespective of this uncertainty, which usually arises from the inappropriateness of the rheological techniques used for their characterisation, many industrially important materials, notably particulate suspensions, have rheological properties closely approximating to viscoelastic behaviour. 

Finally, there is multiphase transport, which is the transport of more than one phase, usually partially mixed in some fashion. The settling of particles in water or air, the fall of drops, and the rise of bubbles in water are all examples of multiphase transport. Figure 1.3 illustrates three flow helds that represent multiphase transport. 

The weight w represents the cutoff size corresponding to time f, and dW/dt represents the rate of settling of particles smaller than the above cutoff size. 

The settling of particles (Eqs. 23-18 and 23-19) is a directed flux (like the advective flux of Eq. 22-2). It is always directed from the water into the sediments (Fig. 23.3a). 

In what respect can we compare the settling of particles in a lake with the settling of snowflakes in a snowstorm ... 

Bishop (2W), investigating the settling of particles in a liquid, reports two types of particles which settle onto the bottom of the container. The first group includes all those particles of sufficient size to settle the entire height of the suspension. Small particles which have settled only from lower portions of the suspension are also collected. A simple relationship enables the separation of these two categories, once the amount collected-time curve is known. 

The corresponding equation for sedimentation, meaning settling of particles under just gravity is Eq. (8.50). 

Settling of particles less than 0.5 pm is slowed by Brownian motion (random motion of small particles from thermal effects) in the water. Conversely, large sand-sized particles are not affected by viscous forces and typically generate a frontal pressure or wake as they sink. Thus, Stokes law can only apply to particles with Reynolds numbers (Re) that are less than unity. The particle Reynolds number according to Allen (1985) is defined as follows ... 

Several systems may be used such as polymeric thickeners, fine particulate solids such as bentonite clays and oxides or combinations of the latter with polymers (1). The nature and level of the gelling agent required to prevent appreciable settling of particles and formation of hard "cakes" or clays depends on the density difference between disperse phase and medium, volume fraction of the disperse phase and interaction of the antisettling system with particles of the pesticide. 

Fig. 8.10 The Mikropul Sedimentputer. (a) Schematic of the system, (b) The settling of particles causes the center of gravity to shift.

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