Solid-liquid separation in aquatic systems

O Melia, C. R. (1994) From Algae to Aquifers Solid-Liquid Separation in Aquatic Systems. In Aquatic Chemistry, C. P. Huang et al., Eds., American Chemical Society, Washington, DC. 

Interfacial chemistry and system hydrodynamics control the aggregation, deposition, and separation of particles and particle-reactive substances in natural aquatic environments and in many technological systems. Hydrodynamics (particle transport) are particularly sensitive to particle size and size distribution colloidal stability is usually determined by the presence of macromolecular natural organic substances. Recent theoretical and experimental studies of the effects of these two classes of variables on solid-liquid separation in aquatic systems are presented and discussed. 

This chapter was written with three objectives (1) to review the chemical aspects of particle-particle interactions in aquatic systems (2) similarly, to review physical or hydrodynamic characteristics of these interactions and (3) on the basis of this information, to speculate about solid-liquid separation in... 

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