The development and application of CFD models for water treatment flocculators

J Bridgeman, B Jefferson, SA Parsons - Advances in Engineering Software, 2010 - Elsevier
… into larger aggregates or flocs, with the rate of growth governed by the rate of inter-particle
collisions. Flocs are mass fractal objects whose density approximates to that of water [8], but is …

Investigating the characteristic strength of flocs formed from crude and purified Hibiscus extracts in water treatment

AN Jones, J Bridgeman - Water research, 2016 - Elsevier
… However, to achieve satisfactory treatment, flocs must … and density of the flocs formed.
Previous work has observed that smaller flocs are more likely to resist rupture than larger flocs but …

Size and density of flocculated sludge flocs

HJ Wen, CI Liu, DJ Lee - … of Environmental Science & Health Part A, 1997 - Taylor & Francis
… ABSTRACT The size and density of cationic polymer … Floc size and floc density are
both a strong function of the polymer dose and the solution pH, however, the floc size/density

Developments of high rate dissolved air flotation for drinking water treatment

JK Edzwald - Journal of Water Supply: Research and Technology …, 2007 - iwaponline.com
… of flocculation on floc density and floc number concentration for a range of fractal dimensions.
While floc density is highly dependent on the extent of flocculation (floc size compared to …

Dissolved air flotation in drinking water treatment

JK Edzwald - Interface Science and Technology, 2006 - Elsevier
… to flocs greater than 50 μm. For example, for 100 μm floc or d f /d b = 1, the density … If
we limit one bubble attachment to 200 μm flocs or d f /d b = 2, then the density difference is …

A review of floc strength and breakage

P Jarvis, B Jefferson, J Gregory, SA Parsons - Water research, 2005 - Elsevier
… 3 v 1 / 4 , where σ is the floc strength (N m −2 ); ρ w is the density of water (kg m −3 ); ε is the
… For water treatment flocs that are generally dominated by non-living chemical constituents, …

Settling characteristics of problem algae in the water treatment process

SK Choi, JY Lee, DY Kwon, KJ Cho - Water Science and …, 2006 - iwaponline.com
… Our research who were centred on the algal density and … to be a problem in water treatment
processes in Korea. Changes in … To determine removal rates of the algal flocs in the settling …

Characterization of floc size, strength and structure in various aluminum coagulants treatment

Y Wang, BY Gao, XM Xu, WY Xu, GY Xu - Journal of colloid and interface …, 2009 - Elsevier
water and wastewater treatment. The most common coagulant used in water and wastewater
treatment … It has been taken into consideration that the flocs properties, such as density and …

… performance and flocs properties using dual-coagulation of polyaluminum chloride and compound bioflocculant in low temperature surface water treatment

X Huang, B Gao, Q Yue, Y Wang, Q Li, S Zhao… - Chemical engineering …, 2013 - Elsevier
flocs settled faster than small flocs with same density [14]. Flocs breakage is unavoidable
in water treatment works, especially in regions of high shear rate [1], which means that flocs

Experimental analysis of floc size distribution and hydrodynamics in a jar-test

D Bouyer, A Line, A Cockx, Z Do-Quang - Chemical Engineering Research …, 2001 - Elsevier
… coagulation- occulation in drinking water treatment units. This study … In this study, water quality
(pH) and coagulant (both type and … particles from Dantec (density 1.4, 10 mm < d< 30 mm). …