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Filtration is the process whereby a solid separates from a fluid by making the suspension pass through a porous bed, known as a filter medium. The bed retains the particles while the fluid passes through the filter medium and becomes a filtrate. To establish a flow of filtrate, it is necessary to apply a pressure difference, called a pressure drop, across the filter medium. There are several ways to do this depending on the driving force, for example: (1) gravity, (2) vacuum, (3) applied pressure, (4) vacuum and pressure combined, (5) centrifugal force, and (6) a saturation gradient. Usually the different driving forces require different filtration equipment called filters. Two main dewatering stages are studied, cake formation and dehumidification, which are studied as mono-phase flow and two-phase flow of a fluid through rigid porous medium, respectively. Field variables and constitutive equations are deduced from the chapter on flow in porous media. Methods of filtration, cake porosity, permeability, capillary curves and relative permeabilities are presented. Finally models of continuous filters are developed.
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Concha A., F. (2014). Filtration. In: Solid-Liquid Separation in the Mining Industry. Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 105. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02484-4_9
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