Separation of Colloidal Particles in a Packed Column using Depletion Forces

Depletion forces were used to separate an equinumber density binary dispersion of 1.5 and 0.82 µm polystyrene sulfate (PS) particles. Experiments consisted of injecting a pulse of a binary dispersion of PS particles into the inlet of a packed bed of 0.5 mm silica collector beads. Prior to injection...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Guzman, Francisco J.
Other Authors: Chemical Engineering
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/34831
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08282012-144921/