Macroscopic dynamics of flocculated colloidal suspensions

Abstract

The macroscopic dynamics of strongly flocculated colloidal suspensions are of both fundamental interest and practical significance across a range of applications from soil mechanics to solid-liquid separation. Over 30 years ago, Buscall and White [. Buscall, R., White, L.R., 1987. The consolidation of concentrated suspensions. Part 1. The theory of sedimentation, Journal of the Chemical Society: Faraday Transactions I 83 (3), 873-891] proposed a one-dimensional (1D) theory of sedimentation and consolidation of such suspensions, which spawned suspension characterization tools and process modeling techniques to successfully predict 1D separation behavior. However, many applications such as con..