Wet cake filtration

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This resource guides readers through the entire liquid filtration process, from basic understanding and lab-scale testing to advanced applications and up-scaling. Wet cake filtration is essential in solid-liquid separation, impacting various industries, including wastewater treatment. The integration and necessary pre-treatments within the process chain are crucial for effective results. Drawing on over 40 years of research, this comprehensive work covers all relevant aspects of wet cake filtration. The initial sections discuss fundamental principles, applications, feed stream determination, and filter cake formation. Subsequent chapters explore variations in pre-treatment and process conditions, lab-scale testing, up-scaling, and filter design. Topics such as particle purification, yield maximization, and cake deliquoring are also examined. The role of filter media is emphasized, detailing available structures, selection criteria, pore size characterization through porometry, and innovative functionalities. This book equips engineers with the tools to transition from lab-scale tests to scaled-up processes, covering slurry characterization, pretreatment, and advanced methods like hyperbaric and steam pressure filtration. It also introduces promising new techniques, including gasless cake desaturation. This resource is invaluable for engineers, water chemists, catalytic chemists, food chemists, chemical engineers, biotechnol