Research Article
Flocculation Performance and Kinetics of Magnetic Polyacrylamide Microsphere under Different Magnetic Field Strengths
Table 1
The flocculation rate constant for diatomite suspensions with various flocculants.
| | Flocculant | MCPAM | CPAM |
| | Electric filed strength (Gauss) | 1000 | 500 | 0 | 1000 | | Transmittance (%, t = 40 s) | 98.96 | 93.68 | 90.32 | 85.62 | | Transmittance (%, t = 100 s) | 99.65 | 97.54 | 95.14 | 94.75 | | Effective density range (kgm−3) | 10–252 | — | — | 7–226 | | Floc size range (μm) | 48–724 | — | — | 40–549 | | k (×10−11 s−1) | 6.16 | — | — | 25.81 | | R2 | 0.97 | — | — | 0.90 |
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