The objective of this research was the economic analysis of two different methods for the clarification of sugarcane juice. The first method was the method of using 700 ppm of CaO (final pH=7.9) and 1 ppm of Separan flocculant which previouly was being used. The other method was using 500 ppm of CaO (final pH=7.4) and 3 ppm of Separan flocculant. This study was carried out on an industrial scal...

The reproducibility of settling tests performed on a simple, portable laboratory settling kit has been evaluated statistically and found to be acceptable. A range of partially hydrolysed polyacrylamide flocculants, having differing degrees of hydrolysis, was tested and the optimum degree of hydrolysis for Mount Edgecombe juices was found to lie between 45 and 50 %. Introduction The clarificatio...

The speciation distribution, physico-chemical properties of coagulants, and principles for their further species transformation under various water and wastewater treatment conditions are of paramount importance in coagulation processes. In this paper, the effect of various factors on the speciation transformation of typical inorganic polymer flocculants (IPFs)–polyaluminum chloride (PACl) was ...

Lithium has become a metal of enormous interest worldwide. The extensive use recharge-able batteries for range applications pushed rapid growth in demand lithium carbonate. This compound is produced by crystallization, reaction with chloride (in solution) and adding sodium Low sedimentation rates the evaporation pools present problem crystallization process. For this reason, work, mineral sedim...

the studies report the synthesis of novel graft copolymer of oatmeal. polymethyl methacrylate grafting was carried out on oatmeal backbone via ‘microwave assisted’ approach. the graft copolymers were optimized by varying monomer and can concentration. the synthesized graft copolymers were characterized by intrinsic viscosity, ftir, tga, sem, elemental analysis, number average molecular weight a...