Coagulation and Flocculation

This book is a practical reference for those working with the stabilization and the destabilization of fine solid dispersions. Omitting any unchanged chapters from the first edition, the new edition features only chapters that are completely updated, rewritten, and expanded upon to reflect a decade of the latest advances in the field. New material includes: electrical double layer, surface ionization, and surface heterogeneity; thin liquid films; clay mineral intracrystalline reactions and gelation; homopolymers and their effect on colloid stability; the stability of suspensions in the presence of surfactants, polymers, and mixtures; and the flocculation and dewatering of fine-particle suspensions.

Hansjoachim Stechemesser, Bohulav Dobiáš

Thermodynamics of Adsorption from Solution; Surface Charge and Surface Potential Coagulation Kinetics; Structure Formation in Dispersed Systems Ion Adsorption on Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Surfaces Fundamentals of Homopolymers at Interfaces and Their Effect on Colloid Stability; Flotation as a Heterocoagulation Process: Possibilities of Calculation the Probability of the Microprocesses, Rupture of the Intervening Thin Liquid Film and Progress in Modelling of the Overall Process; From Clay Mineral Crystals to Colloidal Clay Mineral DispersionsStabilization of Aqueous Powder Suspensions in the Processing of Ceramic Materials; Surfactant Adsorption and Dispersion Stability in Mineral Flotation; Flocculation and Dispersion of Colloidal Suspensions by Polymers and Surfactants: Experimental and Modeling Studies; Flocculation and Dewatering of Fine-Particle Suspensions