Introduction to Cake Filtration

This volume on cake filtration consists of three main parts: analytical and experimental, cake filtering experiments. It is intended to introduce engineers and engineering students to the subject of filtration systems.

· Provides a thorough analysis of the current status of research
· Discusses in detail
· Contains outlines of several important and unsolved issues in cake filtration and solid-fluid separation

Chapter 1. Introduction

Part I. Analysis
Chapter 2. The Conventional Theory of Cake Filtration

Chapter 3. Analysis of Cake Filtration: Solutions of the Volume-Averaged Continuity Equations

Chapter 4. Cake Filtration as a Diffusion Process

Chapter 5. Simulation of Cake Formation and Growth

Part II. Experiments and Measurements
Chapter 6. Cake Filtration Experiments

Chapter 7. Cake Property Measurements

Part III. Applications and Extension of Cake Filtration Theories
Chapter 8. Incorporation of Cake Filtration
Principles to the Analysis Solid-Fluid Separation Processes