A review of flocculants as an efficient method for increasing the efficiency of municipal sludge dewatering: Mechanisms, performances, influencing factors and …

M Hyrycz, M Ochowiak, A Krupińska… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Mechanical sludge dewatering is one of the stages of the municipal wastewater treatment
process, which allows the amount of generated sludge and the cost of its transport and …

Water soluble polymer flocculants: synthesis, characterization, and performance assessment

V Vajihinejad, SP Gumfekar… - Macromolecular …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Water soluble polymer flocculants are important constituents of solid–liquid separation units
for the treatment of a variety of process‐affected effluents. The systematic development of a …

Folic acid-functionalized niosomal nanoparticles for selective dual-drug delivery into breast cancer cells: An in-vitro investigation

I Akbarzadeh, MT Yaraki, S Ahmadi, M Chiani… - Advanced Powder …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this study, a folic acid-functionalized niosome was formulated and loaded with letrozole
and curcumin as a promising drug carrier system for chemotherapy of the breast cancer …

[HTML][HTML] Aggregation and breakage dynamics of alumina particles under shear by coupled Computational Fluid Dynamics–Discrete Element Method

L Zeng, GV Franks, E Goudeli - Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2024 - Elsevier
Hypothesis Shear affects simultaneous aggregation and fragmentation of fine particles.
Understanding the effect of shear on the dynamics of particle aggregation and break-up is …

Degradation of Cationic Polyacrylamide Flocculants upon Contact with Metal Surfaces During Rheological Measurements

N Loukili, A Chitanu, L Jossic, M Karrouch… - Journal of Polymers and …, 2024 - Springer
This research shows that cationic polyacrylamide (CPAM) flocculants, widely used in
wastewater treatment, are susceptible to degradation when in contact with various metallic …

Structural investigation of tailings flocculation and consolidation via quantitative 3D dual fluorescence/reflectance confocal microscopy

A Govedarica, EJM Bacca, M Trifkovic - Journal of colloid and interface …, 2020 - Elsevier
Hypothesis Mechanistic understanding of particle-flocculant interactions and its link to the
resulting floc structure is essential for developing tailings treatments with enhanced …

In-situ and real-time aggregation size evolution of copper sulfide precipitates using focused beam reflectance measurement (FBRM)

L Barros, M Gim-Krumm, G Seriche, M Quilaqueo… - Powder Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
The copper sulfide precipitation is a selective and efficient method for the recovery or
removal of metals. However, the suspension behavior, and particularly the aggregation …

[HTML][HTML] Selective aggregation of hematite from quartz using charged polyacrylamides: In-situ sizing

JC Eardley, CA Thomas, GV Franks - Minerals Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
Recovering fine valuable material has been a significant challenge in minerals processing.
This primarily stems from insufficient collision opportunities between fine particles and …

[HTML][HTML] Selective aggregation of fine copper minerals using charged polyacrylamides

RBD de Medeiros, CA Thomas, GV Franks - Colloids and Surfaces A …, 2024 - Elsevier
Selective aggregation can be used to improve the collection of fine valuable mineral
particles often lost in industrial separation processes. This approach might be applicable to …

Contemporary research and developments in the low-toxic chelating reagents for the extraction of non-ferrous and noble metals from poor polymetallic ores and …

TN Matveeva, VV Getman, NK Gromova… - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
An urgent technological, economic and environmental task of mining and metallurgical
enterprises is to involve poor, off-balance and hard-to-beneficiate ores in the technological …