Coagulation and Flocculation

How to ensure clean potable water? Hydrochemistry, colloidal chemistry, physics, plus engineering aspects are combined in this book for practical drinking water treatment. Focusing on coagulation-flocculatios as a key step in this process, it provides principles, optimisation, and efficiency evaluation, broader theoretical background and practical aspects. The book also encompasses physico-chemical properties of water and its composition (including characterisation of the main pollutants to be removed), and fundamentals of colloidal science. The principles of coagulation (destabilisation) and aggregation (flocculation) are described, as well as their optimisation and efficiency evaluation. In addition, the book also deals with, e.g., properties of coagulants, technological arrangements of flocculation (mixing), or methods for the evaluation of aggregate (floc, suspension) properties.