Effluent treatments: Coagulation

摘要

Indistroal waters are clarified to remove turbidity and color from the effluent streams in the textile, paper and other polluting industries. The dictionary meaning of a coagulant is "an agent that induces curdling or congealing. In a water treatment, what it is a chemical that will remove color and turbidity present in a raw water in the form of flocs.Coagulants neutralize the repulsive electrical charges (typically negative) surrounding particles allowing them to "stick together" creating clumps or flocks.