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Granular Bed Filters

Part 2. Application and Design

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The suggestion that extraneous solids could be removed from gaseous streams by passage through a bed of particles is to this day regarded by many as novel, if not improbable, despite the fact that the average engineer is well aware of the technology of treating liquid streams by passage through beds of particles for purposes of removing undesirable elements via ion exchange and more simply for removing any suspended solids. The suggestion becomes more acceptable and credible by considering the analogy between the well accepted bag filter, which represents a tortuous path through the interstices in a layer, or bed, of interlaced cylinders (fibers), as opposed to the granular bed which represents a tortuous path through the interstices in a layer of interlaced spherical or angular shapes.

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Zenz, F.A. (1997). Granular Bed Filters. In: Fayed, M.E., Otten, L. (eds) Handbook of Powder Science & Technology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6373-0_18

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