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Kramer, O.J.I. (author)In drinking water treatment plants, multiphase flows are a frequent phenomenon. Examples of such flows are pellet-softening and filter backwashing where liquid-solid fluidisation is applied. A better grasp of these fluidisation processes is needed to be able to determine optimal hydraulic states. In this research, models were developed, and...doctoral thesis 2021
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Kramer, O.J.I. (author), de Moel, P.J. (author), Padding, J.T. (author), Baars, Eric T. (author), Rutten, Sam B. (author), Elarbab, Awad H.E. (author), Hooft, Jos F.M. (author), Boek, Edo S. (author), van der Hoek, J.P. (author)Fluid flow through a bed of solid particles is an important process that occurs in full-scale water treatment operations. The Carman–Kozeny model remains highly popular for estimating the resistance across the bed. It is common practice to use particle shape factors in fixed bed state to match the predicted drag coefficient with experimentally...journal article 2021
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Kramer, O.J.I. (author), Padding, J.T. (author), van Vugt, W.H. (author), de Moel, P.J. (author), Baars, E.T. (author), Boek, E.S. (author), van der Hoek, J.P. (author)A novel effective drag relation for liquid-solid fluidisation is proposed, suitable for application in full-scale installations. This is achieved by presenting new insights related to the influence of the temporal-spatial heterogeneity on the effective hydrodynamic drag for large fluidised systems. While heterogeneous flow behaviour can be...journal article 2020