Study of particle behaviour in high field magnetic flocculation

A recently developed dynamic theory of magnetic field-induced particle-particle aggregation in suspensoids is further extended in terms of characteristic velocity coefficients in the manner of the inertialess theory of H.G.M.S. This is done by expressing the flocculation process in terms of familiar parameters such as magnetic velocity and capture radius. Hybrid flocculation of diamagnetic-paramagnetic pairs is described. Also demonstrated here is the importance of the suspensoid settling velocity following the occurrence of binary flocculation.