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decantation

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decantation [′dē‚kan′tā·shən]
(engineering)
A method for mechanical dewatering of a wet solid by pouring off the liquid without disturbing underlying sediment or precipitate.


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Plant 1 has sand and charcoal filters and treats water by flocculation, decantation, filtration, and chloramination; plant 2 has only sand filters and employs flocculation, decantation, filtration, oxidation of iron, and chloramination.
Separation of bound from unbound tracer was by magnetic separation and decantation of the supernatant.
BIOX([R]) Module 1 neutralization tanks and counter-current decantation thickeners are expected to be commissioned at the end of January 2007 in time for refractory ore feed in February 2007;
 
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