Overview principles

• Electrostatic separation
• Inertial Separation
• Sedimentation
• Brownian Motion
• Diffusion

Three principles which are not shown in the picture below but are discussed on this site are:

• Adsorption
• Cross-flowfiltration
• Depth and surface filtration
• Interception
  

The technologies on this page which are coloured blue, do have a page of their own. The technologies are explained imore detailed on this pages.

The page about applicationareas contains an overview of when which technology should be used.

Overview filtration-subjects

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