Settling
Process by which particulates move towards the bottom of a liquid and form a sediment / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the human activity, see settler. For the audio drama, see The Settling.
Settling is the process by which particulates move towards the bottom of a liquid and form a sediment. Particles that experience a force, either due to gravity or due to centrifugal motion will tend to move in a uniform manner in the direction exerted by that force. For gravity settling, this means that the particles will tend to fall to the bottom of the vessel, forming sludge or slurry at the vessel base. Settling is an important operation in many applications, such as mining, wastewater and drinking water treatment, biological science, space propellant reignition,[1] and scooping.