Filtration

Techniqu
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What is filtration technique? & how does it work?

● Filtration is the kind of separation technique

that is used to separate insoluble solids from
the liquid in a liquid-solid mixture.

This is how filtration technique works:

1. Suspension is passed through the filter paper
the filter paper has tiny pores.
2. The filter paper that has tiny pores allows only
tiny liquid particles can go through trapping
the larger solids particles. The solid particles
trapped in the filter paper is called residue.
3. The liquid that passes through is called
filtrate.
Uses of filtration technique

● coffee maker

1. Filter paper is placed in the filter cone.

2. Water is poured into the filter cone
3. The filter paper separates the ground coffee
from the liquid coffee.
Uses of Filtration Technique

Water treatment : Water collected from

reservoirs is purified before it can be used.

1. Chemicals are used to kill the germs and

bacteria in the raw water from the
reservoirs.
2. The sand beds filter the water sand beds
contain different grains of sands.
3. Sand particles and solid impurities are
removed from the water.
Uses of filtration technique