DYNAMICS OF MAGNETOPHORETIC SEPARATION OF A SUSPENSION 
OF SLIGHTLY MAGNETIC MICROPARTICLES IN A HIGH-GRADIENT FIELD
OF A MAGNETIZED ROD

A. M. Zholud' and B. É. Kashevskii

UDC 577.3

A macroscopic model of the process of magnetophoretic separation 
of slightly magnetic particles from a suspension under the action 
of a high-gradient magnetic field with account for the particle size 
is proposed. The mechanisms of separation of dia- and paramagnetic 
particles from a narrow fluid layer in an inhomogeneous field of a 
magnetized rod have been investigated.

Keywords: magnetophoresis, high-gradient magnetic 
separation, computational modeling. 

A. V. Luikov Heat and Mass Transfer Institute, National Academy 
of Sciences of Belarus, 15 P. Brovka Str., Minsk, 220072, Belarus. 
Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 82, No. 2, pp. 
221-226, March-April, 2009. Original article submitted March 
18, 2008.