dewater

present singular third person dewaters · participle present dewatering · participle past dewatered · past dewatered

1. To remove water from.

   The starting feedstock (i.e., pineapple peel) for producing biochar and activated carbon was collected from a local market (Chienchen district, Kaohsiung, Taiwan). It was first dewatered in the sun and further dried in the air-circulating oven at 105 °C.

   2023 December 6, Chi-Hung Tsai, Wen-Tien Tsai, Li-An Kuo, “Effect of Post-Washing on Textural Characteristics of Carbon Materials Derived from Pineapple Peel Biomass”, in Andrei Victor Sandu, editor, Materials, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, →PMID, →PMCID, archived from the original on 02 Feb 2025

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   In the 20ᵗʰ century, when the mechanical separation of impurities based upon specific gravity separations and the removal of fine coal particles which are difficult to handle and dewater became the technology of choice, the bituminous coal mining industry produced vast quantities of both gob and fines.

   2004, David A. Tillman, N. S. Harding, chapter 3, in Fuels of opportunity: characteristics and uses in combustion systems, →ISBN, page 89

   Synonyms: unwater § Synonyms