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What is gravity chambers?

What is gravity chambers?

Which is mean of gravity chambers and another what is suspended particulate matter.

Since particles are suspended at a height, a combination of gravity of earth and artificial gravity of the chamber helps to get the particles down on an surface which will then be cleaned and thus getting rid of the particulate matter.

Gravity settling chambers will always be of importance for pre-cleaning of high dust laden gases. They work on the principle of removing dust by reducing the velocity of gas (or) air stream. The gas is directed from the dust generating equipment into the large volume settling chamber, where the velocity drops low enough to let large dust particles drop out by gravity. Dust settling chambers are sometimes equipped with deflectors, to charge the direction of gas flow and so to shorten the settling path of particles, improving collection efficiency. Because of the simple construction, gravity-settling chambers are the lowest in cost, but at the same time also the least effective dust collection devices.

Explanation given by Shreya is correct, But in addition to that the gravity settling chambers are also used to separate the heavy metals and particles from the effluent (waste water generated from the Industry). Which settles in the chambers by gravity only.

Gravity setting chambers are used to take the hard dust particles from the industry . By using this we can remove hard dust particles .
Refrence :--- In Sr. Inter NCERT text books ,chemistry

See for example in thermal power stations we are using ESP (eletrostatic precipitator) for settling down suspended particles in flue gas which basically charged, for uncharged particles gravity setting chambers are used.

What is suspended particulate matter?

Particles having higher density than other particles which can be removed by process called gravity setting.