“…Moreover, a viscous drag force acts on the particle moving under a magnetic field in the opposite direction, which is given by the Stokes equation (8) where is the liquid viscosity, is the relative velocity of the moving particle, and is the particle radius. By assuming that the liquid flow is laminar with a uniform velocity of containing a low particle concentration, and the gradient of the magnetic flux density in the vicinity of the magnetically saturated ferromagnetic wires in the matrix of the magnetic filter is , the ratio of to can, therefore, be written by (9) The characteristic velocity, so-called magnetic velocity, can be obtained as follows from the balance of the magnetization and drag forces acting on the particle, i.e., : The magnetic filter performance can be calculated by taking account of the ratio of the number of escaping particles to the number of particles entering into the filter , that is (11) Then, the ratio of escaping particles to particles entering into the magnetic filter may be obtained by the following equation [10], [14]- [16]: (12) where is the normalized filter length defined by (13) Based on the characterization of the applied flow and the type of the matrix of the magnetic filter, the most important given formula for the filter efficiency were classified in Table I. Following Watson, Clarkson and Kelland developed a model based on the balance equation between magnetic, hydrodynamic, gravitational, and inertial forces over each increment in a piecewise linear path, as shown in Fig. 5.…”