Abstract: A process mechanically breaks colloidal suspension bonds with the surrounding fluids through high energy impact with a stationary plate or a colliding fluid stream. The fluid with a colloidal suspension is pumped through one or more ?? to 3? nozzles to collide with either a stationary plate in an impact chamber at high velocity, another similar or different fluid stream, or both another fluid stream and an impact plate. The process breaks the bonds maintaining the colloidal suspension, disassociates these materials, and allows for gravity or chemical separation of the previously colloidal particles from the fluid. The process can separate colloidal particles from a liquid medium through pressurization followed by high energy impact and rapid release.